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Hi Rick. I know. But I guess the main issue is that the process of quantization and dithering should result in similar frames. Octree is for sure quite good for still images but it may not work optimal for animated frames.

Thanks Pixey. This version has been modified in 2019 to use octree. So I would prefer the v0.11.

Looking to the history, I guess this would be perfect.

I'm looking for an ImAGIF.FileType dll version <= 0.12. You may know that I lost access to all my sources in 2015. When I became active again on this forum (beginning of 2021) there was just a modified version available which used already octree to quantize colors (my versions used the old built-in quantizer of paint.net). There are issues with all these octree versions and I would like to compare the output of v1.5 with an older version of the plugin. I.e loading Pixeys Aquarium sig (5,8 MB) and resaving creates a 19 MB file with v1.50. I already fixed some issues and could reduce the output to 10 MB and I have an idea what's going on. But it would be easier to first compare it with the old implementation. So if someone has an older dll archived and could provide it to me then I could recompile it and check for differences.

I can confirm that load and save of options no longer works in various plugins based on OptionBasedLibrary. This is a library issue the plugins themself are not involved. I can not update something there untile OptionBasedLibrary itself has been updated to 4.3.3. This may take some time. Load and save just serialize/deserialize the EffectToken (the dialog options) to XML. The library can do this w/o knowing the content of the EffectToken.

Color Harmonies works for me in 4.3.3 and 4.3.3 (if the OptionBasedLibrary files are in the Effects folder). The development of OptionBasedLibrary is halted in the moment until I get a better idea how to fulfill the new rules in an optimized way. So I'm updating PropertyBased file types in my spare time.

OK I needed a break and used it to do the thumbnail installer. Hope it's easier now (and works as expected ,-) )

Thanks guys.

Hi @BajaBrainBlast did you install paint.net 4.3.2? Anyway you should avoid to fix issues in registry as long as you have not a quite good idea what you are doing.

Looks like VS 2019 only supports preview versions of net6 but not the release one (and they are not compatible). I hope that I can install VS 2019 and VS 2022 side-by-side without destroying my installation. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/install-visual-studio-versions-side-by-side Did someone already tried this?

I had in mind that there was a possibility to use metadata of files but had no idea that it was layer based. The question would be which file format supports what. I.e. I know there is XMP support for GIF but does MS really supports this extension? Who knows. Anyway the comment feature would allow users to enter and edit information. BTW: If Effect plugins could store some information in a layer using their name as a key then we could easily create an editable text plugin which doesn't depend on tricks like storing the information in the pixels (which is quite clever). Just as a temporary solution until we get paint.net 5 😉

You should place the folder somewhere in the user space, not on a removable disk and not in a system folder with admin rights. What's the output of the regasm tool? Anyway I will create a small application to install/uninstall these thumbnail files (in the moment there are already 12 on my side) in a proposed location. Shouldn't be to complex. But I like to close the implementation of the apng format first. The save part of apng is now promised for some years and still not available. I would also prefer that the normal gif, png, webp thumbnails should show an indication if they are containing an animation. Id did this for bmp containing this bmrl format. I will do the installer before I'm looking to improve the speed creating the frames of animations. There are some parts of the implementation where multiple tasks are possible. And the code can be used in all implementations. Trying to save your aquarium takes much too long an my pc.

Quite often I like to add some text or a separator line to the UI. So a control which just provides a DisplayName and a Description but no value would help. Maybe if DisplayName and Description is empty then a solid separator line could be drawn.

Added a hint regarding paint.net 4.3.2 to the first page.

Release v1.5 (16.11.2021) - Fixed a bug regarding the offset of sub frames (introduced in 0.13.2) - Added simple preview Moved the examples to a separate zip.

Personally I would increase the major version number just because it's easier to tell users that version 5 no longer supports Windows 7 (instead to mention version 4.4). But it's not really important.

I'm really happy about the dark sliders in dark theme. 🙂 I could no longer reproduce the drawing artifacts in footnotes and links.

Added .agif shell extension to the first post. It provides thumbnail support for the file type .agif in Windows Explorer. I'm not able to delete really old stuff, so I can not upload 'ImAPNG.FileType' and 'ImAPNG.Thumbnail' in the moment...

I experienced the same issue. For me it looks like that it takes a while after deleting some files before the remaining space is updated in the forum software.

Sometimes I like to add a comment to a layer but do not like to add it to the name. So an additional layer property would help. I'm not 100% sure if a change in the serialized part of pdn files would have no impact to old pdn versions. Rick knows this ,-) The comment should allow multiple lines and the the UI should support a multiline control in the layer properties dialog. I guess there is no need to show the comment in the layers panel (maybe just an indicator icon that there is a comment). I would support this feature in the animated image file formats to place the animation commands in the comment property (and no longer after the separator // in the layer name).

You may use 'Spirit Level' Photo Effect Plugin to rotate the image. Top right is an icon which allows you to copy the uncutted rotated image to the clipboard. You can then paste the result into a new image.

In VisualStudio you can select EffectEnvironmentParameters and press F12.

Thanks @pascal

Since paint.net 4.2.16 DocumentResolution in the EffectEnvironmentParameters class contains the resolution of a document. But plugins are not able to change the dimension of a layer (or the image). If you like to scale the pixels of the whole image and keep the current dpi value then you can do this via Image->Canvas Size. If you like to scale the dpi value and keep the pixels then set the new dpi value in Image->Resize. The status bar provides you information about the size of the selection. You can change its unit via the small popup in the status bar (px, cm, in).

I'm on the way to finish the save part of apng. The commands are similar to the ones in agif but enhanced to support the alpha channel. Is there also a wish for awebp and aavif? 😉