Red ochre

Perhaps 'Alpha mask' could be added to the layer blend options? Just applying the transparency of one layer to the layer below - ignoring colour values? It would save time having to use the (brilliant) plugin and the magic wand doesn't seem to copy transparency.

Red ochre plug-in pack Please use the v10 plugin pack. It has updated (better) versions of these plugins, an installer for Pdn4 or a zipped pack for Pdn3.5.11 and those who prefer 'manually' installing. Here: Red ochre plugin pack v10 There are links to effects not yet in the pack at the bottom of this post. NOTE: These should all work for both Pdn 3.5.11 AND Pdn 4.0.3+ I have included sample images and keywords to use with the 'Plugin Browser' here: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/29308-the-plugin-browser/ ALSO: I have improved some of them and changed the .dll name of some. You may want to delete these old .dlls if not automatically overwritten. These are the plugins: Alpha-threshold - Useful for smoothly adjusting transparency gradients. under: Effects/Transparency .dll name = AlphaThreshold Bevel Object Lighting effects for objects under:Effects/Object .dll name = BevelObject Bezncurve Renders curves with 6 control points. under:Effects/Render .dll name = Bezncurve Cobweb Creates lines on an image related to the 'tone gradient' of the image... & stars! under:Effects/Artistic .dll name = Cobweb Composition tool Useful for cropping photos by rule of thirds or golden section under: Effects/Photo .dll name = Compotool contour - examples hidden below Splits an image into bands based on the tone value, with a variety of colouring options under: Effects/Artistic .dll name = contour Dryad Creates realistic trees, plants and fractal patterns. under: Effects/Iterative lines .dll name = Dryad Earths and greys - examples hidden below Simplifies an image based on tonal value and will colour it with a choice of palettes under: Effects/Color .dll name = Earths&Greys FurBlur Blurs/Trails random fibres onto an image to produce hair, fur and grass textures. under:Effects/Blurs .dll name = FurBlur Gradients galore! Wide choice of moveable gradients, with dithering and HSV options. under: Effects/Render .dll name = Gradientsgalore helix Renders spiral and helix shapes and colourful gradients. under:Effects/Iterative lines .dll name = Helix Highlight Produces a range of adjustable twinkly things, water glints, flares and rainbows. under: Effects/Render .dll name = highlightv2 New Clipwarp Wraps the clipboard image around an object based on its tone gradient. Good for glass, metal and water. under:Effects/Tools .dll name = ClipWarpNew Noise choice Allows you to blend noise with the image, on objects or on a transparent layer. under: Effects/Noise .dll name = noisechoice Object2colour Allows you to blend a colour with the objects original colour and 'clean' the transparent areas. under: Effects/Object .dll name = Object2colour Object edges Simply produces a range of outline/bevel effects on objects. under: Effects/Object .dll name = Objectedge Overblur Changes the value of the Gaussian blur applied. Useful for sharpening or producing halo effects and can be constrained to the object only. under: Effects/Blurs .dll name = overblur Psychocolour One slider produces a range of psychedelic effects. Also useful for giving colour to black and white images. under: Effects/Color .dll name = Psychocolour Recolour choice Different algorithms to isolate or change selected colours. under: Effects/Color .dll name = recolourchoice Selection2clear Makes the current selection transparent without deselecting. Useful for erasing on different layers. under: Effects/Transparency .dll name = selection2clear Scintillate Inverts an images colours in a chequered pattern. Can produce Moire patterns. under:Effects/Stylize .dll name = Scintillate Scribble Imitates various hand-drawn styles. under:Effects/Artistic .dll name = Scribble Note! the version in the pack may cause problems with very high d.p.i. machines. If so please try the version here:beta Scribble slinky Renders ellipses along a path. under:Effects/Iterative lines .dll name = Slinky Squirkle Produces a range of shapes from diamond, through circles, squirkles ellipses and rounded rectangles. under: Effects/Render .dll name = squirkle Squirklewarp Powerful distortion tool useful for glass spheres, water ripples and recursive images. under: Effects/Distort .dll name = squirklewarp StringAndPin and CalliColour Colourful Patterns under: Effects/Iterative lines .dllname = StringAndPin .dllname = CalliColour Tweak edges - examples hidden below Detects abrupt changes in tone, producing outlines. under: Effects/Artistic .dll name = Tweakedges Two Tone Threshold Useful for creating black & white images. under:Adjustments .dllname = TwoToneThreshold ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOT in the pack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- They either haven't been added to the pack yet or have been removed. They can be found here: ArtyThing Gossamer Facet Gears Cuboids MultiSpline ClipDisplace Tweak transparency Clipwarp (old version)

No - you are right. I think you would need 3 vanishing points to work out the length of 'smear'. As the attached picture shows, without a VP on the left or a nadir, all the angles look very wrong.

Well I did say it was easier said than done! However what I had imagined is far less involved than what you are considering. I would assume the simplest scenario, of flat text on a transparent layer (if the user wants to rotate it first that can already be done using 'rotate/zoom'). Personally I would only consider single point perspective (I've given up on 6 point fish-eye grid plugin, because it was turning my brain inside out!). Then it would be a matter of finding the first non transparent pixel in a line towards the vanishing point and copying those values back along the line toward (or away from) the VP in a ratio to the distance from the VP. A different angle for nearly every pixel, and averaging values for all but those in a perpendicular or horizontal line. - something very similar to the 'zoom blur' plugin but with a greater range for the VP position. Hard enough to explain let alone make it work! I wouldn't worry about retaining the original shape either, just recommend that people use a copied layer and move the first layer up later. Anyway they're only my ideas, and I'm not sure if that this method is even feasible. I am far more of a beginner than you, judging by your code! Personally I've not had much success with VS express and plugins, but I think others on here have and there might be a c# template somewhere on the developers central thread. No worries over time - It is extremely generous of you to make and share plugins in the first place;)

Would it be it useful to add perspective to this plug-in for extra 3D goodness (& to differentiate from Pyrochild's more comprehensive offering)? Yes please! It strikes me that you have done all the hard work in the code already, and that the DeltaX & Y values could be calculated as the ratio of the distance to a 'vanishing' point. I think 'zoom blur' does something similar but only 'smears' away from the central point, it would be more versatile if smearing towards the point was included. Also if the position of the vanishing point was allowed to be outside the canvas area (by using integer X,Y,sliders instead of the double vector UI), this would allow more subtle perspective angles. - Or perhaps just a single 'multiply distance' slider set at default of 1, applied to the standard double vector UI? Anyway, I know these things are much easier said than done, (but your code looks much more competent than mine!), so good luck, this could be a really useful tool. Thanks again for sharing.

It works nicely! thanks for sharing and thanks for publishing the source too (and for explaining things so well in the comments). It is slightly similar to 'trail', but still very useful and effective. Many Thanks;) Here's my 'test' using it :

Thanks for the feedback on the plugin and those are brilliant images you applied it to! Particularly png4 (lower LHS) - an octopus leg vortex?

Here's an attempt using mostly 'Highlight', with secondary colour set to pink, using the 'venus 5 way' setting with the line width quite large to make the flare pentagons. Lots of layers a few gaussian blurs, graduated layers and adjusting transparency and colour. I will try to private message you the pdn file - but I'm useless at understanding the forum - so hold your breath! - just experiment using many layers, running highlight with different settings on each, to try and build up the effect you are after.

What's wrong with my 'highlight' plugin? You could get the effect shown in the link by layering and setting primary colour to red.

I hope you enjoy it. - It' fun and simple to use and can give you ideas for alternate colour schemes, but it isn't subtle! - still there are plenty of more 'sane' colour plugins (curves etc.), if you need to fine tune things.

Thanks Valkathis and dj1551, for taking the time to reply . Glad you are finding it useful.

155 downloads, 600 views, no response - I WIN! - probably my fault - halfway through posting I received terrible news (my Dad died)- so I just wanted to get off the PC and grieve. So not the greatest intro - And I quite like the silence. Still, playing around with numbers and silly computer languages is a useful distraction. I've got an improved version of 'contour' - but when I publish, I will specify 'replies not tolerated' - and probably get some! Don't want to bring anyone down - but life is short - laugh when you can and when you shouldn't - personally I consider religion the best joke - paint real pictures with oil paint - it hasn't been bettered in nearly 600 years, and although pdn is wonderful, eyes, pencil and brain are still the best way to learn about the world (visually). However pdn has shown me the beauty of trigonometry - if I'd understood those curves as an adolescent, things would have been different! Think I've gone off topic here - never mind. Thanks again for the unsung work and thanks to the others I read and never bother logging in to respond to ;(Barbq, welshblue , etc,etc)

Ah.... you got the reference (I didn't want to risk the spelling - French is foreign language to me!). I'm not sure about a plugin pack - I'm still working on some ideas for new plugins and wonder if keeping separate threads for each may be easier if people have questions. Would the separate threads be deleted if I rolled the published ones into a new thread? - and would the download limit still allow examples/screenshots? It is an ambition, but I'm a bit busy at the moment and ideally I'd like to explain the plugins more fully if I published a pack. So work in progress. Cheers:D

Many thanks for keeping this pdf up to date. It's good to see my plugins included - makes me feel like a real programmer! I didn't reply earlier because I didn't want to ruin your chances in the 'most read/downloaded - least replied to, competition;)

This plugin uses one slider control to quickly produce a large range of psychedelic colour effects. Examples below. Many thanks to EER for advice and encouragement when I started this plugin. Tips: It's fun to use on faces and landscapes and it will work on partially transparent layers such as text layers. However it needs some graduation to get the full effect, so I'd recommend using my 'tweak transparency' plugin first, if using on plain black text. If the effect is too strong, then run it on a duplicate layer and experiment with transparency and blend options. All feedback appreciated. Enjoy! pschocolour is now in my plugin pack... here's the link: Red ochre plugin pack

Thanks for the positive feedback:)

Hello, this plugin is designed for use on transparent layers such as text layers or an 'ink sketch' on a transparent background,(where it can thicken the outline). A blur can be applied, then there are various ways to change the transparency within the maximum and minimum values and the overall transparency. Additionally you can select which colours to apply to the blur, (best set the primary and secondary colours first). It can create 'outline', 'bevelled' or 'shadow/halo' type effects, but since it relies on the change created by the blur it does not require text to be selected, as it works on the whole layer. This is what it looks like Tweak transparency is no longer in my plugin pack but is still attached here though. Tweaktrans2.zip I hope you enjoy it 23rd August 2011 - I have re-written this plugin. It is now much easier to blend 2 colours to create some interesting text effects.

That looks like the 'effect' you get by changing the 'fill: solid color' button to select a texture - at the top - click on it and scroll down. Then whatever you paint will be in that texture. I don't think it's a plugin - but I could be wrong.

That's a really strong, interesting image - I'd love to see both source photos. The only (minor) suggestion is the top LHS 'ghost' branch, through the blue sky, may be worth removing. The 2 images have registered together well and the idea and source pictures are stunning.

Thanks for the encouraging feedback - it will spur me on to finish some of my other 'beta' plug-ins

It's always good to learn! The main thing is to experiment and teach yourself - and use the tutorials - and get the concept of layers... and understand how to select things.. and different file formats. I've got an old bundled version of Photoshop - it's very good for text, & comes with loads of pre-made clip art, you'll, (I will) never use. I recommend trying whatever free graphics programs you can ( If your confident they're safe - virus scan everything). Gimp is powerful but complicated and a bit awkward on Windows (all just my opinions). There is freeware (usually quite old) from Serif and trial versions of the latest Adobe stuff. But it's probably better to understand the way various effects are created, I've learned a lot from the tutorials.- And still learning. Also there are 'vector' type graphic programs - also worth trying .. but different. If you've got every program on your computer, you may well get mixed up between them - but I'm quite happy to use one program for one thing and one for another. I love Paint.net because it's a small program giving me the option to download the plug-ins I want, and lately because I can mess about writing plug-ins, (to greater or less success!).

Hello, I've made a plugin to render those twinkly highlights you get when a photo is taken towards the Sun, highlights on water or metallic text. It is also good for space type pictures. It works on transparent layers, allowing more blend options and uses the primary and secondary colours - so try setting those first, ( a slightly off-white for the secondary gives good results). Tell me what you think (don't be too cruel, it's the first plugin I've dared to publish!). Enjoy. Highlight (updated) is now in my plugin pack. Here's the link Red ochre plugin pack

It's in 'Evanolds' plug in pack, which is pinned in the plugins section. Once you've unzipped it and put it in the effects folder, it shows up under Effects/distorts/quadrilateral reshape. - I've used it when trying to unskew photos of real paintings that have been taken from an angle. Just had a look in my effects folder and I presume the effect is in EOeffects.dll, as I've got the effect but no .dll called quadrilateral reshape!

I may have misunderstood but If you want to give the impression of rotating around the vertical axis, through the picture plane, then the "Quadrilateral reshape" plug in is very useful.

I have problems with this too. I try to save before using it, as it can crash if the tolerance level is too broad. It probably doesn't actually crash, but life is too short to wait. It would be helpful to have some way of aborting it, once started, too avoid a near infinite hang, allowing you to reset the tolerance to something it can deal with.(2gb dualcore Vista)