Requesting/suggesting a plugin?

[iiPostMasterYT]

I honestly don't know if this is the right forum, but here goes.

 

I am running paint.net v3.5.5 and was wondering if there was any kind of plugin that could turn shaded color variants into transparency.

 

And here's what I mean:

 

With a gray color that is shaded lighter or darker, you can use the "Overlay" mode in the layers tab to merge said layer to a layer of color, and it will then have a shaded color.

 

And with that, by this suggestion/request for a plugin, I am saying this:

 

Make some kind of plugin that can merge a color layer and/or a grayscale layer to a fully transparent layer, and just make it be black with a certain number in the alpha value corresponding to the value you began with for the shaded color.

 

I am mostly sure that this has been proposed before, and this is why I'm also labeling it as a request. It is a most necessary thing for me to find out if this has been made ornot in the past, and whether or not a download for my version  of paint.net (v3.5.5) is available.

 

I tried to make this seem as little like a word wall as possible, so it is easier to read, and fewer people will tl;dr. (too long; didn't read.)

[MJW]

I'm not certain I understand what you want, but take a look at the Color Clearer plugin. It "removes" a selected color so that if the layer is blended (in the Normal blending mode) to a background of the removed color, the original colors will be produced. For instance, if you have a grayscale image and the selected color is white, the resultant image will be all black, with alpha values that will produce the original image when the layer is above a white layer.

[BoltBait]

1 hour ago, iiPostMasterYT said:

I am running paint.net v3.5.5 and ...

 

We can not help you unless you upgrade to the latest version of paint.net.

 

No hard feelings, it is simply part of the forum rules.

 

Closed.