MadJik Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 List of Color palettes What's this? More and more color palettes are over time in the user folder and finding the right one can be difficult. This tool is made to display all the palettes on the canvas. What does it do? It looks for the files in the palette folder (and subfolders), reads the list of colors to draw a palette for each file. Empty colors are marked with X. Invalid colors are marked with a red X. NB: All errors (empty or invalid) are removed on all palettes when you save one palette with paint.net. One image of palette uses by default a rectangle of 180 x 90 + margins 10 and 7. Palettes are placed regularly on the canvas. Download it! Plugin ListOfPalettes.dll Here is the DLL http://jcljay.free.fr/pdn/ListOfPalettes.zip The MadJik's All plugins package is available! http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?showtopic=7186 How to install Close Paint.net Classic version of Paint.net Unzip and (re)place the DLL in your Effect folder usually: C:/Program Files/Paint.NET/Effects (please reverse / for correct path) Microsoft Store version of Paint.net Unzip and (re)place the DLL in your Effect folder usually: My Documents/paint.net App Files/Effects (please reverse / for correct path) You have to adapt for your language My Documents How to use it This effect replaces the canvas on the active layer. Be sure to use a new layer or a new image. Set the dimensions large enough to have all your palettes at once on the same image. Then run the effect and choose the colors for the text and the background. If some palettes aren’t shown, you could adjust the size (-/+ 5 pixels of the single color square) with the first slider. The User interface This plugin is added to the menu Effects, submenu Tools. Size Adjustment This slider allows small adjustments on size of the smallest unit used: single color square. The other elements are based on this size. This is a tool and not a toy ?. If the adjustment isn’t enough you should consider to use another size of image. Border color Select the color for the borders and the texts. Back color Select the color for the background of the list of palettes. Background is visible behind empty or invalid colors but isn’t for colors with transparency. Read sub folders If any sub folders (or tree) exist in the user folder, check the box when you want to see the palettes of the sub folders. The Example: A message on the bottom line shows the full path of the folder and the number of palettes shown / the total number of palettes. The message is red if there are too many palettes for the size of the canvas. Voilà! Enjoy! Let me see what you could do with it! 2 3 Quote My DeviantArt | My Pictorium | My Plugins | Donate via Paypal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djisves Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 A very useful plugin. I didn't know how much I needed this before you thought and implemented it, MadJik! I only keep in the normal "Palettes" folder the two or three palettes I use most often. I have another folder where I keep all palettes that I use occasionally to rarely. So, you can see how useful it would be for me to identify and choose a palette I need if your plugin allowed the user to define the path for the palettes to be drawn. If it's too much trouble, please forget I asked; your plugin is very useful as it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynxster4 Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Very nice @MadJik I could see this coming in handy! Thank you! Quote My Art Gallery | My Shape Packs | ShapeMaker Mini Tut | Air Bubble Stained Glass Chrome Text with Reflections | Porcelain Text w/ Variegated Coloring | Realistic Knit PatternOpalescent Stained Glass | Frosted Snowman Cookie | Leather Texture | Plastic Text | Silk Embroidery Visit my Personal Website "Never, ever lose your sense of humor - you'll live longer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 @MadJik! Thank you very much for your effort and plugin. Quote Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadJik Posted March 1, 2018 Author Share Posted March 1, 2018 24 minutes ago, Djisves said: define the path for the palettes to be drawn. If it's too much trouble, please forget I asked; your plugin is very useful as it is. Then place the folder in the palette folder as sub folder... @Djisves @lynxster4 @Seerose Thank you for your interest. 1 Quote My DeviantArt | My Pictorium | My Plugins | Donate via Paypal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewDavid Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Thanks @MadJik I love palette tools. I think I know the answer to this one; Have you ever tried to sort a palette? Can it be done programmatically? I use excel but it still doesn't get all the colors grouped together 100%. It's close though. Your thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadJik Posted March 1, 2018 Author Share Posted March 1, 2018 @AndrewDavid to tell the truth I'm about to release an other one tool for palettes + a new effect using palettes. These two effects to come lead me to create the list of pallets ...Stay tuned.... 1 Quote My DeviantArt | My Pictorium | My Plugins | Donate via Paypal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 2 hours ago, AndrewDavid said: Have you ever tried to sort a palette? Can it be done programmatically? I think, if you are trying to sort colors programatically, you'd want to convert them to HSV first and sort by H (with guard band) then order by S and V combined in some way. Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadJik Posted March 1, 2018 Author Share Posted March 1, 2018 Generated palette: Quote My DeviantArt | My Pictorium | My Plugins | Donate via Paypal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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