merarischroeder Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 (edited) I would like to be able to apply a range of pre-defined colour filters onto existing photos. Photo colouring seems to be an elusive art, that could be made more accessible by direct photo colour filtering tools within Paint .Net. It might just be a matter of mastering levels, but I would prefer a more intuitive approach. See my tutorial below. It would be handy to enter one or two colours to recolour a photo. This feature would need a lot more input from graphic artists to gather a full compliment of requirements, but I think this would be a feature for the masses. There may be existing plugins and tutorials for this, I could find them myself, so please point me in the right direction if there are. Even if there are plugins, I think this is a feature that needs to be baked in. see Edited August 26, 2019 by merarischroeder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorOutlaw Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 (edited) 11 hours ago, merarischroeder said: It might just be a matter of mastering levels, There are other tricks. You could use Curves, Hue and Saturation, Color Balance (look for BoltBait's plug-in pack inside the Plug-In Section of the Forums), and using layer blending modes. I have watched quite a few photo manipulation tutorials on YouTube and I have observed those artists tend to use what I just suggested. Paint.NET is not one trick pony software. It requires effort and learning by experience. Edit: I looked at your "tutorial" and to be honest, I have no idea what you are trying to do. Edited July 19, 2019 by TrevorOutlaw Quote Paint.NET Gallery | Remove Foreground Object Tutorial | Dispersion Effect Tutorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHaveNoName Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 Me neither. If the intention is to colour correct the over yellow cast, probably caused by the tungsten lighting in the (cave?) location then there are plenty of ways of doing that. Accurate colour correction, more accurately: conversion of non-daylight sources was always a problem before the digital age - you had tungsten balanced film available but that was balanced for 3200K, what typical professional tungsten studio lighting output. So for other sources, like domestic 60W - 100W bulbs or tungsten halogen spot lights, fluorescent tubes, neon or mercury vapour street lighting you'd still have to use significant additional colour correct filtration as well. Mixed sources were a nightmare. White balancing with digital cameras I thought was supposed to have made those sorts of problems a thing of the past. That photo ^ and the final one in the other thread suggests something else other than just colour correction was intended. But what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merarischroeder Posted August 26, 2019 Author Share Posted August 26, 2019 I wasn't trying to colour-correct, I was trying to stylise. In this case I accomplished a monochrome filter to make the colourful photo fit in with a convervative colour palette in my web app. If there are optimised "manual" ways to do this in Paint .Net, I'm always happy to learn. The closest description of the feature I propose would be "Instagram Filters". Or perhaps something you can playwith easily - https://photomania.net/editor The appropriateness to directly include this into Paint .Net would be a subjective decision: NO - because it's already possible with turning knobs and dials with existing core functionality and plugins. NO - because that kind of thing should only be accomplished with a plugin, not a core feautre YES - although it's possible to do with knobs and idals, creativity requires a person to quickly enumerate a range of different directions and simply judge what works for their situation. YES - there are products dedicated to this kind of thing, which proves the value. "Instagram Filters" merely brought this idea to the mainstream. YES - colour filtering should be thought of as a major key featureset for editing rastered images, it's absence requires users to do it the hard and long way instead, resulting in fewer users bothering to engage with the software. My philosophy here being, allow users to do it the quick and easy, then let advanced users do it the hard manual way for greater control. YES - it would be a gateway feature. People download and install Paint .Net to apply colour filters to their photos, then they also start using other features, and decide to use Paint .Net instead of other software they've used in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorOutlaw Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 I really think you need to spend some time reading the tutorials. There are folks who have written tutorials that teach you how to work around the limitations of PDN. The only limitation, really, is your ability to think outside the box. Quote Paint.NET Gallery | Remove Foreground Object Tutorial | Dispersion Effect Tutorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJW Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 There are a number of ways of applying a color filter in PDN, including Ed Harvey's Color Filter plugin, and adding a layer above the image layer, setting it to Multiply blend mode, and filling it with a color.They may or may not do what you have in mind. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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