Invert Anything

[Xhin]

Adjustments > Invert Anything

 

This plugin allows you to invert a pretty wide variety of things all in one plugin.

 

I'm 99% sure most of this exists elsewhere, but there are a couple things that don't exist yet.

 

 

• Red/Green/Blue -- inverts the red, blue and/or green channels. Will essentially turn yellow into blue, red into cyan, and so on.
• Hue/Saturation/Value  Inverts the hue, saturation or value.
• Alpha -- Inverts the alpha channel -- transparent pixels will become more opaque, and vice-versa. Fully transparent pixels will apparently turn black.

 

Contrast

This feature came from a different plugin I'm working on. Essentially you're inverting things on either side of the median. If you're doing this with red contrast+green contrast+blue contrast on something colorful, for example, you'll get an image that's significantly more gray. Something with more washed-out colors will become more colorful. Essentially you're pulling the colors further away from the median towards the median (making them gray) and vice-versa.

 

Other effects work much the same way, except instead of the median being gray it'll be whatever the median value for that setting is -- hue contrast for example will pull things closer or further away from cyan because that's the median hue.

 

Plugin Examples

This plugin offers a large amount of options, so rather than show them all I'll show each individual setting and a few interesting combinations all in one image.

 

 

First, here's a source image. This cat is pretty useful for testing color/adjustment plugins -- lots of different colors, a good bit of white and black as well.

 

 

Here are some different settings. The "Everything" means "everything but alpha + alpha contrast".

 

Download Link

https://github.com/Xhin23/Paint.net-Plugins/blob/master/Invert_Anything.dll

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Nice. Would it make more sense to have a drop down list? It would shorten the UI quite a bit and also allow you to add more options if they come along.

[Xhin]

The problem with having a drop-down list is that would require 87,178,291,200 (14 factorial) options with the current iteration of the plugin because you can mix and match all of these effects.

[MJW]

Actually 16,384 (2^14), but that's still a long drop-down list!

[Seerose]

 @Xhin!

 

Thank you so much for your effort.  

 

*Value

*Value+Blue

[Disciple of Bears]

The best, laziest solution would be to add horizontal rules (separators) between each mini group for visual distinction. Could also do this:

red         red contrast        hue              hue contrast               alpha
blue       blue contrast      saturation  saturation contrast    alpha contrast
green    green contrast    value           value contrast

Or organize like this:

red
  red contrast
blue
  blue contrast
green
  green contrast
...

[Disciple of Bears]

Incidentally the inversion of RGB HSV and alpha can be done with the Channel Ops plugin, although the 'contrast' versions of each channel aren't a concept there.

[BoltBait]

31 minutes ago, Disciple of Bears said:

Incidentally the inversion of RGB HSV and alpha can be done with the Channel Ops plugin, although the 'contrast' versions of each channel aren't a concept there.

IndirectUI doesn’t have a horizontal separator control. 

[Disciple of Bears]

27 minutes ago, BoltBait said:

IndirectUI doesn’t have a horizontal separator control. 

My mistake, I read two threads and absent-mindedly thought this was the one that mentioned being ported to VS. Whoops!

[IHaveNoName]

Nice plugin; useful additional to to basic colour invert tool.

[sucidokami]

I'm trying to download the file but when I download it, open it, it says it needs an installer in order to open it? Can you provide any tips or any third-party sources needed to open the plug-in? Thanks.

[ardneh]

Plugins aren't opened.
They need to be installed.
 

https://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/InstallPlugins.html

 

Once installed this one will be found in the Adjustments menu.