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This plugin enables you to interface with remove.bg to remove backgrounds from your images directly inside Paint.NET 

A remove.bg account and API key is required to use this plugin - you receive 50 free previews a month on RemoveBG which will let you use this plugin, but you will see a slight drop in image quality using the free previews. The plugin will consume paid credits first if you have any credited against your account. In the next update I plan to add additional header options in settings to account for this.

 

 

Your API key will be stored in config.json, next to the dll

 

This plugin is compatible with Paint.NET 4

 

Download: https://github.com/WhelanB/PDN-RemoveBG/releases

 

 

Effects->Tools->Remove Background

Executing the Effect

 

 

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@WhelanB, if you're going to package a shared DLL like NewtonsoftJson.dll, then you need to make sure your plugin:

  1. Targets PDN 4.3 and .NET 5
  2. It must be installed to its own folder within Effects
  3. It should have a .deps.json file, which should automatically be created by Visual Studio when you build the project

Alternately, you can use something like ILMerge (IIRC) to merge everything into 1 DLL.

 

Otherwise there can be conflicts with other plugins that might want to use other versions of NewtonsoftJson.dll, or with the one that PDN uses.

 

This is a new requirement for plugins because it just became possible to do this sort of isolation starting with PDN 4.3. I've removed your download link so that you can provide a new version that satisfies these requirements.

 

(Also, let me be clear, this isn't because you "broke" a rule, and you're not being "punished" -- I should've published this rule/guidance a week or so ago with the release of PDN 4.3. I've added the rule to https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/13129-rules-for-plugins-that-are-published-on-this-forum/. Yours was just the first plugin I saw which needed this applied to it.)

 

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@WhelanB, when you switch to .NET 5, using NewtonsoftJson might not be necessary anymore (depending on the APIs you're using).

The new System.Text.Json namespace has many replacement/alternative APIs; with a lot more coming in .NET 6.

Hopefully, that will remove the need for external dependency DLLs on your Effect.

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@NSD the fixed version is up on the GitHub page for the plugin https://github.com/WhelanB/PDN-RemoveBG/releases

 

I'll modify the post the include a link to that page

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This plugin  is not not free to use 👎, see -> https://www.remove.bg/pricing

On 10/7/2021 at 4:23 PM, WhelanB said:

(you receive 50 free credits on account creation)

☝️That's only half the truth.

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As a remove.bg user you get 1 free credit for signing up, and 50 free API calls for preview images each month. Since remove.bg for Windows/Mac/Linux utilizes the API that means you can process 50 preview images (up to 0.25 megapixels, e.g. 625x400) with it for free each month.

 

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On 10/19/2021 at 12:10 AM, Rle said:

This plugin  is not not free to use 👎, see -> https://www.remove.bg/pricing

☝️That's only half the truth.

 

I've updated the main post to call them "Free Previews via API" instead of "Free Credits" since that's what remove.bg refers to them as - I had these in my head as "free credits" rather than a "free" paid credit if that makes sense - the plugin will resize your images back to their original size, so you'll see a slight loss of quality using these previews.

 

I'm not affiliated in any way with remove.bg, I wrote this for my own personal use as a PDN user and figured others might find it useful!

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