APShredder 4 Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 BlendModes Plus Have you ever wished that Paint.NET had more blend modes like some of those "other, more expensive" image editors? Well now your wish just came true! And now just for the low price of $500 FREE! This plugin can be found in Effects --> Tools --> BlendModes Plus. Basically, all you have to do is open the plugin, load an image, and choose your blend mode. Right now the current blend modes available are: Normal Additive Average Blue Color Color Burn Color Dodge Cyan Darken Difference Divide Exclusion Glow Grain Extract Grain Merge Green Hard Light Hard Mix Hue Lighten Linear Burn Linear Dodge Linear Light Luminosity Magenta Multiply Negation Overlay Phoenix Pin Light Red Reflect Saturation Screen Signed Difference Soft Light Stamp Vivid Light Yellow And even though this list is kinda long, I plan to add more blend modes before long.Blend Mode Descriptions: Here is just a quick rundown of what all the blend modes do. Hidden Content: Here are the to images I'm going to use.Normal I don't think this mode needs much of description. The final image is the blend image.Average This mode is good for blending two images together. Nothing special.Blue This mode replaces the blue channel of the base image with the blue channel of the blend image.Color This mode replaces the hue and saturation of the base image with the hue and saturation of the blend image.Cyan This mode replaces the cyan channel of the base image with the cyan channel of th blend image.DivideGrain ExtractGrain MergeGreen This mode replaces the green channel of the base image with the green channel of the blend image.Hard LightHard Mix This mode causes the resulting image to either be black, white, red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, or magenta.Hue This mode replaces the hue of the base image with the hue of the blend image.Linear Burn This mode will always make you image darker.Linear Dodge This mode will always make you image lighter.Linear Light This mode is similar to Linear Burn except the blend image is more noticeable.Luminosity This mode replaces the luminosity of the base image with the luminosity of the blend image.Magenta This mode replaces the magenta channel of the base image with the magenta channel of the blend image.Pin Light This mode causes light parts of the blend image and dark parts of the base image to show through.Red This mode replaces the red channel of the base image with the red channel of the blend image.Saturation This mode replaces the saturation of the base image with the saturation of the blend image.Signed DifferenceStamp This mode is good for applying textures to images.Yellow This mode replaces the yellow channel of the base image with the yellow channel of the blend image. The UI: And of course, all questions, comments, suggestions, and crash logs are welcome. :wink:Plugin Log: 3/24/10 - Organizer updated, multiple blend modes can be selected and moved at once. 3/13/10 - New blend modes added. (Additive, Color Burn, Color Dodge, Difference, Glow, Multiply, Negation, Overlay, Reflect, Screen) Maximum and Minimum renamed to Lighten and Darken. Organizational system added. 2/27/10 - New blend modes added. (Exclusion, Maximum, Minimum, Phoenix, Soft Light) 11/8/09 - Fixed some bugs. 11/8/09 - Copy From Clipboard Added, New blend mode added (Signed Difference) 10/30/09 - New blend mode added. (Vivid Light) 10/27/09 - New blend modes added. (Divide, Grain Extract, Grain Merge, and Hard Light) 10/25/09 - Plugin taken out of beta. 10/22/09 - Checkbox added to switch "layers". 10/21/09 - Beta version of plugin uploaded. DOWNLOAD: BlendModesPlus.zip 1 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
david.atwell 290 Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 Brilliant! We need more like this. This is what a plugin should be. You know what? I don't care that it's still in Beta. I'm stickying it. :-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
APShredder 4 Posted October 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 WOW! That has to be the fastest sticky I've ever seen! Thanks David! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crazy Man Dan 19 Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Well, I tested some of yours against the equivalent blend modes in The GIMP - don't have Photoshop to test - and the ones I could test range from pretty close to spot-on. Burn and Color in particular don't seem to mesh luminosity-wise, but others - Dodge, Hue, Saturation, Value (Luminosity) - seem to be right close. I've uploaded a 90% quality JPG as well as a full-quality PNG, in case you want to take a look. JPG (1.37MB) PNG (5.22MB) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
APShredder 4 Posted October 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Thanks CMD! They do look pretty close, if I do say so myself. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Illnab1024 11 Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Also, if you want some kind of suggestions on how the math works in The GIMP, you can always download the source Blend modes are in... /app/base/base-enums.h:68 is the enum typedef, /app/composite/gimp-composite-generic.c is where some math's at. Additionally, for the sake of simplicity and being able to expand without getting confused really quickly, make an enum with all your blendmodes in it and a function of two surfaces (left-hand side, right-hand side) that uses the blend mode. It will be far less confusing than a huge switch in the middle of your render function. And also, with that, your drop-down list can just return the struct name instead of a string. Just a suggestion. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TopHATslash 0 Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Wow, great work. I can definitely see a later version of this incorporated into PdN 4.0.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kemaru 44 Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Incredible. I'm downloading it right away! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Boude 2 Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 I love you! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pipp92 3 Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 fantastic plugin if this would be integrated in pdn it would be awesome so it's a bit complicated if you have to load an image before applying a blend mode :-/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Simon Brown 43 Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 if this would be integrated in pdn it would be awesome ..or if there was support for blend mode plugins. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pyrochild 351 Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Cool plugin. You should add a checkbox to switch the order of the "layers." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
APShredder 4 Posted October 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Thanks everyone for your support and suggestions! @Illnab: I'm trying out your suggestions right now, but I think I might just keep it like I have it for now. @pyrochild: D'oh! I don't know why I didn't think of that. That'll be a great improvement for this plugin Thanks! EDIT: Just uploaded the version with the checkbox that switches the "layers". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kemaru 44 Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 I must say, you're one of the fastest plugin authors to update. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
flip 3 Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 This looks really useful. Thanks a bunch. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blooper 0 Posted October 24, 2009 Report Share Posted October 24, 2009 Excellent work, chap. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
APShredder 4 Posted October 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 Okay everybody, due to the great amount of satisfactory reviews I've been getting, I've decided to remove the beta label from the plugin. Everyone seems to be happy with it so far, and I haven't got a single complaint yet, so keep on enjoying it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LFC4EVER 4 Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 You, sir, make epic plugins. I thank you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
APShredder 4 Posted October 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 You're welcome. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Goonfella 219 Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 Just downloaded the plug in and I`m very impressed. Well done. :wink: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilson 0 Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 Great plugin and well done on getting it Sticky'd. Using it when I get home to my PdN computer... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
APShredder 4 Posted October 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 Thanks guys! I still can't believe how well this plugin has gone over with people so far. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
theonlychad 5 Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 wow i love this AMAZING :shock: if you are going for the GE plugin brilliance award you have my nomination i have been waiting for this for ages thank you so much man! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
person_321 2 Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 Heh, you got some of the blend modes from gimp didn't you :wink: great plugin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pyrochild 351 Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 Cool plugin. You should add a checkbox to switch the order of the "layers." @pyrochild: D'oh! I don't know why I didn't think of that. That'll be a great improvement for this plugin Thanks!EDIT: Just uploaded the version with the checkbox that switches the "layers". Great, thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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