sradforth Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 (edited) (As requested, all plugins contained in this post are now in this one zip file!) Download all plugins and source code in StusPluginsWithSource.zip below Contains - Selection Obscurer - Advanced Rotate - Alpha Contrast - iPhone Icon maker - RGB Remapper -Vignette1 Selection Obscurer: Given a rectangular selection, this plugin will use the borders of that selection to fill the contents to allow you to delete the contents and replace it with appropriate pixels. This is helpful in removing items from images so the eye doesn't notice an obvious seem. There is an option for an interesting center which applies some pattern internally so it's not just a simple blend. You can also tweak the sharpness of the blend, the sharper the value the more the edges match correctly but may see visible artifacts in the center, the blurrier means a smoother center but may highlight disjoints around the edges. Advanced Rotate: This plugin does rotation on the selected area. A great advantage is this rotation plugin operates around the center of your selection as compared to Paint.NET's rotation plugin which always uses the center of your whole image. The main purpose is what to do with the unauthored areas of the rotation.... I.e. you can select to mirror the image, clamp it, use the default colour, leave it as untouched, and repeat. Mirroring is probably the most useful for general photo tidying as it fills the area with appropriate pixels as you can see below... It is also possible to turn on/off the bilinear interpolation should it get in the way or you want a faster update on larger pictures Here's a picture of it in action. Alpha Contrast: Vignette: RGB Remapper: RGB Intensity to Alpha(iPhone icon maker): StusPluginsWithSource.zip Edited March 18, 2018 by Ego Eram Reputo Fixed broken images. Added link to refreshed Zip 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sradforth Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 Here's a Vignette plugin I've made using CodeLab's C# tool. Vignette1.zip Details To use this you need to create a new layer and select the effect on this newly opened layer (top most). It will generate a smooth shaded border as seen in shows like TopGear and other motorsports. Also excellent to bring the viewer into the center of the picture/give the feeling of claustrophobia The effect is added to the Effects/Artistic menu option. Here's a picture of it in action. Stuart Radforth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipp92 Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 i like the vignette one was always searching for a vignette effect in a new layer Quote Personal Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briamoth Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Like the vignette one too. Would save a lot of time when making some of my sigs. Thanks a lot man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sradforth Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 iPhone TabBar Icon Maker Download here iPhoneTabbarIconMaker.zip Details For any iPhone app makers out there you may have found making icons a bit tricky with Paint.NET. The magic is you need to use only the alpha channel, as the RGB is discarded by the iPhone and save the image as a 32bit PNG. This plugin will sample the luminosity of your image (RGB value) and convert it into a greyscale (or you can author it in greyscale if you'd prefer). It will then set the greyscale into the alpha channel and set a user selected RGB value so you can visually see the icon in editors. Transparent areas will be transparent on the iPhone (i.e. showing the tab bar). Opaque areas will show up as light colours. Icons need to be about 20 pixels high and no larger than say 40 pixels wide. This plugin will install itself into the Effects/Advanced menu item of Paint.NET Here's an image of it in action (using an image that is much larger than 20 pixels high so would need to be downsampled). Cheers, Stu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Brown Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 One suggestion: Put everything in the first post and possibly in the same ZIP so that they're easier to find, especially if you release a new plugin after a lot of comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sradforth Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 RGB remapper Download here RGB_Remap4.zip This was done to help test tinting for fullscreen effects in movies and games. It will add the menu option to Effects/Colour/RGB_Remapper. Effectively it runs the RGB value through a matrix to remap to other colours so you can convert your Red's to say Yellow but leave Green and Blue channels uneffected. The alpha channel is untouched. Details To use the orthogonal matrix just set the Red value to Red, Green value to Green and Blue value to Blue... this should produce exactly the same image that you see to begin with. From there you can start tweaking the colours to remap the RGB channels to other colours. Very handy for swapping the Blue and Red channels around for instance but equally very helpful for matching skin tones from different lighting conditions or media. There is a normalize option enabled by default (check box), disabling this means you'll get a non-normalized matrix so you can do things which aren't technically accurate but give good effects like replace the red and blue channels with say dark grey so you'll only have shades of grey and green in your image (used heavily in films like Matrix). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Adjustments > Advanced Rotate... This will be useful. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Possum Roadkill Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 Looks very interesting. I'll give them a try. Thanks ! Quote My Gallery SAC, WOTW and Photo Manip Competition Host To visit the Comps click HERE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sradforth Posted June 10, 2010 Author Share Posted June 10, 2010 Here's another very simple but somewhat handy plugin. I've coined it 'Alpha Contrast', it can really help get a good sharp edges after gaussian blurring something with alpha in. (Thanks again to CodeLab for making this trivial) What it does is a value of 100% leaves the picture untouched. A value of 0% will make everything have 50% transparency. A value of 100% will leave the alpha in the picture untouched. A value of 200% will make any source alpha at 50% remain at 50%, src alpha at 25% will become 0% and src alpha at 75% will become 100% opaque. etc.. The equation is New_Alpha = ( Original_Alpha - 0.5 ) * Percentage_To_Apply + 0.5 Here's a few steps of it in action... Attached is a zip will all the plugins so far. StusPlugins.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warfighter67 Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 I like the alpha contrast one and adv. rotate. I could see using alpha contrast as an AA tool ... Applying Feather/GBlur/AA's assistant then alpha contrast to sharpen out the blurry effect those plugins give it Quote My Soundclick!--Well of Souls MMO--Gallery--Facebook--Photobucket--Cool Tile Texture! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedFalcon Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Very interesting plugins. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KetchupKid Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I use Advanced Rotate fairly often, but I have a question: Did the author make 45 the default as a joke? It is irritating and I cannot understand why the default can't be zero or 1. 45 is ridiculous! Quote Ketchup Kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 It had to be something! The CodeLab source is part of the download package. Download and install CodeLab as you would any other Effect then fire up paint.net. Open CodeLab (paint.net > Effects > Advanced > CodeLab) and load the Advanced Rotate source file (AdvancedRotate.cs). Modify as required and save the source file before building it as a DLL. Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJW Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I use Advanced Rotate fairly often, but I have a question: Did the author make 45 the default as a joke? It is irritating and I cannot understand why the default can't be zero or 1. 45 is ridiculous! At the time the plugin was written, CodeLab plugins couldn't modify the default value of 45°. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KetchupKid Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 That's too bad, but thanks for the response. Quote Ketchup Kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 If you follow my previous directions you can rebuild the source file to create your own custom setting. Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KetchupKid Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 (edited) If you follow my previous directions you can rebuild the source file to create your own custom setting. Thanks - I hadn't seen that. I have it downloaded and will give it a try. Thanks! UPDATE: Fixed it. Thanks, much! Edited June 17, 2016 by KetchupKid Quote Ketchup Kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay-f Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Hi quick question where is the Selection Obscurer.dll in the zip file?? there only 5 in the zip when the is 6 plugins on this page!? thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 There are six now I've added SelectionObscure.dll to the zip file. Try downloading it again. 1 1 Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorOutlaw Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 @Ego Eram Reputo, I think that PDN is suppressing SelectionObscure.dll. I couldn't find it anywhere in the Effect submenu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMake Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 26 minutes ago, TrevorOutlaw said: I couldn't find it anywhere in the Effect submenu. Effects -> Selection -> Obscure 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay-f Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Thanks Ego Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorOutlaw Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 4 hours ago, ReMake said: Effects -> Selection -> Obscure I could have swore it didn't show up. Ah, all is well now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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