Red ochre Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 (edited) Hello, I've made a plugin to render those twinkly highlights you get when a photo is taken towards the Sun, highlights on water or metallic text. It is also good for space type pictures. It works on transparent layers, allowing more blend options and uses the primary and secondary colours - so try setting those first, ( a slightly off-white for the secondary gives good results). Tell me what you think (don't be too cruel, it's the first plugin I've dared to publish!). Enjoy. Highlight (updated) is now in my plugin pack. Here's the link Red ochre plugin pack Edited October 24, 2012 by Red ochre 2 Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goonfella Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Nice work. Perfect for spacescapes. Quote Please feel free to visit my Gallery on PDNFans And my Alternatives to PDN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homebrew Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Tested with fire plugin alone and add water reflection, tested on text and various effects, and with edges detect + ink sketch always good , think there are plenty of uses! a four star plug-in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Very cool Nice job Red Ochre. 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...
Red ochre Posted June 4, 2011 Author Share Posted June 4, 2011 Thanks for the encouraging feedback - it will spur me on to finish some of my other 'beta' plug-ins Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj1551 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 I love it ! This is great for jewels and chrome and shiny sparkly icons. In only a month it's already become one of my favs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkathis Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 I love it, thank you for sharing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 Thanks Valkathis and dj1551, for taking the time to reply . Glad you are finding it useful. Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avim1968 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 (edited) Hi Red ochre Just wanted to tell you that your highlight2 plugin is GREAT !! :-) I love it. I have an idea to add to your plugin, tell me what do you think. Can you add a selection circle and in it create two radius's with a changeable angle between them. this can restrict the effect span to between those two lines only. saving the need to use/create selection with angles etc.. for example creating a desk light with rays toward the table only. i also have a question? I want to create a light bulb effect but with a twist, i want the middle to be empty. ie. the rays would start to be shown only from a selected radius from the center. can you tell me how to do it? or can you add such feature to this great plugin? you can add it to my former idea above, and add the radius selection to the angle selection box from the above idea. thank you Avi. p.s. i know i can select a circle on top of the work area cutting the glow start lines. Edited June 22, 2012 by avim1968 Quote "DDAP=Don't Drink And Post!" :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted June 22, 2012 Author Share Posted June 22, 2012 Hello avim1968 Glad you're finding the plugin useful and thanks for taking the time to give some feedback. Your suggestion to add controls to limit the effect to a segment would be possible, however, I won't be changing the plugin (sorry!). The reasons are as follows:- 1. What you have suggested is very easily achieved by running the plugin on a new layer on top of your image, then deleting the portion you do not need. a. To select a segment I would draw two straight lines from the centre using the line tool at 1 pixel width, and then 'magic wand' the area to keep, invert the selection and delete. b. To remove the centre, either use the ellipse/circle select tool or the eraser at a very large width. I also tend to use a small Gaussian blur after using the effect too. 2. The U.I. (user interface) of the plugin is already huge - I like to give the user as many options as possible, meaning my plugins tend to have more controls than most - if they get any bigger they won't fit on the screen! Multipage U.I.s are possible if the plugin is created using an advanced program called Visual studio - however I'm too much of a novice to be able to use it. This plugin was one of my first and created with the wonderful 'codelab' plugin. 3. Plugins, ideally, are useful for many users with many different uses for the plugin. Although your ideas would be useful for your use, they would just over complicate the plugin for others (unless I suddenly get 100 post asking for the same thing!). Bespoke plugins are possible though, by using codelab. 4. Life is too short:- Coding takes time - for me at least. How many sunrises left? - even optimistically, less than the number of pixels in a 100 by 100 pixel image! Anyway, keep coming up with ideas and I do recommend you have a go at writing some plugins with codelab. All the best. Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avim1968 Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Hi thank you for the answer, I have used your answers to make my image. i just wanted the plugin do it for me. i was thinking again, about the UI you are correct it is one of the crowed so angle circle would be too much. so scrap it. but if you ever get 100 requests for angle restriction /or nothing else to do in your spare time, i guess you can just add a small box with an angle number (no big circle) where user can enter 0-360 , default 360, i think there would be room just for this in the UI ;-) about the inner circle scrap it too. since doing it the other way is very fast. codelab: i have started to look into it, using BoltBait great tutorials! and learning by looking into other plugins codes, that i can put my hands on. (any chance to see your highlight2 code ?) again thank you thank you :-) Avi Quote "DDAP=Don't Drink And Post!" :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdnnoob Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Any chance there will be an anti-alias option in the future? Quote No, Paint.NET is not spyware...but, installing it is an IQ test. ~BoltBait Blend modes are like the filling in your sandwich. It's the filling that can change your experience of the sandwich. ~Ego Eram Reputo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted June 23, 2012 Author Share Posted June 23, 2012 Hello again Avi, The Highlight code is quite large and difficult to edit in codelab because it's constantly trying to compile and run the plugin whilst you are editing it. I have just uploaded the code for the 'squirkle' plugin, which is very similar, and much easier to understand/ better written. http://forums.getpai...le/#entry363068 I do caution you that I am only a novice in coding so the code could probably be much better! If you get on o.k. understanding that then p.m. me and I'll share the Highlight code - I warn you it's not pretty code though! {There is a good free code editor called Notepad++, that would be better for just veiwing the code. http://notepad-plus-plus.org/} @ pdnnoob - I know some of the options are a bit 'pixelly' - I'm probably not going to fix this any time soon as the whole thing could do with re-writing really. The best work around for the time being is to run it on it's own layer and apply a small zoom or Gaussian blur - but you've probably worked that out already! Anti-aliasing gets quite complicated at the best of times - it would be a nightmare without simplifying the code a bit first - sorry. Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Red ochre! Thank you for "Highlight" plugin. I think it's very versatile. Thank you also for the entire effort. 2 Quote Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 I'm glad you are finding " Highlight" useful Seerose. Thanks for posting the image - I particularly like the colours and flower shapes! Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 @Red ochre! Without you all this impossible. Thank you to all. Quote Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 (edited) @This is for you. And I call it "Red Ochre Highlight Flower" Many thanks for the great plugin. Edited June 12, 2020 by Seerose 1 Quote Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted June 16, 2015 Author Share Posted June 16, 2015 That's beautiful - thank you! Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 That's beautiful - thank you! @I have to thank. Quote Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eli Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 I like the highlights, Thanks @Red ochre 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted June 11, 2020 Author Share Posted June 11, 2020 Thanks for posting the colourful image Eli! Wow, published 2011 - where does the time go?🙄 1 Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 ❤️ @Red ochre! I just had to try again. Thank you so much. 2 1 Quote Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted June 13, 2020 Author Share Posted June 13, 2020 Thanks for the lovely new images Seerose! 1 Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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