korteck Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 Can a plugin be made to alter the emboss effect? I know nothing about creating plugins so please forgive me if this is a stupid question. I'd like to be able to emboss only active pixels on a layer instead of embossing the entire layer. Think of it in the same way that the feather plugin seeks out areas of transparency. Could the emboss effect do the same thing? Emboss only areas where there is no transparency? This would be very helpful for creating texture on specific parts of an image only. I would have asked this in the pluging forum, but I think that's reserved for plugin publishing only. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellfire010 Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 You could shift+magicwand to select all transparent pixels, invert selection, then emboss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korteck Posted December 30, 2006 Author Share Posted December 30, 2006 Well duh Hellfire! That worked like a charm. I never thought about selecting an image before I embossed it. I've been doing that for blurs, but it never occurred to me to do that with any other effect. I bet it works for the other effects like noise and clouds too. Thanks a bunch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 All effects and all drawing are clipped to the current selection. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illnab1024 Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 Rick, Korteck means that the emboss effect be altered to keep the layer's original transparencies Quote ~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellfire010 Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Which my method works fine for... except semi-transparency, ok there you have a point. And no problem korteck. Glad I could help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illnab1024 Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Hmm... One moment... *scurries off to make emboss with alpha effect* Whoa! First build run... Anyway, it works fine. Here: AlphaEmboss.dll This will retain the layer's original alpha imformation. Quote ~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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