Rick Brewster Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 (edited) NOTE: This plugin is no longer being maintained or updated, and is incompatible with Paint.NET 4.x. You can read all about HD Photo here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_Photo NOTE: This is a BETA release. Eventually it will be built-in to Paint.NET though. Edit: This is no longer the plan. Installation Instructions: 1) Copy HDPhoto.dll to C:/Program Files/Paint.NET/FileTypes 2) Restart Paint.NET (if it was already started) If you installed to a place other than "C:/Program Files/Paint.NET" then substitute the appropriate directory name. Download: http://www.getpaint....HDPhoto.0.4.zip Change Log: v0.1, April 5th -- Initial release. Expires on June 1st, 2007. v0.2, April 28th 2007 -- Added ability to open images that are not 32-bit BGRA. Also added ability to save in 24-bit format. This version now expires on July 1st, 2007. v0.2 (again), June 16th, 2007 -- Recompiled and re-uploaded. Expiration date is now September 1st, 2007, and also will expire if Paint.NET reports that it is version 3.20 or newer. July 4th -- reuploaded version that should work now. v0.3 -- September 8th, 2007 -- Recompiled and re-uploaded. Removed date-based expiration in favor of version-based expiration. This plugin will cease working if Paint.NET is upgraded to version 3.20 or newer (which doesn't exist yet -- the plan is simply to have the plugin integrated by then). v0.4 -- December 14th, 2007 -- New release that works w/ Paint.NET v3.20. Version expiration now set so that it won't expire until Paint.NET v4.0. Edited October 15, 2018 by toe_head2001 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...
Bob Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 When saving, selecting quality 100 means lossless? No. Way. I've just seen Bob. And... *poof!*—just like that—he disappears into the mist again. ~Helio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted April 7, 2007 Author Share Posted April 7, 2007 Correct. 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...
BuzzKill Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 You can read all about HD Photo here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_Photo If I am understanding this correctly, image quality is as good(or better) as PNG and image compression is comparable to JPG? - DO NOT contact me asking for the .pdn of my avatar or the PDN logo. Thank you. Have a nice day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 Correct. What about a Label? "Quality is set to 100 so the compression will be lossless, blah blah" when lossless. "If you select a lower quality you will loss details" or something... @Buzz: I think you cannot compare WDP and PNG/JPG as there is a lossy and lossless mode. So in lossless mode the filesize can be better than PNG and in lossy mode the thing beats JPG far away. (Quick and dirty explanation) No. Way. I've just seen Bob. And... *poof!*—just like that—he disappears into the mist again. ~Helio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzKill Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 A quick and dirty explanation is just fine. Thanks Bob. - DO NOT contact me asking for the .pdn of my avatar or the PDN logo. Thank you. Have a nice day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrddin Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 Great plugin Rick, but other than PDN, does anyone know of any programs that can view HD photos (that's free )? I've gone for that HD Photo Porting Kit but nothing seems to have changed; then again I could have misunderstood its purpose and it's not what I thought it was. Having said that, I haven't restarted my lappy yet.... How to Use Images in Your Posts, Signatures, and AvatarsHow to Save Your Images under Different File Types My dA Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted April 8, 2007 Author Share Posted April 8, 2007 A quick and dirty explanation is just fine. Thanks Bob. Yeah this is just a beta/test plugin. The final version, once integrated in to Paint.NET, will have a quick explanation that 100 = lossless. 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...
David562 Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 Windows Vista had Ver. 3.0...? Cause i saw the preview... Right...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usedHONDA Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 PNG: 149KB JPEG highest quality: 99KB HD (lossless): 107KB HD (Quality at 95): 80KB EDIT: PNG: 160KB HD (lossless): 184KB "The greatest thing about the Internet is that you can write anything you want and give it a false source." ~Ezra Pound twtr | dA | tmblr | yt | fb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illnab1024 Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 Pretty nice; every image is unique compression-wise. ~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westrock Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Pretty nice; every image is unique compression-wise. As far as those two images, I have found that darker images almost always take up more space when working with the same dimensions and compression quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangix Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Pretty nice; every image is unique compression-wise.not when the PNG is compressed with PNGOUT. not even HD Photo beats that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted April 29, 2007 Author Share Posted April 29, 2007 I've updated the plugin -- see the first post in this thread for details. 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...
Indy Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 download broken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted June 1, 2007 Author Share Posted June 1, 2007 download broken Yeah I pushed the wrong button in Frontpage and it started deleting things :oops: :evil: I'll upload it again in a bit! 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...
Mazin Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 usedHONDA's results are misleading, showing at one point that HD Photo had better lossless compression than PNG. I would be surprised if anything could beat PNG, but I am working with incomplete information here. Both of his PNG images have an extra alpha channel in there. There's obviously there is no alpha to speak of, so that's superfluous data. Using optiPNG, which removed the alpha (and might've used better compression parameters), the first image (pnglogo.png) became 98427 bytes (96 kiB), better than HD Photo. The second image (hdlogo.png) is 136271 bytes (133 kiB) when optimized. It was already smaller than HD Photo. I don't know much about HD Photo. Let me know if the HD Photo export also includes extraneous image data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxst2 Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 When would this get fixed? Id really love that plug-in for some pics i have done. Thanks, AJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 I don't know if this is the very latest version, but until the official link is working again, you can download from here Edited by Rick: Sorry it took me so long, I updated the first post w/ an official, working link ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted June 16, 2007 Author Share Posted June 16, 2007 I just updated the first post with a working link. (sorry pyrochild, I edited out your link ) 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...
pyrochild Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 No need to apologize, crazy-head! It matters not where people download from, so long as they can download. ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
startreksuite Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 Alright, I downloaded and installed this dll into the file types folder in Paint.net, looked for a unblock feature in properties, and there was none. I have shut down and restarted Paint.net, because that is what is needed for most plugins, and the file extension is not present. Should I restart the computer? I have already installed net 3.0, and I am using paint.net 3.8! Any help would be much appreciated, thanks! my photobucket my blog my DA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coq Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 Hi, There's no problem with your configuration : seems that expiration date in the current linked file really was today and not September 1st. ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted July 4, 2007 Author Share Posted July 4, 2007 I just re-uploaded a version that should work now. See first post. 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...
coq Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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