Rick Brewster 888 Report post Posted April 5, 2007 NOTE: This plugin is no longer being maintained or updated. It still works though, of course. 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bob 4 Report post Posted April 7, 2007 When saving, selecting quality 100 means lossless? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rick Brewster 888 Report post Posted April 7, 2007 Correct. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BuzzKill 7 Report post 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? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bob 4 Report post 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) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BuzzKill 7 Report post Posted April 7, 2007 A quick and dirty explanation is just fine. Thanks Bob. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Myrddin 4 Report post 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.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rick Brewster 888 Report post 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
David562 0 Report post Posted April 10, 2007 Windows Vista had Ver. 3.0...? Cause i saw the preview... Right...? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
usedHONDA 4 Report post Posted April 10, 2007 PNG: 149KB JPEG highest quality: 99KB HD (lossless): 107KB HD (Quality at 95): 80KB EDIT: PNG: 160KB HD (lossless): 184KB Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Illnab1024 10 Report post Posted April 10, 2007 Pretty nice; every image is unique compression-wise. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Westrock 0 Report post 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mangix 0 Report post 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OmgWtfBbq 0 Report post Posted April 29, 2007 My Paint.NET has been crashing lately whenever I try saving a pic. Is that coz I don't have this? Or something else? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rick Brewster 888 Report post Posted April 29, 2007 My Paint.NET has been crashing lately whenever I try saving a pic. Is that coz I don't have this? Or something else? No -- it is something else. If Paint.NET is crashing, please send me the crash log (pdncrash.log should be on your desktop -- there's an e-mail address listed at the top). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OmgWtfBbq 0 Report post Posted April 29, 2007 Yea I know the one but there isn't a crash log for this. It's just the "Paint.NET has encountered an error and needs to close" then the 3 options to Debug, Send Error and Don't Send Error. I couldn't find an Error Report anywhere for it it, just some binary. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
usedHONDA 4 Report post Posted April 29, 2007 My way would be to reinstall it, but I think Rick would like to solve this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rick Brewster 888 Report post Posted April 29, 2007 Yea I know the one but there isn't a crash log for this. It's just the "Paint.NET has encountered an error and needs to close" then the 3 options to Debug, Send Error and Don't Send Error. I couldn't find an Error Report anywhere for it it, just some binary. This discussion doesn't belong here -- please move this to the Bugs & Troubleshooting forum. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rick Brewster 888 Report post Posted April 29, 2007 I've updated the plugin -- see the first post in this thread for details. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rcpax 0 Report post Posted May 19, 2007 I'm sorry for asking a noob question. Am I suppose to get a new option for file extension when I click "Save As". I think I did it right. I am running Vista, with .Net v3.0 built-in, Paint.Net v3.07, and copied the HD Photo DLL in the "FileType" directory. Still I see the same extensions, no .HDP or .WPD option. What can I expect to see with this plug-in? Basically, how do I use it. If there's a tutorial for this, please post a link. Thanks :-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bob 4 Report post Posted May 19, 2007 http://boltbait.googlepages.com/install Did you unblocked the Dll as mentioned? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rcpax 0 Report post Posted May 19, 2007 I went back, and I didn't have the "Unblock" option like in your link. However, I did get an HDPhoto option in "Save As" after a reboot. Strange, I never thought I had to do that in Vista to make this plugin work. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Indy 0 Report post Posted June 1, 2007 download broken Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rick Brewster 888 Report post 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! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lloydo 0 Report post Posted June 2, 2007 LINK IS DEAD!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
