Fisherman's Friend Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 The last days we got some fine plugins from you. Please continue your work. It's getting better and better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drakaan Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Not working as well as I'd like for this... Before: After: I'm pulling for ya', and if I get a chance, I'll look at the code tomorrow and try to help with smoothing this out, too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsonchiu Posted August 24, 2007 Author Share Posted August 24, 2007 Play around with the options before jumping to conclusions: Amount: 9 Strength: 926 and turn off "soft border" I got this: Quote Some links: | Personal Website | Alien Attack | Try out my plugins: | Antialias | Diagonal Lines | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drakaan Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Play around with the options before jumping to conclusions:Amount: 9 Strength: 926 and turn off "soft border" I got this: Yeah...I got that too, there's a flattening issue at the bottom of the gradient (near the edges of the image). I used about every setting combination I could think of. ...actually, I just noticed that it's even present (to a lesser extent) in my antialiased example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsonchiu Posted August 24, 2007 Author Share Posted August 24, 2007 Make the canvas size bigger (but center the object), antialias it, and then crop it. That should reduce the problem. Then, you can just brush like 3 or 4 pixels if you are a perfectionist. The bug appeared because it is impossible to determine which way the line is going without looking at further pixels. Quote Some links: | Personal Website | Alien Attack | Try out my plugins: | Antialias | Diagonal Lines | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drakaan Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Understood...I'm just frustrated that it's not simpler. It's not just your tool, g-blur and feather have issues as well on this particular task. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsonchiu Posted August 24, 2007 Author Share Posted August 24, 2007 Here's a simple work around: Just create a bigger image, and after anti-aliasing, crop to the correct size. The bug only appear on the edges, and so if you chop out the edges, it would look just fine. Btw, I hope I've made the task simpler instead of complicating things even more. Quote Some links: | Personal Website | Alien Attack | Try out my plugins: | Antialias | Diagonal Lines | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 There is always a way around it. Quote All creations Ash + Paint.NET [ Googlepage | deviantArt | Club PDN | PDN Fan ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsonchiu Posted August 24, 2007 Author Share Posted August 24, 2007 The plugin can yield superior smoothing results on any kind of shapes if you are willing to let the object to grow 10+px on the edges. @Ash That's pretty good. You use the antialias plugin for the highlight and the bluish-green shape? or did you just motion blur them? Btw, there's one thing this plugin cannot do, and that is smoothing a very thin line (1px or even 2 px) while keeping it thin. However, I don't think that's ever possible. Quote Some links: | Personal Website | Alien Attack | Try out my plugins: | Antialias | Diagonal Lines | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Since you plugin works best with Alpha=255, I made the shape with alpha=255, then use the plugin. Then :LinearGradient: in :AlphaChannel: mode. Done. Quote All creations Ash + Paint.NET [ Googlepage | deviantArt | Club PDN | PDN Fan ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drakaan Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Since you plugin works best with Alpha=255, I made the shape with alpha=255, then use the plugin.Then :LinearGradient: in :AlphaChannel: mode. Done. Ahh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsonchiu Posted August 24, 2007 Author Share Posted August 24, 2007 Since you plugin works best with Alpha=255, I made the shape with alpha=255, then use the plugin.Then :LinearGradient: in :AlphaChannel: mode. Done. I think my plugin now works equally well on any alpha values. I've fixed the "dark outline" bug. Quote Some links: | Personal Website | Alien Attack | Try out my plugins: | Antialias | Diagonal Lines | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Since you plugin works best with Alpha=255, I made the shape with alpha=255, then use the plugin.Then :LinearGradient: in :AlphaChannel: mode. Done. I think my plugin now works equally well on any alpha values. I've fixed the "dark outline" bug. Yes, I tried all the settings, and in some cases your plugin works well, but in other cases, Using my method will be needed. I like this plugin a lot in case you didn't know Quote All creations Ash + Paint.NET [ Googlepage | deviantArt | Club PDN | PDN Fan ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drakaan Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Ash, I don't know if it's because I have a concave edge on my shape and yours is convex, or something else, but I don't get a result that smooth regardless of who's method I use. My only surefire way to do it is to make the image about 4x the final size I want, make the selection, etc, and resize down. Can you repeat your experiment with a concave selection edge, so I can see the result? Particularly when the concave edge is the bottom edge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Using the same method: Let me know what steps you took? Quote All creations Ash + Paint.NET [ Googlepage | deviantArt | Club PDN | PDN Fan ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blooper101 Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Awesome! Downloading right now! As well as checking out other plug-ins from you! Enough exclamation points! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cris Zeldahh.it Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 the can't belive it!! it is fantastic! thanks for the plugin!!! Quote I'm Italian! speak English slooooowly!!! XDDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsonchiu Posted August 26, 2007 Author Share Posted August 26, 2007 I think I fixed the uneven anti-alias (which was causing either low alpha not anti-aliased, or high alpha got too blured) on alpha gradient. Phew! I hope we don't have any more bugs! Also, added a menu icon! Quote Some links: | Personal Website | Alien Attack | Try out my plugins: | Antialias | Diagonal Lines | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidtayhs Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 Thanks, jsnchiu, for a truly excellent plugin! It works beautifully without blurring the image. Will the moderators consider stickying this plugin? Works wonderfully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moc426 Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 Can you keep the same file name for the plugin, you can set the version in the dll itself, but having multiple filenames is annoying, esp. having to delete the first and copy over the new one. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsonchiu Posted August 26, 2007 Author Share Posted August 26, 2007 I can't set versions to dll files because I'm using codelab. You know, I only have Visual Studio .NET 2003, and I can't make any plugins with that. Quote Some links: | Personal Website | Alien Attack | Try out my plugins: | Antialias | Diagonal Lines | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 The file name is fine this way IMO Quote All creations Ash + Paint.NET [ Googlepage | deviantArt | Club PDN | PDN Fan ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moc426 Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 Ok well maybe you can zip it and name the zip the name with version and the file in the zip can stay the same name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 Ok well maybe you can zip it and name the zip the name with version and the file in the zip can stay the same name. That will work too Quote All creations Ash + Paint.NET [ Googlepage | deviantArt | Club PDN | PDN Fan ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonpyro Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 I mentioned something like this on the feather plug-in post... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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