Paint.NET

March 8, 2008
Fixed minor bugs with "Varicose".
Updated "Focal Point" with yet another (and I think the last) performance enhancement.

March 5, 2008
Updated "Soften Edges" to have better performance, several new settings, and MUCH better effect.
Updated "Focal Point" with new setting / performance enhancement.

March 2, 2008
Added "Soften Edges" effect.
Updated Focal Point to be much faster in most circumstances.

Feb 20, 2008
Initial post of Jesse Chunn Plugin Pack, including Focal Point, Stencil, Color Replace, Varicose, and Bricks.

This pack includes the following plugins (click to see post about specific plugin):

Effects->Blurs->Soften Edges
This effect attempts to detect edges that need anti-aliasing and "soften" them, or show hard edges only.

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Effects->Blurs->Focal Point
This effect allows you to select a point on an image to remain "in focus" and blurs the rest of the image.

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Effects->Artistic->Stencil
This effect will turn an image into a two color image, similar to a stencil.

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Effects->Color Replace
This effect works similarly to the magic wand, but with more control.

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Effects->Render->Varicose
Generates something like "veins" running down the screen.

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Effects->Render->Bricks
Very powerful yet very simple plugin. Most basic use is to generate "bricks" over the image, but many other more "subtle" uses if you play around with it.

Enjoy,
Jesse Chunn

Wonderful, thank you

Thank you! Which ones can I delete now? Just varicose.dll?

You can delete varicose.dll, and replace jchunn.dll with this newer one. I have also edited all of my previous posts to point to this one.

Excellent. Thank you.

Are these all written in VB.net?

Yup.

Sticky'd
Please add some screenshots to show what all the plugins are able to do if you can.

Updated original post:

Added "Soften Edges" which attempts to detect edges and soften them.

Updated "Focal Point" to be more efficient and added a quality setting.

good! like it !

thanks got it to work

Updates today:
Updated "Soften Edges" to have better performance, several new settings, and MUCH better effect.
Updated "Focal Point" with new setting / performance enhancement.

Wow, Focal Point @ Quality=3 on a 7MP image even makes my QX6700 cry a little ... (Core 2 quad-core 2.66ghz). Took about 23 minutes of CPU time as reported by Task Manager, which divided by 4 is about 5m:45s human time (divide by 4 because of 4 CPU cores each doing roughly equal work).

Cool stuff, definitely needs perf work though

Were you using the latest version (with the "blur limit" setting)?

Yes. It's just a lot of pixels to process.