Paint.NET

I have created a "Conditional Hue/Saturation" effect plug-in for PDN. It basically just goes through the image and analyzes the hue and saturation values of the pixel, checks it against the range specified by the user, and then takes the appropriate action, which may be a hue shift, saturation shift or hue fade. While not much of a technical achievement I've found it useful for quick changes that could be done "by hand" but are a one-pass action with this effect.

Below are some before and after shots.







Effect dialog screen shot:



Download link:
http://www.evanolds.com/dl/CondHSAdj.dll

Plug-in Page:
http://www.evanolds.com/pdnhs.html

Last Update: March 3, 2007

Pretty cool effect...it works well!
Some neat results may be obtained! Thanks!

Great plugin! I think I will find myself using quite a bit.

Thanks!

Wow spot the difference. Especially in the last photo. If you are anything like me, which is mostly rubbish, it would have taken you about half a minute to figure it out!


It looks like a very very lovely plugin. I would use it if I knew how to instal them, hoewver I don't know, and so I will have to instead dream about it in my dreams when I sleep tonight. Thank you evanolds.

aatwo, extract the driver (.dll) from the zip and place it in the "Effects" folder in the "Paint.NET" directory. The next time you start Paint.NET it will be located in the "Effects" menu.

Are you going to release the source code of your plugin ?

Ok I finally was able to spot the difference ...

Ok, if you'd like the source code it's posted (link below). This is just a zip of the project file as it was when I compiled the release version. You may have to fiddle with the project settings to get it to compile (if your Paint.NET installation directory is different than mine for example).

Feel free to use it as a framework for your effect, in fact this is the main reason I'm releasing it. Just replace my code with your own.

Note that there are sections that are commented out and even some unused sections of code (I think I may have left in some if statements that are impossible to be executed in the given context). You may have to sort through some of my messy code if you want to use this to see how PDN plug-ins work, but I'm hoping that is doable for most C# programmers with some graphics programming experience.


http://www.evanolds.com/HueSatFilterSrc.zip

*jumps on the boat late*

I just tried this out the other day. This is an excellent plugin! Big thumbs up.

I installed this plugin today thanks to Buzzkill who should have a statue made of him or something for helping me.


evanolds you are hardcore because this plugin is so awesome it should be permanently integrated into paint.net.

I've a Localization Fever and so a few questions:
1. Is this 3rd-party effect localizable?
2. Are/can third-party effects localizables?

yeah like in the help section there should be a button opening a browser to evanolds' site...

am muchly impressed!

Bob, There is no resource file that you can change the strings, but there is some capability of it (With evan's permission, of course )