Can this be done in IrfanView?

Corel Photo-Paint can do this. In fact it can do most of what the big guns
do - you just got to have a little patience.

Jim

"M.L." wrote in message ...



An effect I use fairly often is a highlighted section like this:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/ExampleHighlight.jpg
(Well, strictly it's a relative 'dimming' of the non-selected area.)

To do this I have to break off from working in IrfanView and load up
resource-hungry PaintShop Pro 8, a bit of a chore.

Over the years I've been delighted to find various features in IrfanView
that I wasn't aware of. I don't think this is one, but I'd appreciate
confirmation please.

Alternatively, any other fast-loading freeware tool that loads fast that
can do it?

Irfanview can't do it since it doesn't offer the masking needed to
perform that task. However, some freeware programs can do that task
easily once you learn how to create and invert a mask, then lower the
brightness on the masked area.

The following are easy to use and allow you to move your masks.

Hornil StylePix Free
OS: Win XP/2003/Vista/2008/7
http://hornil.com/en/products/stylepix/Features.html

Photofiltre 7
OS: Win NT/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7
http://www.photofiltre-studio.com/pf7-en.htm

PixBuilder Studio
OS: Win XP/Vista/7
http://www.wnsoft.com/pixbuilder

In rec.photo.digital Terry Pinnell wrote:
Eric Stevens wrote:

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 07:41:53 +0100, Terry Pinnell
wrote:

Bear wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote in
m:

An effect I use fairly often is a highlighted section like this:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/ExampleHighlight.jpg
(Well, strictly it's a relative 'dimming' of the non-selected area.)

To do this I have to break off from working in IrfanView and load up
resource-hungry PaintShop Pro 8, a bit of a chore.

Over the years I've been delighted to find various features in
IrfanView that I wasn't aware of. I don't think this is one, but I'd
appreciate confirmation please.

Alternatively, any other fast-loading freeware tool that loads fast
that can do it?


The fastest way I know how to do something similar is to use Google's
Chrome Screen Shot extension and choose "capture page region"
(CTRL+ALT+R) and use the printscreen button to capture the desktop,
paste new image into Photofilter and crop the image to your liking.

When you choose page region, the entire page darkens except for the
selection box which you can move and size to the area of interest.

http://bearware.info/screenshots/example.png

Thanks, but I don't use Chrome.

I'm not clear why you'd use it? Or the PrtScr button? I've just installed
Photofiltre and that does it OK on its own. BTW, it seems unable to draw a
circle around a chosen point; is that possible please?

If only PaintShopPro 8 wasn't so slow to load and heavy on resources that
would be my obvious choice, as I'm so familiar with it.

What kind of machine and what operating system are you running? From
your comments, I suspect you are labouring under a burden of age.

Regards,

Eric Stevens

See my post 2 mins earlier ;-)

As for 'burden of age', that's certainly applicable to me! But I just
cheerfully keep taking the pills...

Hope they're not the same pills my doc had me taking to help my
failing elderly physiology. I felt so much younger when I stopped
taking them :-)

--
Chris Malcolm

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:56:48 -0500, M.L. wrote:

An effect I use fairly often is a highlighted section like this:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/ExampleHighlight.jpg
(Well, strictly it's a relative 'dimming' of the non-selected area.)

Terry, Irfanview has a plugin called RGBSpot that will do what
you want. Very easy to use.
A quick and dirty specimen I did here.
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2...pboard0221.jpg

Do you have a link to the RGBSpot plugin?

I forget how I came to get the plugin but on
the Irfan Forum there is this link, maybe you can
find it there.
https://irfanview-forum.de/showthrea...hlight=rgbspot

Thanks for your response. Unfortunately the rgbspot.zip link on that
page was dead.

Yes, that plug-in sounded exactly what I need, but that link fails. Its
initial source appeared to be Sam_Zen but all his other links
unfortunately also failed.

Would it be possible to email me the file rgbspot3.8bf please?

It would be better to share that elusive file with the entire
community by uploading it to a public online sharing service such as
yousendit.com, filedropper.com, Dropbox, Adrive, Skydrive, Mediadire,
Badongo or a multitude of similar free services.

I tried uploading it at this site.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/q4h7kg...8/rgbspot2.8bf

In article , ,
Chris Malcolm says...

In rec.photo.digital Terry Pinnell wrote:
Eric Stevens wrote:

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 07:41:53 +0100, Terry Pinnell
wrote:

Bear wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote in
m:

An effect I use fairly often is a highlighted section like this:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/ExampleHighlight.jpg
(Well, strictly it's a relative 'dimming' of the non-selected area.)

To do this I have to break off from working in IrfanView and load up
resource-hungry PaintShop Pro 8, a bit of a chore.

Over the years I've been delighted to find various features in
IrfanView that I wasn't aware of. I don't think this is one, but I'd
appreciate confirmation please.

Alternatively, any other fast-loading freeware tool that loads fast
that can do it?


The fastest way I know how to do something similar is to use Google's
Chrome Screen Shot extension and choose "capture page region"
(CTRL+ALT+R) and use the printscreen button to capture the desktop,
paste new image into Photofilter and crop the image to your liking.

When you choose page region, the entire page darkens except for the
selection box which you can move and size to the area of interest.

http://bearware.info/screenshots/example.png

Thanks, but I don't use Chrome.

I'm not clear why you'd use it? Or the PrtScr button? I've just installed
Photofiltre and that does it OK on its own. BTW, it seems unable to draw a
circle around a chosen point; is that possible please?

If only PaintShopPro 8 wasn't so slow to load and heavy on resources that
would be my obvious choice, as I'm so familiar with it.

What kind of machine and what operating system are you running? From
your comments, I suspect you are labouring under a burden of age.

Regards,

Eric Stevens

See my post 2 mins earlier ;-)

As for 'burden of age', that's certainly applicable to me! But I just
cheerfully keep taking the pills...

Hope they're not the same pills my doc had me taking to help my
failing elderly physiology. I felt so much younger when I stopped
taking them :-)

Tried it, Irfanview just crashes for me.

--
Duncan.

Would it be possible to email me the file rgbspot3.8bf please?

I tried uploading it at this site.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/q4h7kg...8/rgbspot2.8bf

rgbspot3.8bf crashed Irfanview on my Vista system. rgbspot2.8bf
worked. Thanks.