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Can this be done in IrfanView?
Terry Pinnell wrote in
: mike wrote: SNIP... change brightness, select region again and paste. Depends on your ability to get the selection exact. Thanks Mike, but apart from the precision needed that you rightly point out, IrfanView can only make a *rectangular* selection as far as I know, so the task I described is not in its repertoire. IMO its not just a free selection tool that is needed but one with a feathered selection facility. For general photography brightening a sharp selection will show a sharp edge IME not very pretty. Of course if the image consists of sharply defined geometric shapes etc then there is less of an issue though I find a feathering of 2 pixels still improves the effect. The only programs IME that offer selection feathering are bloatware Photoshop or the Gimp though perhaps the latest editions of Xnview, Photofiltre, Hornil Stylepix or similar now have this facility? |
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Thanks David. Perhaps I'm exaggerating the slowness. And I'm referring to
the speed from a cold start, not with PSP8 already running. A 4000 x 3000 JPG takes about 6 seconds to open using R-click Open with PSP8 from its Explorer folder. IrfanView, FastStone Viewer and PhotoFiltre are under a second. Although now getting old, this PC is still fairly well specified. 'MESH GTS Xtreme', Quad Core Q9450 2.66 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 667 MHz, 512 MB nVIDIA GeoForce 8800GT 2 x 750 GB Serial ATA2 HDs, plus external 1 TB and 2 TB WD 'My Book' drives. I *would* like more RAM; that 4 MB is apparently not fully usable under XP, so in practice it's under 3 MB. Guess that will have to wait until I face the hassle and aggro of re-installing everything on a new PC, presumably Win 7 or 8. Note also my other point; it's not just the speed of starting PSP8 that irks, but also its CPU and memory usage. Terry, East Grinstead, UK ================================================== Yes, around 3 GB (not 3 MB!) is about the limit under a 32-bit version of Windows, but that's plenty for PSP8. If you get the appropriate version of Windows-7, it includes a Windows XP Virtual PC (which you can download), so your existing software could run under that - there may be no need to migrate. Other virtual PC software is available. If you keep PSP8 open, rather than close it each time, likely the Open With time would be much reduced. Cheers, David -- SatSignal Software - Quality software written to your requirements Web: http://www.satsignal.eu Email: |
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Can this be done in IrfanView?
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:18:15 +0100, Terry Pinnell wrote:
mike wrote: On 6/23/2012 5:59 AM, Terry Pinnell 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.) 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? Not particularly clean, but you can select, cut selection, image/enhance colors change brightness, select region again and paste. Depends on your ability to get the selection exact. Thanks Mike, but apart from the precision needed that you rightly point out, IrfanView can only make a *rectangular* selection as far as I know, so the task I described is not in its repertoire. 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 |
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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? |
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On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:45:19 -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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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Terry Pinnell wrote in
: Spamblk wrote: SNIP... The only programs IME that offer selection feathering are bloatware Photoshop or the Gimp though perhaps the latest editions of Xnview, Photofiltre, Hornil Stylepix or similar now have this facility? And, of course, the program I use: PaintShop Pro 8. There may be other medium size or small raster graphics editors that have this facility and perhaps someone could post the details to this NG if there are. There are quite a few editors out there most of which I havent tried: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...aphics_editors |
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Can this be done in IrfanView?
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:41:08 +0100, Terry Pinnell wrote:
I'm pasting this relevant reply from alt.comp.freeware. (I'd hoped *all* posts would go to both groups, following my original, but apparently not.) p-0^0-h the cat wrote: On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:57:02 -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. Pooh the cat, researcher extraordinaire presents http://www.samshuijzen.nl/sam/samzen/links.html#plugz http://www.samshuijzen.nl/sam/samzen...ew/rgbspot3.7z Thanks for rooting those out. I've downloaded them but I haven't much of a clue how to install and use them in IrfanView, so hopefully someone who does will be along soon. Executing C:\Program Files\IrfanView\Plugins\Adobe 8BF\rgbspot3.8bf asked me for my Adobe PhotoShop Elements licence code. Instead I chose the option for a free trial (which apparently wouldn't let me *use* the effects, only *preview* them I found from further research, even if I got that far.) That started Adobe PSP Elements, which I know nothing about and don't want to learn now. I closed that. I then d-clicked the other version I'd placed here C:\Program Files\IrfanView\Plugins\Adobe 8BF\rgbspot2.8bf and that did some processing (installing?), without the message, and again opened Adobe. I closed that. Not sure what to do next. Help! ta da Let me know if it works plooose. This guys has loads of stuff, and he's got a beard, so he must be serious... From my research earlier I found he was very ill in 2007 and seemed to stop active web activity. So I have a horrible feeling that Sam Shuijzen (user name often Sam_Zen) may have died. The pathway I use is this, OPen an image file in Irfanview, then Click on (Toolbar) IMAGE/Effects/Adobe8BF,'then select the plugin from the dropdown list. |
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