![]() I see people asking for it in 2006, and they’re still asking for it ten years later in 2016. But the use-case for defringe is different - you already have the cutout, and you just want to quickly clean its edges without wholesale loss/shrinkage. It appears to basically work the same as the older clunky masking plugins, where you have to paint lines around the object. See: as if 'Magenta' moves 'Green' to the edge. It’s probably overkill for such a simple task, even if it would work as a plugin in PhotoLine. 37850, from here) and Ive noticed its menu looking a bit wrong now. There doesn’t seem to be anything that goes the other way, and simply shrinks the edge of a selection by 2px and then removes the excess.ģ) Possibly Topaz Mask AI, but that was not tested. And a ‘1px expander’, which will do the opposite of defringe and make your colour flats fit better underneath lineart. Interestingly the pack that has AA’s Assistant also has several plugins useful for casual/occasional comics work, including a rather nice and flexible speech-balloon maker. But it works by softening the edge, which is only really useful for compositing a cutout with a base picture. A better choice, or a fallback in some circumstances, is perhaps BoltBait’s Plugin Pack which has in it Object | Feather Object which works nicely when compositing several pictures together. ![]() Best for “can’t quite see it, but know it’s there” fringing. However, it struggles to deal with noticeable fringing. Paint.NET’s own plugin AA’s Assistant is what you want here. It’s very fast, fast enough to use as if were a plugin, and it does the round-trip to PhotoLine fine. It works quickly and is likely to be best as your ‘first try’ option on a cutout.Ģ) If that fails then one can use the free Paint.NET in PhotoLine as if it were a plugin (call it as an External). Along with the lack of a ‘Sponge’ desaturate brush tool, this is one of a couple of curious oversights that could be easily rectified and thus make life easier for image compositors and colourists.Īnyway there are several options for Actions or plugins which can do defringing in PhotoLine…ġ) There’s a useful and adjustable defringe action for PhotoLine, for free. For example…įor some reason, PhotoLine does not have a native ‘Defringe’ tool like Photoshop does. How to defringe, like you can in Photoshop? I don’t mean chromatic fringing from a digital camera picture, I mean removing the rim of edge pixels you get, when you make a good-enough cutout. This plugin is incompatible with this version of roadblock in PhotoLine, partly got through. Type: TransparencyEffect.TransparencyEffectPluginĬopyright: Adjust the transparency of a selection v1.2.0.7 - Fixed: Compatibility fixes for the new format of the Plugin Index. Did I somehow snag the wrong packs?Ĭ:\Program Files\\Effects\Transparency.dll, version. Welcome to Paint.NET 5. Except I just went and got what I thought were the latest version of both BoltBait's and Pyrochild's packs. I am trying to follow the tutorial for Shiny Letters using an alpha mask, subbing a newer alpha mask plug-in for the one specified in the tutorial.Įrror message as follows (all error messages say the plug-ins are incompatible, so I've just listed their names. ![]() I have a whole batch of plug-ins, many from what I *thought* was BoltBait's latest pack, including Bevel Selection but I am missing a number of tools in Object and Render and elsewhere which I remember as being there before the last update.
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