Re: [FYI] I'm working on another PS plugin... in Digital Imaging http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r16195390 en Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:52:35 EDT Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:52:35 EDT Re: [FYI] I'm working on another PS plugin... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16203503 McSummation : Yep. fourboxers See Profile clued in this, obviously, lost noob. :huh:

I'm learning how to use the PLB plug-in. There's a lot of function there already and it looks like you've got more planned.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16203503 Tue, 30 May 2006 22:19:12 EDT Re: [FYI] I'm working on another PS plugin... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16202722 pog :
said by McSummation See Profile :

Dumb question from a noob PS user. This is a .plb file, the others I've downloaded from you are .8bf files. My PS v4 does not appear to recognize the .plb file. So, what is a .plb file?
The .plb file is a settings file for the last filter (.8bf) that I uploaded... »Re: [FYI] I'm working on another PS plugin...
.plb ... pog's lab blender :)

You can save and open settings with this last version, IOW.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16197111 Mon, 29 May 2006 23:02:40 EDT Re: [FYI] I'm working on another PS plugin... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16195390 jaykaykay : If this works as well as your other plug-ins, you've made it a whole lot easier for others to understand and do some phenomenal work. Thank you so much for sharing with us your talents, not only in photography but in writing plug-ins too.
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For anyone that does not know why "Lab" is kewl
I didn't until you came out with your first LAB plugin, and now it's a staple in my arsenal; sometimes I'm surprised at the difference it makes! Looking forward to this one, though I admit that at my level, I often use the first one at just the default settings. Haven't yet mastered the thinking behind adjusting each, though the explanation you provided in your post here should go a long way towards getting me started.
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For anyone that does not know why "Lab" is kewl: »LAB Edits - Side by side

Anyway, the controls are basically the same as before. I don't have a decent histogram working yet but there are some image stats... the stats are based on the portion of the image displayed in the preview only. Still, this is the main reason I started writing this plugin... I was having a very hard time keeping things within the RBG working space. The stats should be helpful.
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It's not actually non-destructive... but it's close enough for me. :)
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The other reason for writing this plugin was for me to see first hand how one thing affects another... this is why there are so many sliders... and why they have so much range. I don't know that any of this is better than what could be accomplished natively with Photoshop/et al... but I think it would be pretty hard to duplicate some of the effects of this plugin...

Anyway, if anyone's interested, here's the updated plugin along with 2 presets that were used in this post (save/load of presets is working now :))
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As before, unzip to your plugins folder... this is still alpha software, so it's not all prettied up or fully tested yet.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16192135 Mon, 29 May 2006 05:50:47 EDT Re: [FYI] I'm working on another PS plugin... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16186597 iSpark : Thanks for your hard work pog, it's really appreciated.
I liked your last plug-in and use it often.
This one looks really good, I'll try it out, and thanks again.
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Every now and then, I get the PS plugin bug... :) This time, I want to make my existing Lab plugin a little more complicated so I have a lot of sliders and buttons on this work-in-progress! This is my second day on this... but I hope it's usable.

Just to be clear, the file below seems to work fine, is virus-free, and might be fun! It is, however, an alpha version... This plugin works with any Windows program capable of hosting Photoshop plugins (of the .8bf variety). Sorry, no Macs. Unzip the .8bf file, drop it into your plugins folder, restart your application... most of you knew that already, I think! :)
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I will try to explain how it works. The basic idea is to take an 8-bit RGB image, convert it to floating point Lab mode, then do an overlay blend with itself, and finally convert back to 8-bit RGB. Many of the steps along the way are configurable.
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1) Input - bottom layer tuning:
•lightness power: applies a simple curve to the L channel
•black/white points: levels adjustments for L channel (can go outside the normal range by a very large margin)
•gray point: as expected, I think.
•a and b power: applies a curve to a and b Lab channels.
•monotone output: if checked, the image's varying color values are ignored for this layer and a constant a/b value is used (next two sliders).
2) Input - top layer tuning: identical controls to bottom layer
3) Blend - overlay tuning:
•L/a/b opacities: specifies the amount of the image in step 1) to show vs the result of the blend. Sliding all the way to the left shows only the step 1) image. All the way right, is 100% blend.
•threshhold: a regular overlay blend is part "multiply" and part "screen"... the threshhold for deciding which blend to use is 50%. This slider lets you set it differently... it's probably only useful at 0, 0.5 and 1, though.
•L/a/b amplifiers: just my attempt to preserve the interesting effects I got from my horrible math in the other plugin. These are inserted as coefficients to the overlay math... by default (at 0.000), they do nothing.
4) output tuning:
These are largely the same as already described in 1). These applied to the result from step 3) but before re-conversion to RGB. The button for "grayscale" acts on RGB data, though (floating point)... and is a simple average (RGB/3).

The 4 little lock buttons are for use with the random/reset buttons. When enabled, those areas are immune to the random/reset functions.

There's a lot to tweak here, I think... any feedback would be most welcome!!!

PS... please remember to turn of the clipping warning before applying the filter... otherwise those warnings will be inserted in the output. (I will fix this later).
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