PhotoFiltre Plug-ins

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Harry Owen

I have just downloaded the eight available plug-ins from the PhotoFiltre
website and have tried installing three of them - Arithmetic, Capture
and FractionnementHTML.

When I go to the toolbar "Tools/plug-ins" in PhotoFiltre only one of the
three installed plug-ins shows (Arithmetic), I have checked the plug-in
folder and the three plugs-in are in the folder.

It is quite possible that I am attempting to install them in the wrong
manner! I unzipped the files into a temporary folder and then just
copied the .PFL file into the PhotoFiltre plug-ins folder.

What is the right way to install the plug-ins and has anyone got all of
the plug-ins working?

Harry
 
Harry Owen said:
I have just downloaded the eight available plug-ins from the PhotoFiltre
website and have tried installing three of them - Arithmetic, Capture
and FractionnementHTML.

When I go to the toolbar "Tools/plug-ins" in PhotoFiltre only one of the
three installed plug-ins shows (Arithmetic), I have checked the plug-in
folder and the three plugs-in are in the folder.

It is quite possible that I am attempting to install them in the wrong
manner! I unzipped the files into a temporary folder and then just
copied the .PFL file into the PhotoFiltre plug-ins folder.

What is the right way to install the plug-ins and has anyone got all of
the plug-ins working?

Harry
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The menu in which a plug-in is located seems to depend upon type - the
Arithmetic plug-in (which I can't make head nor tail of - any hints anyone?)
is under Tools. The only other plug-ins I've installed are Histogram and
Mirror Effect, both of which are in the Image/Plug-in menu...Have a look in
all the different menu selections for a plug-in sub-menu and you'll
hopefully find the rest.

hth

coma
 
c_e said:
The menu in which a plug-in is located seems to depend upon type - the
Arithmetic plug-in (which I can't make head nor tail of - any hints
anyone?) is under Tools. The only other plug-ins I've installed are
Histogram and Mirror Effect, both of which are in the Image/Plug-in
menu...Have a look in all the different menu selections for a plug-in
sub-menu and you'll hopefully find the rest.

hth

coma
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First the answers to Harry Owen's questions:

All the plug-ins are indeed installed in the same directory, do you have to
compliment your self for doing it all right

The screencapture plugin is aviable form the menu
"file" ==> "Import" ==> "Screen capture..."
While theFractionnementHTML is aviale from
"File"==> "Export" ==> "HTML Split..."

Maybe not the location where you might expect them, but in a way, it does
make sense, I think.'


As for the Arithmetic plugin:

As you might know, a pixel is often represented as a combined value created
by the 3 primary colors: Red, Green and Blue.

Most of the time, ech of the Red, green and Blue values (here after RGB) can
have a value between (and including) 0 and 256. an RGB value of 0,0,0 will
be black, wile an RGB value of 256,256,256 will be white. this means that
you can have 256^3 = 16.777.216 different shade of collors (and non colors
as black, white and gray)

But when you reprisent these colors as a value, or even better, as a binairy
value, you can do math with these values, both matematical (add, substract,
multiply, device, ect...) and logical (and, or, xor, not, nand, ect...)
values the resulting values will be used as pixels in the resulting picture.

practical example: open any jpeg picture, start the Arithmetic plugin
and enter " I1 - I1 " (Without the "'s of course) and ask a preview the
result will be black (value x - value x = 0) the formula "I1 / I1 " wil also
apear black since this wil result in the value of 1

Adding a pictue to an othe picture wil always make the picture lighter in
color, same as substracting will make it darker. to get any usefull results,
you should experiment much wiht it.

Try an other one: open 2 pictuers (preferably of the same size, on being
very colorfull - i1 (or just create a picture with a gradient) and the other
having some contrast - i2)
Then open the Arithmetic plugin and enter the following formule
"AvgRGB(I2)+ I1 - AvgRGB(I1)"

the result will be a picture showing the scrutute (contrast) of the i2
picture, using the colors of the i1 picture..

I hope this will give you an idea you can use it for (though I settle for
'not having confused you any further';-) )


MightyKitten
 
As for the Arithmetic plugin:

As you might know, a pixel is often represented as a combined value created
by the 3 primary colors: Red, Green and Blue.

Most of the time, ech of the Red, green and Blue values (here after RGB) can
have a value between (and including) 0 and 256. an RGB value of 0,0,0 will
be black, wile an RGB value of 256,256,256 will be white. this means that
you can have 256^3 = 16.777.216 different shade of collors (and non colors
as black, white and gray)

But when you reprisent these colors as a value, or even better, as a binairy
value, you can do math with these values, both matematical (add, substract,
multiply, device, ect...) and logical (and, or, xor, not, nand, ect...)
values the resulting values will be used as pixels in the resulting picture.

practical example: open any jpeg picture, start the Arithmetic plugin
and enter " I1 - I1 " (Without the "'s of course) and ask a preview the
result will be black (value x - value x = 0) the formula "I1 / I1 " wil also
apear black since this wil result in the value of 1

Adding a pictue to an othe picture wil always make the picture lighter in
color, same as substracting will make it darker. to get any usefull results,
you should experiment much wiht it.

Try an other one: open 2 pictuers (preferably of the same size, on being
very colorfull - i1 (or just create a picture with a gradient) and the other
having some contrast - i2)
Then open the Arithmetic plugin and enter the following formule
"AvgRGB(I2)+ I1 - AvgRGB(I1)"

the result will be a picture showing the scrutute (contrast) of the i2
picture, using the colors of the i1 picture..

I hope this will give you an idea you can use it for (though I settle for
'not having confused you any further';-) )


MightyKitten
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Many thanks for the info - far from confusing me, you've got me to the
point where I get more out of the thing than an "invalid syntax" error
message ;) Just a few minutes messing about with it and I've had some nice,
if unpredictable (to me at any rate) results, cheers!

coma
 
The screencapture plugin is aviable form the menu
"file" ==> "Import" ==> "Screen capture..."
While theFractionnementHTML is aviale from
"File"==> "Export" ==> "HTML Split..."

Maybe not the location where you might expect them, but in a way, it does
make sense, I think.'
Click to expand...


Thanks MightyKitten for the response, I have now managed to locate most
the plug-ins in the menus that you suggested.

Cheers - Harry
 
The menu in which a plug-in is located seems to depend upon type - the
Arithmetic plug-in (which I can't make head nor tail of - any hints anyone?)
is under Tools. The only other plug-ins I've installed are Histogram and
Mirror Effect, both of which are in the Image/Plug-in menu...Have a look in
all the different menu selections for a plug-in sub-menu and you'll
hopefully find the rest.
Click to expand...

I have installed eight plug-ins and have now located most of them thanks
to you and MightyKitten.


Cheers - Harry
 
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