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| HISsparrow 2006-08-02, 12:10 pm |
| Hi,
I finally broke down and got PSP 9, installed it the other day and ran the midas touch script with no prob. I had placed it in my "restricted" scripts folder. In fact, it worked like a charm. Went to use it today and it wouldn't work on anything. Tried another script on same graphic and it worked fine. Uninstalled midas touch script. Reset group and downloaded the old script. Reinstalled that and it still wouldn't work. So...uninstalled and reinstalled PSP 9 AND reinstalled script, still wouldn't work.
Would anyone have any idea what is going on? I'm stuck now! Thanks for any and all help!
blessings,
Carla
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| On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 08:56:13 -0500, "HISsparrow"
<iam@gointoheaven.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I finally broke down and got PSP 9, installed it the other day and ran the midas touch script with no prob. I had placed it in my "restricted" scripts folder. In fact, it worked like a charm. Went to use it today and it wouldn't work on anything. Tried a
nother script on same graphic and it worked fine. Uninstalled midas touch script. Reset group and downloaded the old script. Reinstalled that and it still wouldn't work. So...uninstalled and reinstalled PSP 9 AND reinstalled script, still wouldn't work.
>
>Would anyone have any idea what is going on? I'm stuck now! Thanks for any and all help!
>
>blessings,
>Carla
"Wouldn't Work" covers such a broad range of problems, it's difficult
to say which would be the problem. Perhaps if you told us what you
saw happening, we could give a little help. Was there any message in
the Scrip out6put display?
RonV
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| HISsparrow 2006-08-02, 12:10 pm |
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| Spandex Rutabaga 2006-08-02, 12:10 pm |
| HISsparrow wrote:
> When I click to activate the script, the pic I am working on is black in the
> preview of the chrome effects, whereas it was a burgundy color when I
> originally used it,
The image you attached is yellowish or vaguely gold. When you say
the image "was a burgundy color when I originally used it", I take
it you mean that the original was a yellow color but that in the
left preview of the Chrome filter the image looked burgundy. Is
that a correct interpretation of what you wrote?
> then when it goes to apply the final effect, and I click
> on the med. gold color,
Click on the "med. gold color" in what part of the program at which
point in the script?
> that's exactly what I get. A flat gold image, with
> none of the original texture or lines available.
There isn't much to this script. It does three things in order:
1. Hot Wax specifying a light blue foreground color.
2. Chrome filter.
3. Black and White Points using a setting that leave black and
white unchanged but shifts neutral midtones to a gold color.
When I test the script it appears there is some flakiness in PSP 9
in relation to the Hot Wax filter. The very first time I ran the
script, the Hot Wax command in the script appeared to ignore the
color specified for the command and use what was in my foreground
swatch. This was white so the door remained yellowish after Hot
Wax except that the shadow lines/edges were darkened. The second
time I ran the script the color stored in the script was used and
the door came out green with the window light blue. Your burgundy
could have resulted from whatever you had in the foreground swatch
when the script was run.
Try this. Set your foreground color to R = 70, G = 180 and B = 250.
Then run Hot Wax. Look at your image and remember its appearance.
Now undo the Hot Wax application and run the Midas Touch script.
Does the left preview in the Chrome filter look like the result of
Hot Wax that you remember?
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| On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:55:56 -0500, "HISsparrow"
<iam@gointoheaven.com> wrote:
>Thanks for answering, and yes, it does cover a broad spectrum, sorry about
>that.
>
>When I click to activate the script, the pic I am working on is black in the
>preview of the chrome effects, whereas it was a burgundy color when I
>originally used it, then when it goes to apply the final effect, and I click
>on the med. gold color, that's exactly what I get. A flat gold image, with
>none of the original texture or lines available.
>
>I have even tried "selecting" just the pic and working it that way.
>Unfortunately to no avail. I tried greyscaling the image also, that didn't
>work either.
>
>I am including a screen shot below of both step 1 and 2 and also a jpg of
>the original image I wanted to use. Thanks again for looking and trying to
>help!
>
>blessings,
>Carla
>
OK, This is a guess, but it looks as if you'd made the window in the
door transparent and ran the Midus script with that area still
selected. The script applied the effects to a transparent area and it
remained transparent. (the script only works within the active
selection or the entire image, and a non transparent part of the layer
must be selected.
I ran my script on your image with expected results.
I made a selection of the window, promoted the layer to normal, and
ran the script and it failed. (no color within the selection.)
I inverted the selection so that the door was within the selection,
and it worked correctly.
Care to try again?
RonV
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| On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:05:18 -0500, Spandex Rutabaga
<SpRu@agabatur.xednaps> wrote:
>There isn't much to this script. It does three things in order:
>1. Hot Wax specifying a light blue foreground color.
>2. Chrome filter.
>3. Black and White Points using a setting that leave black and
> white unchanged but shifts neutral midtones to a gold color.
>
>When I test the script it appears there is some flakiness in PSP 9
>in relation to the Hot Wax filter. The very first time I ran the
>script, the Hot Wax command in the script appeared to ignore the
>color specified for the command and use what was in my foreground
>swatch. This was white so the door remained yellowish after Hot
>Wax except that the shadow lines/edges were darkened. The second
>time I ran the script the color stored in the script was used and
>the door came out green with the window light blue. Your burgundy
>could have resulted from whatever you had in the foreground swatch
>when the script was run.
>
>Try this. Set your foreground color to R = 70, G = 180 and B = 250.
>Then run Hot Wax. Look at your image and remember its appearance.
>Now undo the Hot Wax application and run the Midas Touch script.
>Does the left preview in the Chrome filter look like the result of
>Hot Wax that you remember?
I'd forgotten that little 'Gotcha'. When 9 came out, some of the
tools had to be 'Primed' in order to work correctly. I recall firing
up the program, doing some ops that failed, then when I tried again,
they worked.
Also, now that I think about it, I believe some versions used the
swatches for the Hot Wax, and if the hue was very dark, the hot Wax
effect would make the entire active area a dark hue. Worth changing.
RonV
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| HISsparrow 2006-08-02, 12:10 pm |
| Bless yer pea-pickin lil heart Spandex!!!!!! You were correct in that I
hadn't noticed that my foreground color DUH!!!!!! was set to black. Geez, if
it would have been a snake, it would have bit me!!!!!!! Workin like a charm
once again!! Gotta love that shiney stuff! heheh
blessings and thanks,
Carla
"Spandex Rutabaga" <SpRu@agabatur.xednaps> wrote in message
news:44CBA35E.14A833E7@agabatur.xednaps...
> HISsparrow wrote:
>
the[color=darkred]
>
> The image you attached is yellowish or vaguely gold. When you say
> the image "was a burgundy color when I originally used it", I take
> it you mean that the original was a yellow color but that in the
> left preview of the Chrome filter the image looked burgundy. Is
> that a correct interpretation of what you wrote?
>
>
> Click on the "med. gold color" in what part of the program at which
> point in the script?
>
>
> There isn't much to this script. It does three things in order:
> 1. Hot Wax specifying a light blue foreground color.
> 2. Chrome filter.
> 3. Black and White Points using a setting that leave black and
> white unchanged but shifts neutral midtones to a gold color.
>
> When I test the script it appears there is some flakiness in PSP 9
> in relation to the Hot Wax filter. The very first time I ran the
> script, the Hot Wax command in the script appeared to ignore the
> color specified for the command and use what was in my foreground
> swatch. This was white so the door remained yellowish after Hot
> Wax except that the shadow lines/edges were darkened. The second
> time I ran the script the color stored in the script was used and
> the door came out green with the window light blue. Your burgundy
> could have resulted from whatever you had in the foreground swatch
> when the script was run.
>
> Try this. Set your foreground color to R = 70, G = 180 and B = 250.
> Then run Hot Wax. Look at your image and remember its appearance.
> Now undo the Hot Wax application and run the Midas Touch script.
> Does the left preview in the Chrome filter look like the result of
> Hot Wax that you remember?
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| HISsparrow 2006-08-02, 12:10 pm |
| Hi Ron,
Thanks for answering once again. I tried Spandex's suggestion and checked my
foreground color and DUH!!!!, I had it set to black and originally when I
was working the script I had it set to a pretty mauvey pink color! Geez,
it's always something so small or seemingly insignificant that can trip you
up! Anyway, script is working magnificently, thanks for writing it! heheh I
LOVE the gold effect! I guess I'm just a "material" girl at heart after all!
heheh
blessings,
Carla
"RonV" <RonVick@Nospam.com> wrote in message
news:5lanc2du0531iob4p7idqc4sadoh8or9dr@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:05:18 -0500, Spandex Rutabaga
> <SpRu@agabatur.xednaps> wrote:
>
>
>
> I'd forgotten that little 'Gotcha'. When 9 came out, some of the
> tools had to be 'Primed' in order to work correctly. I recall firing
> up the program, doing some ops that failed, then when I tried again,
> they worked.
>
> Also, now that I think about it, I believe some versions used the
> swatches for the Hot Wax, and if the hue was very dark, the hot Wax
> effect would make the entire active area a dark hue. Worth changing.
>
> RonV
>
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| Spandex Rutabaga 2006-08-02, 12:10 pm |
| HISsparrow wrote:
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> Bless yer pea-pickin lil heart Spandex!!!!!! You were correct in that I
> hadn't noticed that my foreground color DUH!!!!!! was set to black.
There really isn't a "DUH" in it. The foreground color which
should be used by Hot Wax is stored right in the script. The
reason for the problem is that PSP 9 is broken and doesn't use
the stored color, at least the first time the script is run.
You shouldn't have to set colors manually - that's the whole
point of a script.
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| HISsparrow 2006-08-02, 12:10 pm |
| ah haaah! Ok, so now I don't feel so stupid. although my learning curve can
be pretty low at times. I'm an ole stick in the mud. I used 5 for a LONG
while until someone convinced me to get 7, I have used that since. My son in
law got 9 and didn't want it, so I bought it from him at a good price heheh,
but getting to "know" how a program works, even though I had a similar one
before, is NOT my forte. Once again, thanks for the heads up!
blessings,
Carla
"Spandex Rutabaga" <SpRu@agabatur.xednaps> wrote in message
news:44CBE08E.934A4B63@agabatur.xednaps...
> HISsparrow wrote:
>
> There really isn't a "DUH" in it. The foreground color which
> should be used by Hot Wax is stored right in the script. The
> reason for the problem is that PSP 9 is broken and doesn't use
> the stored color, at least the first time the script is run.
> You shouldn't have to set colors manually - that's the whole
> point of a script.
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| RonV <RonVick@Nospam.com> wrote in
news:5lanc2du0531iob4p7idqc4sadoh8or9dr@4ax.com:
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:05:18 -0500, Spandex Rutabaga
> <SpRu@agabatur.xednaps> wrote:
>
>
PSP 9[color=darkred]
the[color=darkred]
the[color=darkred]
foreground[color=darkred]
second[color=darkred]
and[color=darkred]
burgundy[color=darkred]
swatch[color=darkred]
250.[color=darkred]
appearance.[color=darkred]
script.[color=darkred]
of[color=darkred]
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> I'd forgotten that little 'Gotcha'. When 9 came out, some of
the
> tools had to be 'Primed' in order to work correctly. I recall
firing
> up the program, doing some ops that failed, then when I tried
again,
> they worked.
>
> Also, now that I think about it, I believe some versions used
the
> swatches for the Hot Wax, and if the hue was very dark, the hot
Wax
> effect would make the entire active area a dark hue. Worth
changing.
>
> RonV
>
Ron, I thought that one workaround might be to run the Hot Wax
part interactively and have a preset with the color you set in
the script. But the hot wax part seems not to be editable. That
is, I can open it in my editor and change the execution mode to
Interactive, but it doesn't open the dialogue so isn't actually
interactive. Do you know any way to make it interactive? Or
have you any idea how to make PSP9 obey the color command in your
script?
Regards,
JoeB
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| Spandex Rutabaga 2006-08-02, 12:10 pm |
| JoeB wrote:
> Ron, I thought that one workaround might be to run the Hot Wax
> part interactively
You can't make it interactive and a moment's thought will tell
you why. The Hot Wax command (like e.g. Sharpen or Blur More
but unlike e.g. Gaussian Blur) has no dialog and so you can't
interact with it.
and have a preset with the color you set in
> the script. But the hot wax part seems not to be editable. That
> is, I can open it in my editor and change the execution mode to
> Interactive, but it doesn't open the dialogue so isn't actually
> interactive. Do you know any way to make it interactive? Or
> have you any idea how to make PSP9 obey the color command in your
> script?
>
> Regards,
>
> JoeB
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| Spandex Rutabaga <SpRu@agabatur.xednaps> wrote in
news:44CC3CCD.B2C35FFB@agabatur.xednaps:
> JoeB wrote:
>
>
> You can't make it interactive and a moment's thought will tell
> you why. The Hot Wax command (like e.g. Sharpen or Blur More
> but unlike e.g. Gaussian Blur) has no dialog and so you can't
> interact with it.
>
Silly me! I never even thought of how it actually worked (I use it
rarely) and just made a bad assumption that it had some user
parameters. Should have looked first.
Regards,
JoeB
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