PainShop Pro Scripting - any script for choosing frame color?

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any script for choosing frame color?

Arm Bar

2007-03-29, 7:22 pm

Greetings all,

Are there any scripts available that help choose a frame or mat color,
based on the prevalent colors within an image? Being color blind, it
would be useful for me (and help avoid choosing colors that don't quite
go well together <G> ). Using PSP X. TIA.

Arm Bar

Spandex Rutabaga

2007-03-29, 7:22 pm

Arm Bar wrote:
>
> Greetings all,
>
> Are there any scripts available that help choose a frame or mat color,
> based on the prevalent colors within an image? Being color blind, it
> would be useful for me (and help avoid choosing colors that don't quite
> go well together <G> ). Using PSP X. TIA.

This isn't a script but it's a tutorial you may find useful.
http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood...orials/matting/
Someone could make a script from it I suppose.

Arm Bar

2007-03-29, 7:22 pm

Spandex Rutabaga wrote:
> Arm Bar wrote:
>
> This isn't a script but it's a tutorial you may find useful.
> http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood...orials/matting/
> Someone could make a script from it I suppose.

Thanks SR. I've seen this tutorial and tried to apply it from memory,
since I couldn'r relocate it. Instead of decreasing color depth, I
posterized. Didn't work as well. Thanks for reposting the url. I have
it bookmarked now.

Arm Bar

Joske

2007-03-29, 7:22 pm

underprocessable

marush

2007-03-29, 7:22 pm

Arm Bar wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> Are there any scripts available that help choose a frame or mat color,
> based on the prevalent colors within an image? Being color blind, it
> would be useful for me (and help avoid choosing colors that don't
> quite go well together <G> ). Using PSP X. TIA.
>

I am the one who triggered this query. I seem to remember a discussion in
this group about condensing the colours in an image to a single colour. It
was about 12 months ago as I recall. Has anyone with a better memory got
any information?
KenH

Arm Bar

2007-03-29, 7:22 pm

Joske wrote:
> Arm Bar wrote:
>
>
>
> There is a script by Joe Fromm from Jasc called PalletteFromImage.
> What it does is reduce the colors in an image to a number the user
> chooses. These colors then show up in the Materials Palette.
>
> I'm not sure in how far you are able to distinguish between colors
> that are more present or less present. But if you can see that, and
> you can see their brightness, it should be possible for you to pick
> a color from among say 12 colors generated by the script.
>
> If you use PSP X, you should find the script in your Paint Shop Pro
> X/Scripts-Trusted folder.
>
> One thing to look out for: run the script on a duplicate of the
> original photo.
>
> Joske
>
>
>
Thanks Joske. I'll give it a try. Sounds like it accomplishes a
similar task as the tutorial SR posted.

Arm Bar

Arm Bar

2007-03-29, 7:22 pm

Joske wrote:
> Arm Bar wrote:
>
>
>
> There is a script by Joe Fromm from Jasc called PalletteFromImage.
> What it does is reduce the colors in an image to a number the user
> chooses. These colors then show up in the Materials Palette.
>
> I'm not sure in how far you are able to distinguish between colors
> that are more present or less present. But if you can see that, and
> you can see their brightness, it should be possible for you to pick
> a color from among say 12 colors generated by the script.
>
> If you use PSP X, you should find the script in your Paint Shop Pro
> X/Scripts-Trusted folder.
>
> One thing to look out for: run the script on a duplicate of the
> original photo.
>
> Joske
>
>
>
I just tried it, Joske. It works similarly to the tutorial, but the
resulting colors are different from those generated by the tutorial. I
like the tutorial better. I think I can probably make a script by
recording the steps. Pretty simple, but I'll loose a tiny bit of
flexibility (degree of blur, number of resulting colors).

Arm Bar

Joske

2007-03-29, 7:22 pm

Arm Bar wrote:
> Joske wrote:

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[color=darkred]
[color=darkred]
> I just tried it, Joske. It works similarly to the tutorial, but
> the resulting colors are different from those generated by the
> tutorial. I like the tutorial better. I think I can probably
> make a script by recording the steps. Pretty simple, but I'll
> loose a tiny bit of flexibility (degree of blur, number of
> resulting colors).

You can set the steps to interactive, or run the script
interactively, if you want control over your script.

I tried Joe's script on a number of photos, and I find that even if
I only let it generate 12 colours, they are mostly very useable
ones. Of course you may not be able to see that, I don't know.

Joske
--
http://members.home.nl/j.a.c.backer/

Eliot Rogers

2007-04-22, 10:20 pm

Arm Bar wrote:
> Spandex Rutabaga wrote:
>
>
> Thanks SR. I've seen this tutorial and tried to apply it from memory,
> since I couldn'r relocate it. Instead of decreasing color depth, I
> posterized. Didn't work as well. Thanks for reposting the url. I have
> it bookmarked now.
>
> Arm Bar

Some time back I turned Kris Z's method into a PSP 9 script and have
attached it here. I don't know enough about the differences between 9 &
X to know if it'll work properly in PSP X, but here it is anyway. Hope
it helps.

Arm Bar

2007-04-27, 6:19 pm

Eliot Rogers wrote:
> Arm Bar wrote:
>
> Some time back I turned Kris Z's method into a PSP 9 script and have
> attached it here. I don't know enough about the differences between 9 &
> X to know if it'll work properly in PSP X, but here it is anyway. Hope
> it helps.
>
>

Thanks I'll give it a try.

Arm Bar