PainShop Pro Scripting - Looking for Vignette script/plug-in

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Looking for Vignette script/plug-in

Jan Shim

2007-05-12, 10:17 pm

Hi,

I'm looking for a scipt or a plug-in that can produce soft customizable
Round or Rectangular vignette effects. ACDsee Pro's vignette allows
Horizaontal, Vertical, Clear Zone and Transition Zone, Color customization
.... if one is available in PSP, I'd be happy for just black, round but soft
as to not complicate matters. Thanks.

Jan
www.janshim.com

Fred Hiltz

2007-05-12, 10:17 pm

Jan Shim wrote:
> I'm looking for a scipt or a plug-in that can produce soft
> customizable Round or Rectangular vignette effects. ACDsee
> Pro's vignette allows Horizaontal, Vertical, Clear Zone and
> Transition Zone, Color customization ... if one is available
> in PSP, I'd be happy for just black, round but soft as to not
> complicate matters. Thanks.

I'd be surprised to see a plug-in author devote the effort to
duplicate what is so easy with PSP's built-in features, but someone
might have done one for fun.

Search http://www.psplinks.com for vignette to get some ideas about
how to do it yourself. Record a script when you get one you want to
repeat.
--
Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com

JoeB

2007-05-12, 10:17 pm

Spandex Rutabaga

2007-05-13, 3:16 am

Jan Shim wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a scipt or a plug-in that can produce soft customizable
> Round or Rectangular vignette effects. ACDsee Pro's vignette allows
> Horizaontal, Vertical, Clear Zone and Transition Zone, Color customization
> ... if one is available in PSP, I'd be happy for just black, round but soft
> as to not complicate matters. Thanks.

By vignette do you mean make the edges of the image darker? If
so you don't really need a script. Just slap a new layer over
your image and fill it with black. Then create a mask on this
layer. Fill the mask layer with a Rectangular or Sunburst
gradient which is black in the center and white at the edge
setting the Center Point and, if needed the Focal Point, to
put the center of the vignette over the part of the image that
you want. The mask will make the center of the black layer
appear transparent while the edges will look dark. Control
the overall darkening of the vignette with the opacity of
the layer group containing the mask and black layer. You can
control the abruptness of the transition from light to dark
by running Levels, Histogram Adjustment or Curves on the mask
layer. For an extremely abrupt transition use Threshold.

Of course, you can fill your layer with white instead of
black to make a white surround for your image. You can also
fill with a pattern or gradient instead of color. On any
layer equivalent to the black one you can run any of the
PSP filters to further vary the effect. In addition you can
run filters on the mask to produce variations on how much
of the black (or equivalent) layer is visible where. You
can add a second mask to the black layer and fill with a
pattern, for example, so that you have an effect where
the image fades to a background away from the center yet
shows the original background as a pattern through the
original "black" layer. An example is attached.

You could record all this in a script but you are just
using a few basic steps in your image editor. It scarcely
seems worth scripting and it would take a complex script
to offer the versatility of the few manual steps I
described. Then again you could just use Image > Picture
Frame :)

Joëlle

2007-05-13, 6:18 pm

underprocessable

Jan Shim

2007-05-13, 10:17 pm

Hi,

Thanks for the taking the time to write. Yes I am (or was) looking to
produce a soft black vignette that resembles true lens vignette and at the
same time also doubles as creative effects that I've done here using ACDsee
Pro http://www.shimworld.com/gallery/Lexus2007/ I like to keep things simple
and realistic so colored (other than black) vignetting isn't really
necessary

All the years that I've been using PSP 9.x, I've never really used mask, nor
do I undertstand it's implementation entirely. On one hand I love the art of
post processing but as a professional photographer with a young family of
two kids, I want to spend less time sitting here than I have to. I've also
come to a point where I can now batch process my PP techniques. So again,
keeping things as simple as necessary. I've found plug-ins to be really
useful and every second I can save goes a long way.

Jan
www.janshim.com

"Spandex Rutabaga" <SpRu@agabatur.xednaps> wrote in message
news:4646A1B9.184CC212@agabatur.xednaps...
> By vignette do you mean make the edges of the image darker? If
> so you don't really need a script. Just slap a new layer over
> your image and fill it with black. Then create a mask on this
> layer. Fill the mask layer with a Rectangular or Sunburst
> gradient which is black in the center and white at the edge
> setting the Center Point and, if needed the Focal Point, to
> put the center of the vignette over the part of the image that
> you want. The mask will make the center of the black layer
> appear transparent while the edges will look dark. Control
> the overall darkening of the vignette with the opacity of
> the layer group containing the mask and black layer. You can
> control the abruptness of the transition from light to dark
> by running Levels, Histogram Adjustment or Curves on the mask
> layer. For an extremely abrupt transition use Threshold.
>
> Of course, you can fill your layer with white instead of
> black to make a white surround for your image. You can also
> fill with a pattern or gradient instead of color. On any
> layer equivalent to the black one you can run any of the
> PSP filters to further vary the effect. In addition you can
> run filters on the mask to produce variations on how much
> of the black (or equivalent) layer is visible where. You
> can add a second mask to the black layer and fill with a
> pattern, for example, so that you have an effect where
> the image fades to a background away from the center yet
> shows the original background as a pattern through the
> original "black" layer. An example is attached.
>
> You could record all this in a script but you are just
> using a few basic steps in your image editor. It scarcely
> seems worth scripting and it would take a complex script
> to offer the versatility of the few manual steps I
> described. Then again you could just use Image > Picture
> Frame :)

Jan Shim

2007-05-13, 10:17 pm

Thanks JoeB,

I installed this script and also the Xero Soft Vignette plug-in, and decided
to keep the latter for its features and elliptical vignettes. I'm terrible
with scripts.

Jan
www.janshim.com

"JoeB" <mymail@myserver.com> wrote in message
news:Xns992EBE8938343JoeB@216.191.232.194...
> Angela Cable wrote a simple Vignette script that will provide a
> rectangular vignette around an image with a white background. As it
> saves all of the layers you can floodfill the bottom layer with black or
> any other color, or even a texture, if you prefer the image to fade into
> another color or into a texture.
>
> If you run it in interactive mode you can change the amount by which the
> original selection (which selects the whole image) is contracted, then
> the amount of feather which, along with being able to change the
> background into which the image fades, does offer some customization of
> the result.
>
> I have attached the script (renamed Vignette_2004 because the original
> Vignette script from 2003 didn't take into consideration whether or not
> the image had already been promoted from a background to a raster layer.
>
> Try it out, and if that's what you're looking for than a similar script
> could be written or even recorded to work with oval/round images.
>
> Regards,
>
> JoeB

Spandex Rutabaga

2007-05-14, 6:20 am

Jan Shim wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the taking the time to write. Yes I am (or was) looking to
> produce a soft black vignette that resembles true lens vignette and at the
> same time also doubles as creative effects that I've done here using ACDsee
> Pro http://www.shimworld.com/gallery/Lexus2007/ I like to keep things simple
> and realistic so colored (other than black) vignetting isn't really
> necessary

It would have been helpful to have known that at the outset.

> All the years that I've been using PSP 9.x, I've never really used mask, nor
> do I undertstand it's implementation entirely. On one hand I love the art of
> post processing but as a professional photographer with a young family of
> two kids, I want to spend less time sitting here than I have to. I've also
> come to a point where I can now batch process my PP techniques. So again,
> keeping things as simple as necessary. I've found plug-ins to be really
> useful and every second I can save goes a long way.

The attached is a simple script that makes a black vignette.
Unzip it to your Scripts-Restricted folder. The script uses a
mask but you don't need to have any idea what it does. The
whole thing is pretty trivial and you can look at the names
and thumbnails in the Layer Palette to see how the image is
constructed. If you toggle the execution mode to Interactive
a dialog will come up which allows you to control the size of
the central light area. Small numbers make it bigger and large
numbers make it smaller. If you find yourself using choosing
the same new setting over and over again, open the script in
Notepad and in the Gamma Correction command change the 1 after
Red, Green and Blue to whatever value you use most of the time.
Save the script. Then run it Silent or Interactive as you wish.
If you want to modulate the overall strength of vignetting
simply change the opacity of the Vignette group in the Layer
Palette once you've run the script. It so simple you should
be quite productive.

Spandex Rutabaga

2007-05-14, 6:20 am

Spandex Rutabaga wrote:

> The attached is a simple script that makes a black vignette.

Here, using an image from Joelle, is an example of what the
script does.

Jan Shim

2007-05-15, 6:19 pm

Thanks for this straightforward script that produces exactly what I
expected. I notice that if I run the script twice, the vignetting becomes
more intense which also work for me, if I desire that super vignette effect.
It's a good baseline to tweak from.

"Spandex Rutabaga" <SpRu@agabatur.xednaps> wrote in message
news:464825B7.26C97A7D@agabatur.xednaps...
> Jan Shim wrote:
>
> It would have been helpful to have known that at the outset.
>
>
> The attached is a simple script that makes a black vignette.
> Unzip it to your Scripts-Restricted folder. The script uses a
> mask but you don't need to have any idea what it does. The
> whole thing is pretty trivial and you can look at the names
> and thumbnails in the Layer Palette to see how the image is
> constructed. If you toggle the execution mode to Interactive
> a dialog will come up which allows you to control the size of
> the central light area. Small numbers make it bigger and large
> numbers make it smaller. If you find yourself using choosing
> the same new setting over and over again, open the script in
> Notepad and in the Gamma Correction command change the 1 after
> Red, Green and Blue to whatever value you use most of the time.
> Save the script. Then run it Silent or Interactive as you wish.
> If you want to modulate the overall strength of vignetting
> simply change the opacity of the Vignette group in the Layer
> Palette once you've run the script. It so simple you should
> be quite productive.