I have uploaded a preview gallery for the forthcoming "Imagedata Toolkit
3" at
<http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia/PreviewToolkit3.htm>
An interim version of toolkit 3 will be released during the next week.
What's new in interim version 3?
While the focus of the "imagedata toolkit 2" was on "hues", toolkit 3
concentrates both on median-despeckle filters and the distortion and
deformation of images to achieve various kinds of "painting" effects.
Both filter categories have to be used in conjunction to produce such
effects.
There are 12 such median-despeckle filters, the most powerful of them is
"despeckle extreme", which does not only remove noise, but also minor
details, thus achieving larger color areas in an image.
I have discarded the "Kuwahara" filter of "Imagedata Toolkit 2". While
it was a fine exercise to port this known filter to Revolution, it was
really the slowest of my adapted scripted filters and much less powerful
than my "despeckle extreme" filter, which is also 3 times faster.
The distortion/deformation filters comprise:
- various kinds of multi-pixel noise
- solid and blended rects of different sizes
- the dissolution of images by shapes of various sizes (ovals,
rectangles, regular polynoms - triangles, rectangles, pentagons -, and
the application of this dissolution either at random or in a systematic
fashion - dissolving the image with vertical columns of shapes.
Other improvements of interim version 3:
- the slight color shift when using the "jitter" filter has been fixed
(there was a one-char typo)
- a "wet paint" filter has been added to "jitter and noise"
- the scripted "blur" filters (as opposed to matrix filters) now
comprise "progressive blurs" with pixel distances vertically and
horizontally from 2 to 8 and for "extreme blurs" with pixel distances
from 10 to 60. These blur filters with their precise and powerful
effects are genuinely new and nowhere else to be found.
- a "venetian mirror" option has been added under "mirrors": reflections
of any size can be added inside the images horizontally and/or
vertically, which also provides the possibility to produce
kaleidoskop-like pictures.
- special "max" and "min" effects have been added as a variation of the
despeckle-median filters (using the median algorithms, but substituting
the median function by minimum and maximum), which then need another -
despeckle or lithography - filter to achieve worth-while effects.
- images can be exported both as JPEG and PNG.--
The final "Imagedata Toolkit 3", which probably will be released in a
month, will also have the following additional features:
- adding horizontal, vertical, and diagonal "gradient noise"
- replacing colors: selecting a color-to-be-replaced by clicking on the
image and choosing a replace-color by either also clicking on the image
or a color wheel. This color replacement can be implemented for a
specific color or a selected color range with the additional option to
choose a computed gray-average as the basis for replacement
- simplifying colors: similar procedure as above: the selected color
will replace a defined color range
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- adding transparency to selected areas of an image, implemented also in
a similar fashion as with replacing and simplifying colors (see above).
As the one of the main features of the Imagedata Toolkit are two
superimposed images, the underlying image will appear in the transparent
areas, thus producing a new image that can then be saved or exported as
a new non-transparent image.-
The current "Imagedata Toolkit 2" is still available - for those
interested to experiment with structures and colors in images and photos
in the meantime until Imagedata Toolkit 3 will be released - at
<http://www.sanke.org/Software/ImagedataToolkit.zip>
Regards,
Wilhelm Sanke
<http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia>
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