Paint Shop Pro Talk

Re: Paint Shop Pro & PhotoFiltre Talk

Back again with a red-eye / picture viewer comment.

First the bad news. I broke ACDSee, thereby maintaining my "perfect" record of giving the thumbs down to every single picture viewer I have ever tried.

But there is hope! Free application XnView has been building a name for itself. I just installed it, and noticed it does have a built in utility for fixing red-eye. I have to admit, I have never used a red-eye fixer because its funner to new eyes, but that's just me.

I think everyone should try XnView, and then we can compare notes!


Marja said:

"Still working on my Inspiring Poster theme.....
At least, I hope you find them so!"

I like reading them, but its all in the timing as to whether I get inspired. A lot of conditions have to be met simultaneously in order for me to connect with an insight. It happens, though, and I wish I would mark those days on the calander.


-HandsOff!

 

Re: Paint Shop Pro & PhotoFiltre Talk

Well well...

http://img455.imageshack.us/img455/9452/elizabethhurley4pz.jpg

Looky who's got 'Lacquer'!

http://img455.imageshack.us/img455/9871/elizabethhurley31wx.jpg

 

Re: Paint Shop Pro & PhotoFiltre Talk

Woo...

http://img455.imageshack.us/img455/2250/elizabethhurley24aa.jpg

Hoo!

http://img455.imageshack.us/img455/776/elizabethhurley18ae.jpg

 

Re: Paint Shop Pro & PhotoFiltre Talk

Hi, sorry I' ve been away lately but I was a bit ill over the holidays
and couldn't be at the computer. Don't you hate when you feel ill
when everyone is celebrating?

Hey, Bigbuck that is amazing the effect you produced with that
filter and by looking at the picture, I was thinking that it would be
great if you could select the eyes with the Freehand Selection and
then invert your selection in order to apply the lacquer filter outside
the eyes only..(layer 1) and after you applied that effect you can
duplicate that layer and re-invert the selection so that the eyes
will be selected again... and you apply the lacquer filter
on them...(layer 2) and reduce the opacity of that second layer
until you're satisfied with the result.

 

Re: Paint Shop Pro & PhotoFiltre Talk

(Cough! Splutter! Pound on chest....)

HAD A GREAT NEW YEAR, DID YA, BUCK?

Or was this a day or two after?
It's really NO fair how you Ozzie's can celebrate over there AND over here AND ...well, all over the place.........I mean - REALLY!

I agree with Uguel, do all that and get back to us!

All kiddin' aside, GREAT FX, Dude!

Not at my puter, no power, no phone in them thar hills, bad storms, from the 30th to yesterday.....was like a really looooong New Year's countdown!
Had to come play flatlander for a day!

Hands,
Thanks for clarifying the Inspiration Point for me.......will TRY to schedule it ...well, what day did you say you felt like being inspired?
Thought so, me too!

Likin' all these new weird smilies, makes me feel I ain't the only one confused half the time here..........

Don't tell BBoss I stopped by, cuz the electicity went out JUST as I was gonna sing her "Happy Birthday" over the phone, I AM POSITIVE that was just a coincidence tho ........

Cheers All!
Marja

 

Re: Paint Shop Pro & PhotoFiltre Talk

Hey good idea Uguel....the eyes did look pretty awful. Anyway didn't need the layers, did it in DIP, selected the eyes, inverted, applied lacquer, went back and inverted back, applied lacquer again to the eyes.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b230/bigbuckster/elizabeth_hurley1.jpg

 

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I had XnView in the past, a fairly good application
but I don't have it anymore especially since I installed more graphic
programmes that do correct the red eyes... I did not need it anymore.

 

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Wow! that's better! and if you add a li'l white paint over the
lines in the eyes that will make her even more gorgeous.

 

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Hey there Big Buck!

I am currently working on a newer version of "Metal Girl". I will keep you posted. Other than that, I like your new model! I may have to borrow her for a shoot!


-HandsOff

 

Re: Paint Shop Pro & PhotoFiltre Talk

Big Buck-

I made an initial effort at lacquering Elisabeth, but got very poor results. I attribute this to the fact that the "edges" in the photo were not within normal ranges. By edges, I mean what appear to the eye as edges, like the edge of hairline, the face, eyes...you know...edges. I try to "fix" photo's sometimes, so I tried to make an assessment of the areas where there were problems. In the picture, the one on the right is not an attempt at correction, it is, rather, an attempt to find some of the edges.

I'm not sure if fixing it will help, but my verdict is that the saturation is at least double what it should be, the contrast is almost as much too high, and that the brightness is too low, and that some areas, like around the eyes look painted black, to accent the lighter color of the eyes.

The main reason I mention this is that I find Lacquer so interesting. Hopefully, you will too!


- HandsOff

 

Re: Paint Shop Pro & PhotoFiltre Talk

Try this one Mac

 

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Hi Everyone!
Hope you all had a very good start to
your New Year!

Uguel, or anyone, I know you showed some frames that made the subject look 3-D,
what I am looking for is a way I can make the whole pic look 3-D.....

Will I have to get some kinda of prog to do that?
I like that Terragenand other progs like it,
but am lookin' for something that I can use pretty much right away..
(Meaning I can understand and use it!)

Any Ideas?

Like your lacquer effects, Buck and Hands!

Thanks in Advance!

Marja​

 

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....not a very good start for me but I will survive......

yes, I know a program to make 3D design very easily.
It is very basic though. There aren't lots of
shapes in it but if you get it for making 3D text
that might do for a start. I did not try it much
(not enough time) but I it tried long enough to get
a good idea of the program. It's called
Serif 3D Plus 2.

To download it you must register. You can give them
a google email account and if you don't want to receive
lots of publicity by email, do not subscribe to any list....

you might get information at this webpage

Product info

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/3dPlus/default.asp

To register and download:

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/Software/3DPlus/download1.asp

I tried also Daz but I did not like it very much
maybe because the free version is very limited
but if you pay to get more models, that would make
the software more interesting to work with.

Daz allows you to create and dress human shapes
and it is also free.

http://www.daz3d.com/

...a very quick one made with Serif 3d....

 

Re: Paint Shop Pro & PhotoFiltre Talk

Nice lacquered models guys!

 

Re: Paint Shop Pro & PhotoFiltre Talk

....more Serif 3D examples.

Remember that you can use dingbat fonts
to create new shapes also !

 

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Hello there. First thank goodness I found this thread. I have worked my way through it and found some great tutorials and tips for which many thanks!!!

Now I wonder if anyone can help me. I use PSP (was 8 until last week when I got a good deal on 9 presumably as X is now bedding in) together with Photophiltre and Neat Image as my day to day graphics apps.

With my latest scanner I received a copy of Arcsoft Photo Sudio 5.5 which I do not really expect to use much except I quite like the 3D Text Factory plugin that shipped with it. It does quick bevelled text etc and for when I don’t want to play about it might be useful. The trouble is with all the files copied into the plugin file it just won’t work. The error message says not all files may have been installed properly. Has anyone tried this one and if so with any degree of success please?

Many thanks,

Sally

 

Re: Paint Shop Pro & PhotoFiltre Talk

Hey you're welcome Harnser! It is always nice
to hear such encouraging comments. We all try to help the
best we could here although we still have lots to learn
about those graphic programs.

You mean that evertime you want to apply a plugin or filter
to your image you get an error? ...Is that so?

Hmm, I did not try that program but see if this will help...

...are the files you installed in your plugin folder,
.8bf files or such? If so, you might check if you have the
proper .DLLS installed in WINDOWS\system. Like the MSVRT10.DLL,
MSVCRT.DLL and Plugin.DLL. They will be found in C:\ Windows\ System.

Those DLLS are important, they allow your plugins or filters to work properly.

 

Re: Paint Shop Pro & PhotoFiltre Talk

Thanks muchly for that speedy response!

That's interesting I installed MSVRT10.DLL and Plugin.DLL. only yesterday because I had forgotten to put them back when I rebuilt my machine but not MSVCRT.DLL I will go and try that one. Otherwise the other .8bf files etc look ok. I will go and have a try with the missing one and let you know how I get on

Cheers,

Sally

 

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Hey, you're welcome Sally! I hope everything will work ok after installing
the MSVCRT.DLL. Most of my plugins worked well except for Fun House filters
which gave me error messages everytime I tried to apply it. So I went
to check the Windows folder and saw that I had the MSVRT10. DLL but not
the plugin.DLL nor MSVCRT.DLL. I installed them, rebooted my
computer, opened PSP and tried to apply the Fun House plugin again
to my picture and it worked well. But keep in mind that some plugins
work only on a selection, others with layers and, most of them,
will work well on a simple .jpg or JPEG picture.

 

Re: Paint Shop Pro & PhotoFiltre Talk

Hey, I just want to tell everyone that has Photofiltre,
that you will find more masks and patterns on their download page.
So all you have to do is this....

Enter the Photofiltre site, go to the left frame menu and
click on ''Downloads''...a new page will open....
scroll down till you see ''Masks for the PhotoMasque module''
...now you will see plenty of masks that you can download.
Download whichever you want and unzip them in your Photofiltre
masks folder. For my part, I downloaded all of them and then I only
chose the ones I liked best and deleted the others....

You might also download some of the *pattern files on
that page too. Again you just download them but this time
you unzip them in your pattern folder.

* A pattern can be used to fill the empty spaces
produced by the mask of for creating backgrounds only.

To apply a filter and a mask to your image.

1. Open your image in Photofiltre

2. Go to the Menu > Filter > PhotoMasque > Click in the small rectangular
window where it is written "mask". A new window will open
showing a folder with several masks in it. Browse and choose a
mask that you like, click on preview and apply it if it pleases
you or choose another one. When you're satisfied with the mask that you chose, click on "Mode" in the same window. Now choose how you
will fill your mask, it can be with a colour, transparency, grayscale, a
gaussian blur or a pattern. I chose "Pattern"and then ''Fill Pattern''.
So I just browse the pattern folder, chose a pattern I like and then I
previewed and applied the pattern along with the mask choosen previously.
See screenshot below.......

Hope this help.


Edit: you can add a frame after applying a mask if you want.

 

Re: Paint Shop Pro & PhotoFiltre Talk

for those who are new to Photofiltre
...a few examples of what you can do with masks and patterns.

 

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...made with Photofiltre also.

 

Re: Paint Shop Pro & PhotoFiltre Talk

I have a slight problem trying to install psp 7.04 patch. The install gets like 98% done and then says...
The file C:\winnt\system32\msvcp60.dll is in use and cannot be installed. Abort, retry, or ignore are the only options then at this point. Abort the install fails, retry completely fails, and if I hit ignore it skips the file and the install finishes. Any ideas?

 

Re: Paint Shop Pro & PhotoFiltre Talk

There's a good topic here on that matter,here:

http://www.wackyb.com/zzub/index.php?showtopic=3665

One poster has the same problem as you're having
and was able to install it by taking another user's proper
advise. And if you look at replies number 12 to 15 on that page.
It seems that you can just ignore that message and install it
without problem. For that 60 .dll came with your first PSP 7
version and the patch has it too so it will just overwrite it.

The "60" of the DLL file-name tags it as the version number.
Since it only wanted to replace the same version DLL,
there's no harm done with ignoring it.

For my part, I had PSP 7.02 and since it was working
fine I never updated after.