New Addon "PhotoMasque" for 1.92

[xnview]

A new addon made by the great author of the graphic program Photofiltre (Antonio Da Cruz) is available here, so please give us your feedback!

[helmut]

A new plugin made by the great author of Photofiltre (Antonio Da Cruz) is available here, so please give us your feedback!

This new AddOn "PhotoMasque" provides really good effects. Some brief info:

What PhotoMasque does:
PhotoMasque overlays the currently opened image with a mask - this way you can create special borders and other effects. Various masks are provided e.g. snowflake, fog, keyhole, and some more.

Screenshot: Applying a mask with PhotoMasque:



Installation
"PhotoMasque" is an AddOn for XnView. To install it, you extract the downloaded ZIP archive in the folder "AddOn". Then you (re)start XnView.

If installed properly, XnView will list PhotoMasque as AddOn in the PlugIn info dialog, which you can open via menu "Info > PlugIns Information", in the drop down list select "AddOns".

Using PhotoMasque
For starting PhotMasque, you ...
1. open an image in view mode.
2. select menu item "Filter > PhotoMasque (1.0)".
3. Open a mask by clicking on the folder icon right to the edittext "Mask".
4. In dialog "Open" select one of the masks provided. (you can use own mask files, also).
5. Confirm "Open" dialog with "Open".
6. Activate checkbox "Preview" for seeing a preview of your mask and settings.
7. Changes settings (Opacity, Color, ...) as desired.
8. Confirm with "OK".

[Drahken]

Works pretty well. (Although it'd be really good if xnview supported saving images with alpha transparency.)
One minor bug though, the preview option doesn't remain checked after you apply the filter, you have to check it again the next time you go to use it.

[Clo]

Drahken

Hello !

…(Although it'd be really good if xnview supported saving images with alpha transparency.)…

• Indeed, I guess that could improve the final result…

…One minor bug though, the preview option doesn't remain checked after you apply the filter…

• Right, I confirm, that's so irritating…

• Also, I dislike the colour-palette and its auto-close feature.
- For once, I much prefer the old good Win one (with several saved custom colours, like we have now in XnView).

• To process relatively small images, we miss other masks¦patterns having smaller and denser items.
- For instance, with snowflakes on a pic W=251 - H=301 pixels, the items are too big and spread,
it doesn't result in a very realistic effect.
- I drew a denser one (from the smallest items), it's better but not wonderful yet…

• But it's a good start, and definitely a very useful add-on which improves XnView a lot !

KR
Claude
Clo

[Clo]

helmut

• Hi !

…If installed properly, XnView will list PhotoMasque as AddOn in the PlugIn info dialog, which you can open via menu "Info > PlugIns Information", in the drop down list select "AddOns".

• You are not bound to do so. When the files are in the <AddOn> sub-folder,
XnView creates a “dynamic” entry in the View Mode >> Filter Menu.
¤ Aside : BTW, this “dynamic entries” feature could be¦is an issue to solve before we switch to menus as text…

G.
Claude
Clo

[Drahken]

No transparency:
http://allspark.net/cypherswipe/frame-1.jpg
Single color transparency (what xnview can do):
http://allspark.net/cypherswipe/frame-2.png
Alpha transparent (note, you need a real browser such as opera or fifrefox to view this one properly online, or at least IE v7. IE v6 and earlier lack alpha transparency support):
http://allspark.net/cypherswipe/frame-3.png

[marsh]

• Also, I dislike the colour-palette and its auto-close feature.
- For once, I much prefer the old good Win one (with several saved custom colours, like we have now in XnView).

Both dialogs are there. Select colour bar instead of down-arrow for old, larger style. A bit unexpected.

[helmut]

• Also, I dislike the colour-palette and its auto-close feature.
- For once, I much prefer the old good Win one (with several saved custom colours, like we have now in XnView).

Both dialogs are there. Select colour bar instead of down-arrow for old, larger style. A bit unexpected.

Wow, well spotted, marsh!

[Peter2]

Why is that addon not on the addon-download page?
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pierre.g/xn ... ddons.html

Peter

[xnview]

Why is that addon not on the addon-download page?
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pierre.g/xn ... ddons.html

It's fixed

[Peter2]

Why is that addon not on the addon-download page?
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pierre.g/xn ... ddons.html

Peter

Gone again? I can not find it - neither in English nor in German.

Peter

[XnTriq]

@Pierre: The link is missing on the official dowload page.

• http://www.xnview.com/download/addons/PhotoMasque.zip

Masks for the PhotoMasque module

Unzip the files in the directory “Masks” of PhotoFiltre
(You can create sub-directories in the main “Masks” directory)

• 19 additional masks
  Frames and camera / April 2003 / 496 Kb
• 76 masks donated by Monique de Saint-Hubert
  Frames and decorations / August 2003 / 1.52 Mb
• 7 masks donated by Fred
  Trees and fir trees / December 2003 / 300 Kb
• 79 masks donated by Michel Fontaine
  Geometrical shapes / February 2004 / 2.5 Mb
• 11 masks donated by Jeroen de Bruijn
  Misc / February 2004 / 100 Kb
• 3 masks donated by Philippe Berger
  Polaroid effects / April 2004 / 91 Kb
• 17 masks donated by Catherine Landrevie
  Frames and decorations / May 2004 / 318 Kb
• 13 masks donated by Dany Chacornac
  Twining plants and geometrical shapes / May 2004 / 256 Kb

You can find and post more masks in the forum

• About.com
  • Free Grayscale Masks for Photo Edge Effects
• deviantART
  • Application Resources » “masks”
• Clicpartout
  • Masques Paint Shop Pro, Photofiltre, Photoimpact, Photoshop