Thanks so much for the information and willingness to share, Kevin. I’ve just briefly looked at the methods. I’m wanting to replace the use of a couple of Einhugur PictureEffects plugin methods because they are running into memory issues with very large raster images. I’m hoping that the MBS plug-in will not have that problem.
I need to combine three images, all the same pixel dimensions into a single Xojo picture object. Currently, two of the images get put through Einhugur’s “MapEffect” so as to make their values go from 255 to 128 instead of 255 to 0. (i.e., as though using a 50% gray mask). These two images then get combined (multiplied) on top of the third image (using Einhugur’s “BlendEffect” with a mode of “PictureEffectsBlendMode.MULTIPLY"). Can you suggest the best way to accomplish that with the MBS LargePicture plug-in? Thanks again for your help... -- Peter Truskier Premedia Systems, Inc. Berkeley, CA USA > On Apr 22, 2015, at 3:11 PM, Kevin Gale <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Peter > > The functions were added specifically for our application. It is similar to a > DTP app but designed for the photo gift market (photobooks, calendars, mugs > etc...). We are taking several raster based objects (images, text, shapes) > and compositing them to generate pages that are eventually printed on a > digital press. > > We were performing certain actions such as flattening pictures with a mask > onto a coloured background and masking solid colour foregrounds via RB code > so we commissioned Christian to write faster versions. > > If you have any specific questions I might be able to answer them for you. > > > Regards > Kevin > > > >> On 22 Apr 2015, at 17:48, Peter Truskier <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> That’s too bad. >> >> Is this plug-in based on some existing and documented third-party library? >> I’m hoping to get more information on what some of the parameters (e.g., >> what does “PreMultipliedSource” mean)… >> >> -- >> Peter Truskier >> >> >>> On Apr 21, 2015, at 11:27 PM, Christian Schmitz >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Am 21.04.2015 um 21:05 schrieb Peter Truskier >>>> <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> Are there any examples of all the variations of the .Combine function? >>> >>> No. >>> >>> Sincerely >>> Christian >>> >>> -- >>> Read our blog about news on our plugins: >>> >>> http://www.mbsplugins.de/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://ml01.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://ml01.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info > _______________________________________________ > Mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info mailing list > [email protected] > https://ml01.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info -- Peter Truskier Premedia Systems, Inc. Berkeley, CA USA 1-510-495-6442 http://www.premediasystems.com _______________________________________________ Mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info mailing list [email protected] https://ml01.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info
