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Advanced Unsharp Mask

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Sharpening tool, uses blurred mask. Sharpness is modified with few sliders that work like a kind of equalizer. User can control blurring parameters (radius and treshold for selective blur mask). It provides 4 types of output: Sharpenned image, mask, split/comparision mode and mask-to-img differences.
Brightness of image can be affected by levels-like tool that works indirectly - via the mask.
See attached screenshot for more info.

Plugin is multithreaded.

Downloads (source code with instructions for linux) and few sample images http://code.google.com/p/aumask/wiki/Introduction.

Any comments and feature requests welcomed.

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Tested only in Gimp-2.6.11
http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3609

-Rod

Hi all

Lately I resumed my work on this plugin and here is new version. Primary reason was that I was not satisfied with blurring algorithm for selective mask. But I reworked also internals of the plugin and did some changes to GUI and the way how the plugin works.
Most significant changes relates to an export to new layer.
Another change is that now you have four output modes and they work in the same way in preview, on original layer or the result can be exported to new layer.
I added "postblur" option to selective mask as there used to be artifacts between areas with too different brightnesses
I added some controls for "mask-to-img differences" mode (see GUI/screenshot of plugin)
Also I added mouse-over tips on some elements of GUI

Any feedback is welcomed

Tibor

Bonjour,

http://www.aljacom.com/~gimp/aumask-0.9-32bits-64bits.zip

640 492 bytes

These binaries are tested on :

32bit ->
Gimp GIMP 2.6.11 32 bits
Gimp 2.7.4 32/64 bits
Gimp Painter 2.6.11 32 bits (Put the dll in the plugins directory with the executable)

64bit ->
Gimp 64 bits version 2.6.10 Sourceforge
Gimp 64 bits version 2.6.11
Gimp 64 bits version 2.7.5 Partha
Gimp 32/64 bits version 2.7.4 Sourceforge
Gimp rggjan 64 bits version 2.7.4 Partha

Bonjour,

http://www.aljacom.com/~gimp/aumask-0.8-32bits-64bits.zip

1 090 085 bytes.

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Dll for Gimp Painter 32 bits from : http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php

Nice. Thanks to you both! Ver. 0.8 works fine on my XP32bit.
(Btw, what about implementing the flexible preview into your saturation equalizer? :)) )

you must explain in what way it should be "flexible"...
To switch between "normal" and "splitted" modes? Or do you have any other idea?

In case of aumask, two preview modes were primary: normal and mask. And mask mode was necessary for me because I needed to check how blurring algorithm works. But is is usefull also for users, of course.

Splitted mode was only afterthough, in fact I was inspired by other plugin (gmic was it?).

With "flexible" I mean a preview that increases simultaneously with the plugin window (at present preview size is fixed). Split mode (as in Gmic) would be nice, too, but for the purpose of the saturation equalizer I think a big pic is more important. Just my 2ct.

But currently, the preview is expandable. Latest development version is 0.6.7 (available on google code) and there it works. And it has been working for few versions by now.
Of course, latest "stable" version is 0.6.3 (and it is latest version published here) and it is 6 weeks old and maybe it did not worked in this one.
Never mind, I want to release another "stable" version in few days...

Okay, currently using 0.63, so I'm looking forward for 0.67. And thanks again for your work!

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