I’ve decided it would be worthwhile to develop a Photoshop plugin for Tint. While adding nicer GUI features and tools such as a desaturation brush to the standalone program would be useful, it does feel like reinventing the wheel, and an enormous wheel at that. Obviously I could quickly find myself adding a bunch of standard features already available in the most simple of image editors, let alone top of the line products like Photoshop!
The plugin should facilitate a wealth of options above and beyond the simple monochrome and colour mixing currently available. Hue changes, progressive desaturation, object recognition and image segmentation will all become a possibility. Combined with this will hopefully be some improvements to the clustering algorithm that underlies Tint, in particular focusing on improved spatial clustering.
In theory at least, the plugin should also be compatible with Paint Shop Pro and the Gimp under Windows. A specialised Gimp plugin for Unix machines is a future possibility. The idea will be to design the plugin in such a way that a standalone Tint program is still available, albeit without the further possibilities that Photoshop and other editors can provide. This will ensure that users without these commercial packages are not excluded.
I’d like to thank everyone for their comments and suggestions regarding Tint so far, and for the small number of donations that have been received to help with the hosting of the site. It truly is fantastic to have had such a response, and it has motivated me to spend some more time in developing the idea. A few rough calculations across the many software download sites where Tint is now available gives well over 50 000 downloads in the relatively short time it’s been available.
Future donations will be put towards the purchase of Photoshop and Visual Studio (required by the Photoshop SDK for developing plugins), as well as hardware upgrades to support these. Any donations, however large or small, are much appreciated to help with these substantial costs. To donate, click the “Make a donation” button on the Tint page, or visit the SourceForge page and click the “Donate” link there.
Early days yet, but I’ll keep everyone posted on how this development progresses!
14 responses to “A Photoshop plugin for Tint”
on October 24th, 2007 at 7:48
First of all thank you for your great software! What about using Eclipse and MinGW for plugin development?
on December 22nd, 2007 at 20:17
I want to test it
on January 8th, 2008 at 16:11
commend
on January 8th, 2008 at 16:14
commendable
on January 8th, 2008 at 16:21
Een geweldig mooi resultaat.
on April 12th, 2008 at 9:10
I want to test it also !!!
on September 15th, 2008 at 10:37
hii…nice to meet this page… i can learn more here, i have a simple design for you
on November 2nd, 2008 at 4:09
Thank you for your website
I made with photoshop backgrounds for myspace and youtube and ect..
my backgrounds:http://tinyurl.com/6rbxmr
take care and thank you again!
on December 17th, 2008 at 23:15
Hi
I am asking why you must to buy an expensive Photoshop license to make a plugin that you will give for free (where free is not as price, but as freedom).
In this way you pay a license, force your user to buy a license, and you will be forced in a closed source software. According me it would be nicer that you start to write your plugin for Gimp instead, that need a lot plugins like your.
Ok, photoshop is more used by people, photoshop is nicer, but in the end it is, and will reamain a very closed software.
In every case, in photoshop or in gimp, your plugin will be a very nice program.
on December 18th, 2008 at 14:10
Hi Michele,
Thanks for your comment. Tint will continue to be available as free, open source software as it is now. Yes, there will be a few “closed source” issues with regard to the Photoshop plugin component of it, but these will apply to the Photoshop plugin only, not to the rest of the software. You won’t need Photoshop to use Tint.
I would like to develop a plugin for the Gimp also at some point (I’m a Linux user myself), although Photoshop will come first.
Should say that all this is back on the agenda at the moment. Also there are some major performance improvements and a nice new interface. I’ll get some more information out on these new developments soon!
on March 31st, 2009 at 15:20
I need for experimental experiency in foto
on March 31st, 2009 at 15:23
i need this sofware for plus experiency in photo.
on March 31st, 2009 at 15:23
thank you a lot
on April 30th, 2009 at 0:45
Gracias por key