So a dual-core machine will perform as well as with version 1.0.7 of the plugin, while a quad-core machine will be faster, period. To compensate, loading and saving have been parallelized at a coarse granularity. RLE compression does take some additional CPU time to compute, approximately doubling the time it takes to save a file. However, the difference is very slight in most cases. Files saved out by Photoshop are still smaller, since it uses a better compression algorithm. Say goodbye to those 100 MB uncompressed PSD files your files are now small enough to email. File sizes are now competitive with Photoshop's. The biggest improvement is that RLE compression now works fully on save. Please report any bugs that you discover through the Issue Tracker on the Codeplex project page. Version 1.5.0 of the plugin has been posted to Codeplex: Īs you can see by the jump in version number, I consider this to be a big deal. The next major task will be to reduce the size of saved PSD files. Moderate-sized PSD files with only a few layers can now be loaded and saved without noticeable delay. A 7-layered 2000x3000 image is significantly larger than most images that I work with in Paint.NET. I now consider performance of the plugin to be more-or-less acceptable. Note: these numbers do not include time spent on file I/O - they measure only the time taken to convert between the PSD and Paint.NET representations of the image.
1.0.4 was the last version of the plugin before development halted in 2007. With version 1.0.4, 20 seconds for loading, and 37 seconds for saving. With version 1.0.7, 1 second for loading, and 3 seconds for saving. For example, converting a 2000x3000 test image with 7 layers on a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (64-bit Windows 7) takes: Specifically, loading is about 5x as fast, and saving is about 1.5x as fast as in the previous version.Ĭombined with the previous performance improvements, the plugin is now quite zippy. This release delivers further performance improvements over version 1.0.6. Plugin Galaxy offers four modes for adjusting the effects from the simple Novice Mode to the sophisticated Expert Mode.Version 1.0.7 of the plugin has just been posted to Codeplex: Many Plugin Galaxy effects also affect the transparency of image layers which offers further possibilities. 400 presets are already included with Plugin Galaxy. Additionally you can save filter settings as preset files and open them for later use. With the new Layers feature you can also apply multiple effects to the image without leaving the Plugin Galaxy dialog. The new Play button (known from Harrys Filters 3) generates random animations in the preview for exploring the possibilities of the 160+ main effects and the Jump button produces random filter settings. Thousands of potential effects can be created with the help of sliders, check boxes, color boxes, preview coordinates and blend modes. Additionally Plugin Galaxy includes presets for creating fire, rain, Snow, water surface, metallic text, contrast and Frame effects as well as rendering cosmic scenes.Īll Plugin Galaxy effects are accessible from a single dialog. There are also effects like feedbacks, grids or zooming.
It also includes metal, chrome, neon, pop art, glass, page curl, rainbow, sunshine, sunset and star effects and lets you enhance, colorize, add edges to your photos and even encrypt them. Plugin Galaxy provides filters for transparency manipulation, blurring, texture and pattern generation, noise creation, mirroring and warping.
It supports 8bit and 16bit RGB and grayscale images. It works under Windows and Mac OS X in dozens of graphics applications including Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop Elements, PhotoPlus, Photo-Paint, IrfanView and PhotoImpact. Plugin Galaxy 2 is a plugin for creating special effects and enhancing images with the help of more than 160 basic effects.
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