By MadJik, January 10, 2007 in Plugins - Publishing ONLY!
This effect will enable you to move the selection, vertically, horizontally or both using the sliders.
While moving, the image leaves the area on a side and reappears on the other.
Please delete Panelling.dll if it exists in your effect folder.
If the image is an object with a transparent background, you could choose to stop the move at the edge, without knowing the distance before.
And once stopped to the edge, you could apply a margin distance... Try this!
I used horizontal and vertical : -500px... but checked the box "stop"
It could also come in handy for making repeatable images, like web backgrounds and textures. Boltbait wrote a CodeLab script that offset the image by 50% horizontally and vertically, but this one's configurable!
Yes, this is similar to the Seemless Helper plugin that I created... only his is better.
Well BoltBait, I'm still using your effect Seemless Helper because it is really focused on a specific task AND without parameters. So simple so fast for this task.
Effect in the submenu "Effects/Distort"
... I prefer to wait for the 3 final version .
Final 3.0 is out in 1 week. It's not that far away.
Yeah ! Really great ! Thanks a lot Rick .
Hey. Love the Plugin. I can see me using this a lot.
You know...with a little additional manipulation, this looks like it would be the same thing as the "make seamless" option in GIMP.
IIRC, from looking at the pixels that come out of that, it does some sort of contrast fade from center to edges in an elliptical (radial-type) gradient, copies *that* image, and panels the copy so that it's positioned evenly in the four corners (50% horizontal and vertical offset).
I haven't tried to code any plugins yet, but if nobody else does, I might have to take a stab at it.
...anybody have any pointers on how to do a radial gradient that's asymmetrical (different horizontal and vertical distances)?
I do not understand well what you are saying!
Exactly like that...assuming you did it with code, and not by making a circular ellipse and then resizing it.
Here's the best I can explain it. In this example, the image is 200 x 200 px.
The final image is what you'd typically get if you were using Photoshop, GIMP, etc, and did a "seamless tile" or "make seamless". There are plenty of other options beyond the radial gradient to deal with the sharp edges that sometimes show up.
I can see how this would be scriptable/pluginable, but I don't know how I'd manage it.
I keep thinking back to my copy of "Aldus PhotoStyler SE" that came with Kai's Power Tools (not sure what version) and HSC Digital Morph...This was back in about 1996...the era of encyclopedias on CD and the beginnings of multimedia PCs (IBM compatible ones, that is) being commonplace.
If I can find my CDs (and they haven't been ruined by the kids), I'm going to try to find some of those old effects and see if any still seem handy.
sorry for rambling...So, who knows about plugins and ellipses?