Image Repainter

Image Repainter is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in for Windows designed by ImageSkill Software. Image Repainter allows an user to express pleasing colors from desirable prototype image to images to be corrected. It is very useful for recoloring of a series of image shots, especially where slightly different lighting and camera settings produced different color appearance in each photo. Image Repainter is indispensable for some complex cases of color correction.


This help contains the following sections:




Recent changes

  • v 1.0 - New release.
  • v 1.1 - 09/06/2006
    • Interface was improved. Now you can select template image and change current folder by one control.
    • Just now, plug-in can process selection correctly. Only selected area will be transformed.

 

Install and uninstall procedures

Run setup file. Installer try to find suitable graphic hosts. Choose one of them from list. If you want to install plug-in in other folder, select item "Other path" and set path. In this case you must set "Plug-ins path" of your graphic host to setup folder.

In order to uninstall plug-in run uninstall.exe or use Add and Remove Programs item in the Control Panel.



Using Image Repainter

This plug-ins works under RGB data with 8bits/channel.

  1. Open an image in your graphic editor.
  2. Call the Image Repainter plug-in. (For Adobe Photoshop "Filter->Image Skill->Image Repainter").
  3. Choose a current folder and select desirable template image that is displayed in the small preview window.
  4. Plug-in begins to process the original image automatically. After a time the resulting image appears in the main window.
  5. If necessary, adjust the Brightness or (and) Color intensity controls in order to receive more pleasant effect.
  6. If you want change brightness or color only, choose Only brightness or Only color mode correspondingly instead Normal Mode.
  7. Press OK button.


Tool, Sliders and Buttons Descriptions

Zoom tool

Use this tool for zooming. Click to zoom in. Right-click to zoom out.

Pan tool

Click and drag to pan images larger than the windows.

Brightness

Use this slider to achieve more pleasant brightness appearance.

Color intensity

Use this slider to achieve more pleasant color appearance.

Fade

Use it for blending the result with the original image.

Mode

Normal mode (default): keeps both brightness and color matching

Only brightness: keeps brightness matching only

Only color: keeps color matching only

Display

Use Display menu options to switch between previews of the original and result images.



Tutorials



Repaint selected area

Use this tutorial to learn how to repaint an area in your image. We want to repaint woman's hair in blue color.

  1. Select hair using siutable tool. We used Jasc PaintShopPro 9 "Magic Wand" tool.



  2. Run Image Repainter plug-in: "Filter->Imageskill->Image Reapinter".
  3. Select template image with siutable colors.



  4. Press Ok and pass result image to host program.



Tips and Tricks

The following tips will help you get the best results when using Image Repainter.

  • Do not use source and template images having very narrow color histograms.
  • If you want to get specific artistic color effects on your photos use paintings as templates .
  • Getting attractive result save suitable template in your Favourite Templates Gallery.


Art Gallery

You can use this plug-in for many purposes. You can change brightness, color or both using template sample.

Original image

Template image



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