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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: Guillermo Luijk on November 05, 2006, 01:40:43 pm

Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on November 05, 2006, 01:40:43 pm
Hi all! I did not find an introduction area in the forum, so I'll introduce myself here: I am a 34 novice photographer living in Spain, and I registered as the Luminous Landscape has been a reference for me so many times in the last months that I wanted to find out about this forum.

I would like to show you a little but I think useful program I wrote last weekend to allow any non experienced user to easily rip B&W tonings from your favourite authors, and apply them straight into your B&W pictures or calculate a standard Photoshop .acv curve file to do the processing there. I hope you find it useful and I hope to get feedback from you all. I keep this program for free and it can be downloaded from (follow Software - Tone Hacker):
http://www.guillermoluijk.com (http://www.guillermoluijk.com)

The program analyses a toned B&W image and obtains the RGB curves to be applied to a pure B&W picture to obtain the same tone.

This is the GUI:

(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/37/tonedj7.jpg)

The steps to achieve a toning are:

1. Use the '...' to load a toned image
2. Press 'Analyse' to analyse it and create the curves
3. Load with '...' the target picture. If it is coloured use now 'Desaturate' to desaturate it.
4. Press 'Tone' for toning.
DONE! it's really fast.

or

3b. You can as well use the option to export PS curves (.acv format straight readable from PS) and apply the "hacked" toning from inside PS.

The generated files will subsequently be stored on the same folder as the original ones. Saving the histogram and curve plots can be disabled (default).

This is an example of the results to tone a B&W landscape. We found this picture and we liked its tone:

(http://img286.imageshack.us/img286/3378/ex2ee8.jpg)


We analyse it with Tone Hacker, and apply the curves to a pure B&W image of ours. The result is this:

(http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/9269/ex3cw7.jpg)


Drawbacks of the program:
- At this moment this is a 8-bit files program. It can read 16-bit files, but they will be internally converted to 8-bit for processing. That means that if the toning is the last part of your whole processing it's fine, but if more manipulation has to be applied to the image after toning, the best way to preserve quality is to export the .acv curves and work with them in PS 16-bit files.
- The graphic library cannot read Greyscale 16-bit TIFF files (I think this type of file is not really a Windows standard). To do it just convert them previously to RGB or to Greyscale 8-bit and repeat the process.


Cheers.
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on November 05, 2006, 07:17:58 pm
wow! big success      
Another example...

We have this beautifully (this is just an opinion) coloured picture:

(http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/2236/rosasazulesqw9.jpg)


after analysing it with Tone Hacker we obtain the following curves to be applied (Rojo=R, Verde=G, Azul=B ):

(http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/2451/curvasxp0.jpg)



In this case we generated the PS file containing the curves, and by applying them to two pure B&W images we get:


(http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/4736/primulaaq2.jpg)


(http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/2294/florecillajw8.jpg)
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: maksim on November 06, 2006, 04:03:31 pm
What a great program!

I only used the "save curves" feature because this way I can build a nice library of selected tones to use in PhotoShop. Thanks a lot for sharing - very useful!
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Caracalla on November 06, 2006, 07:20:31 pm
SUPER COOL SOFTWARE!!! AMAIZING!!!

REGARDS
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Pete JF on November 06, 2006, 09:46:53 pm
Is this a pc program..not compatable with MAC? Tried to open and install but it wouldn't work.

Looks cool.
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on November 07, 2006, 04:38:29 am
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Is this a pc program..not compatable with MAC? Tried to open and install but it wouldn't work.

Looks cool.
[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=83919\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]


Hey! I am glad to see some feedback. I thought no one was interested in this tool and I think it works fine!!! I would ask you all to upload your tests here to show it to others. Just 2 pictures is fine: one with the toning you wanted to recreate, and another showing how it applies to a B&W picture of yours. Come on! please make that little effort. I spent a whole night writing this

Pete JF, yes it's a PC program. Unfortunately I don't program for Mac. Is it not possible to install Windows software on a Mac?
You can however calculate the curves on any Windows PC and take them to your Mac to tone your B&W pictures there.

Cheers.
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on November 07, 2006, 10:25:28 am
Well, I have tried downloading it several times over the last couple of days and can't get anything. I have tried Opera, Firefox, Netscape 8.1, and even (gasp) IE, with no success.

Netscape, for instance, keeps telling me that the "document has no content."

 

Eric
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on November 07, 2006, 02:52:08 pm
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Well, I have tried downloading it several times over the last couple of days and can't get anything. I have tried Opera, Firefox, Netscape 8.1, and even (gasp) IE, with no success.


Hi Eric, it's an .exe file, maybe it's your antivirus protection? I uploaded again as a ZIP, find it here:
TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE SERVER. KEEP COMING.

Please keep me informed. If it still doesn't work I'll email it to you.
Thanks for your interest.

Cheers.
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: TravellingLight on November 08, 2006, 12:58:01 am
Hi Guillermo,

That's a nice bit of work, thanks for posting it. Here's a quick effort, applying a toning ripped off Michael Kenna's (http://www.michaelkenna,net) current front page and applied to one of my shots with a similar atmosphere. Subtle but effective.  

(http://www.travelling-light.net/graphics/0312_10d.jpg)

Ideas for improvements: can you make it open with a filename passed on the command line from an external program? Also, make it possible to choose a directory for saving curves.

Thanks,

Colin
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on November 08, 2006, 04:09:35 am
Hey Colin!!! I love Michel Kenna too, nice to see this example of yours (BTW beautiful picture).
Check this URL, you'll find a lot of Kenna-like stuff (including him of course):
http://www.denisolivier.com (http://www.denisolivier.com)
http://www.denisolivier.com/link.php (http://www.denisolivier.com/link.php)

In fact I am planning to buy a very dense ND filter to get long exposures indaylight to get these atmospheres. Water, cloud and smoke get fantastic under a long exposure (let's say some minutes). But I have calculated I need a 15 or 16 stops filter, do you know if there is any available on the market?

(http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/1130/filtrosku2.jpg)

Thanks for your ideas, I'll keep them in mind together with other feedback. Please pass this tool to all your friends that could be interested.

Best.
Guillermo
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: LoisWakeman on November 08, 2006, 06:09:05 am
Hi Guillermo,

Is it OK for me to post a link to the download (and this thread for explanation) to some other forums I belong to?
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on November 08, 2006, 07:03:50 am
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Hi Guillermo,

Is it OK for me to post a link to the download (and this thread for explanation) to some other forums I belong to?
[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=84105\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

sure!
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: brianchapman on November 08, 2006, 12:32:31 pm
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In fact I am planning to buy a very dense ND filter to get long exposures indaylight to get these atmospheres. Water, cloud and smoke get fantastic under a long exposure (let's say some minutes). But I have calculated I need a 15 or 16 stops filter, do you know if there is any available on the market?

Guillermo, I'm using the B+W filter at 13 stops and for almost all occasions it's more than dark enough.  I'm actually planning on getting something in the range of 6-8 stops because I think it will better suit most situations.  I have not posted any day time long exposures on my web site yet but there are some examples on my flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianechapman) page.  

Also, thanks for the program!  Very impressive!  

Brian
http://www.brianchapmanphotography.com (http://www.brianchapmanphotography.com)
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: jjj on November 09, 2006, 12:35:09 am
A very simple but intriguing little tool. Nice one.
Not had much time to really play with it, but I noticed a bug, it saves curves to the location I installed programme from and not where I installed it to, which is kind of weird [and annoying].
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on November 09, 2006, 05:14:00 am
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A very simple but intriguing little tool. Nice one.
Not had much time to really play with it, but I noticed a bug, it saves curves to the location I installed programme from and not where I installed it to, which is kind of weird [and annoying].
[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=84268\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

OK fixed! now it saves the curves to the same directory as the last analysed image, which is indeed the image where the curves came from.

Anyway in the previous version it did not save the curves to any installation related location but to the location of the last loaded image. So if you loaded image1, analysed it, then loaded image2 and without analysing it press 'Save PS cuves', it would save the curves corresponding to image1 in the image2 route.
Now finally saves curves of image1 in the same route as image1, which is the logical expected behaviour.
Pleas don't ask me for a 'Save as...' option as I am not a programmer and I didn't plan this as a sofisticated and versatile software, but just as a useful tool to rip tones. And this part is very well achieved, isn't it?

Thanks for your report.
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: jjj on November 09, 2006, 04:17:08 pm
Quick work Guillermo, i'm impressed. But even better would be to put curves straight into PS curves folder. As then all images can easily access the curve rather than remembering which images have the nice curves and where they are. When you have thousands of folder, even if carefully organised, it's a pain.
But as we all have different set ups, I never use C drive for programmes or Windows for example. So I and probably others need to specify exactly where the file is saved to.
As it stands I would analyse image and then immediately export it to PS preset/curves folder.
Cheers Jez
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Jann Lipka on November 14, 2006, 01:19:53 am
It looks like for now there is no way to download tonehacker-
it seems that it has been removed from above 2 links  ..
Any other location ?
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on November 14, 2006, 03:54:17 pm
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It looks like for now there is no way to download tonehacker-
it seems that it has been removed from above 2 links  ..
Any other location ?
[{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=85079\")


The server was not working today, that is all. The file is still there. I hope tomorrow they have it fixed.

Anyway I would like to ask all those people downloading it, to give some feedback. I am sure more than 800 visits means at least 50 or 100 downloads, and no comments can be found here (good or bad). It took my time to code this program, and took more to show it to you. The only thing I ask for is some feeback or this tool will not be improved.

Best.

BTW: I have just written anothe piece of software to eliminate people from pictures automatically. This is an example. If you are interested, please, FEEDBACK.

This is the program GUI:

(http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/4003/guifp9.jpg)


We take several pictures (17 in this case) using a tripod of the same scene, all full of people and traffic as these:

(http://img280.imageshack.us/img280/1469/6piezasff6.jpg)


And in less than 3min the program produced this:

(http://img280.imageshack.us/img280/2573/resultadohk9.jpg)


[a href=\"http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/3613/originalqp8.jpg]actual size[/url]

Find an improved version that allows to use masks here:
Amenabar (http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=13139)
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: shoemount on November 14, 2006, 04:49:57 pm
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BTW: I have just written anothe piece of software to eliminate people from pictures automatically. This is an example. If you are interested, please, FEEDBACK.

Are you kidding? Of course I'm interested   As far as tonehacker goes, I've spent half a day trying to track down a copy. Looks like a brilliant piece of work - both programs do, actually.
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: wolfnowl on November 14, 2006, 07:32:28 pm
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Anyway I would like to ask all those people downloading it, to give some feedback. I am sure more than 800 visits means at least 50 or 100 downloads, and no comments can be found here (good or bad). It took my time to code this program, and took more to show it to you. The only thing I ask for is some feeback or this tool will not be improved.

I've downloaded it but haven't had time to play with it.  Nonetheless, I do appreciate the work you put into it!

Mike.
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: DarkPenguin on November 14, 2006, 09:37:21 pm
I'd like to try it (I'd really like to try your latest work.  Although I might code that sucker myself.)  but "página no encontrada".
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on November 14, 2006, 09:44:45 pm
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I've downloaded it but haven't had time to play with it.  Nonetheless, I do appreciate the work you put into it!

Mike.
[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=85301\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Me too. Other projects are taking my time right now, but I will try it soon and give some feedback.

Eric
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Jann Lipka on November 15, 2006, 02:22:46 am
"página no encontrada" on both links
today 15 november too .
No way to download it .
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: erwin bosman on November 15, 2006, 03:28:26 am
looks marvelous !

but I still have problems downloading it !
would you mind sending it to my address at : photo.erwin@gmail.com

thanks !

erwin
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: jjj on November 15, 2006, 07:27:52 am
I was very impressed with your first programme. Feedback above.
And then you knock this up!
Can you design a Photoshop rival by Christmas too?  
I'd certainly like to try this other programme too.
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: mrunderhill on November 16, 2006, 10:47:58 am
The first post has been editted with a new download link for both tools


I have just downloaded both tools and will hopefully have a play on the weekend and get you some feedback asap
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: dmcginlay on November 20, 2006, 06:41:33 am
Great program for toning!

I have use the analysis and tone features, but how do you apply PS curve files (ACV) in PS, I've never done that before?

Thanks,

Don
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on November 20, 2006, 10:45:07 am
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Great program for toning!

I have use the analysis and tone features, but how do you apply PS curve files (ACV) in PS, I've never done that before?

Thanks,

Don
[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=86142\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

Hi dmcginlay! that's simple: once you have saved your .acv file, go to PS, load your pure B&W image to tone, and choose: Adjust->Curves. A window will pop up where you can 'Load' (I guess these should be the terms in the English version). There you have simply to provide that .acv curve file, you will instantly see the results applied to your B&W picture.

Cheers.
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: kenpas on November 24, 2006, 04:27:25 pm
Hello! I just downloaded the program and gave it a go. It really works great. I tried if Photoshop's Match Color function gives anything similar and it doesn't. Tone Hacker works better.

Below is an example of tone hacking using the same rose picture seen in this thread. Both images could be tweaked a little better, but toning works.

First original:
(http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/4926/imgoriginalvy8.jpg)

Then toned:
(http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/2838/imgtonediv2.jpg)
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on December 05, 2006, 06:38:11 am
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Hello! I just downloaded the program and gave it a go. It really works great. I tried if Photoshop's Match Color function gives anything similar and it doesn't. Tone Hacker works better.

Nice example kenpas. Thank you for your feeback and time, hope you find Tone Hacker useful.
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: miguel.jf on February 17, 2007, 04:44:42 am
I've tried tone hacker for a while and it works sweet for me.
Gracias Guillermo!  
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: VFTT on February 19, 2007, 03:39:35 pm
Great work!  I downloaded a copy and it only took me minutes to get curves from a shot I liked on photo.net and apply them to one of my shots:

(http://www.viewsfromthetop.com/potn/9022-600-sepia1.jpg)


Very cool.  Thanks for posting this.  Surprised there isn't more buzz about this yet.  I registered on this forum just to post this thank you.

Thanks

 - d
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Danijela D. Karic on February 20, 2007, 05:07:10 pm
Att: [span style=\'font-size:11pt;line-height:100%\']GLuijk[/span]

When will this software be available on Mac? and if this in fact is a PC software,
could it be installed on intel Mac and run from Mac eventually?

I agree, it is very thoughtful idea.

Regards
Danijela
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on February 20, 2007, 05:27:39 pm
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Att: [span style=\'font-size:11pt;line-height:100%\']GLuijk[/span]When will this software be available on Mac? and if this in fact is a PC software,
could it be installed on intel Mac and run from Mac eventually?[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=101992\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

hehe, as soon as Apple provides me with a nice iBook

TH has been installed on Macs running without problems:

(http://joan.catorce.org/img/tonehacker_OSX_2.jpg)

running over Windows under Parallels in coherence mode, 100% integrated on OSX. Windows is installed in a HD partition using boot camp.
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Richard Marcellus on February 20, 2007, 09:23:07 pm
Thanks GLuijk,

Tone Hacker is a really neat piece of work.

Richard
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Danijela D. Karic on February 22, 2007, 12:09:38 am
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hehe, as soon as Apple provides me with a nice iBook
[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=102002\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Did you talk to Mac? for them to adopt your software as addition to their line of software’s, they'll be ready to cash you much more then just a little monster Mac.

Perhaps even better, go straight to Adobe and enjoy the ride.

I just hope you do it with the professional assistance of N.Y. or L.A. Agents, they are Sharks but they'll get you on board.

[span style=\'font-size:12pt;line-height:100%\']Perhaps, addition to their future upgrade of Adobe Lightroom. Remember, it's good timing![/span]

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TH has been installed on Macs running without problems:

(http://joan.catorce.org/img/tonehacker_OSX_2.jpg)

running over Windows under Parallels in coherence mode, 100% integrated on OSX. Windows is installed in a HD partition using boot camp.
[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=102002\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]


That's awesome, thank you very much.

Regards
Danijela
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on February 23, 2007, 04:28:41 am
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Did you talk to Mac? for them to adopt your software as addition to their line of software’s, they'll be ready to cash you much more then just a little monster Mac.

Perhaps even better, go straight to Adobe and enjoy the ride.

I just hope you do it with the professional assistance of N.Y. or L.A. Agents, they are Sharks but they'll get you on board.

cool idea Danijela hehe. Any volunteer?

Just kidding. I don't thik this simple tool is worth the move and anyway I think I already have money enough to live happily. So I'd rather give this tool for free to anyone who can find it useful.

Thanks.
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: andybuk99 on February 24, 2007, 08:46:21 am
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cool idea Danijela hehe. Any volunteer?

Just kidding. I don't thik this simple tool is worth the move and anyway I think I already have money enough to live happily. So I'd rather give this tool for free to anyone who can find it useful.

Thanks.
[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=102541\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]


That is refreshing to hear  
Its nice that there are still some people that do things for the love of it and not just for money.
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Danijela D. Karic on February 26, 2007, 01:46:44 am
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cool idea Danijela hehe. Any volunteer?
[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=102541\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
If you send your question at the right place, there will be plenty of them to assist.

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Just kidding. I don't thik this simple tool is worth the move
[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=102541\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
The fact remains, your simple tool as you like to call it, is an excellent & very, very useful tool.

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and anyway I think I already have money enough to live happily. So I'd rather give this tool for free to anyone who can find it useful.

Thanks.
[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=102541\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
In deed, it is a very noble thing to do. However, it is not about the money only, it is about the idea that could be improved and raised at the different level. You perhaps will be happy to write it the way it is and leave it at that, on the other hand you have talented people such as your self that will bring this simple tool as you call it along with you on a totally different level. Weather it is free or not, if it is part of the Photoshop, Lightroom, etc. It is just a nice and practical way. Now, with regards of you having enough money is a beautiful & convenient position, but nevertheless your future ideas could be supported with the funds you receive from your tools. At the end, we have the tool free of charge thanks to you, but eventually somebody along the way will replace it, and I am in  favor of the original creator, that’s all.

Regards
Danijela
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on March 06, 2007, 10:07:59 am
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If you send your question at the right place, there will be plenty of them to assist.
The fact remains, your simple tool as you like to call it, is an excellent & very, very useful tool.
In deed, it is a very noble thing to do. However, it is not about the money only, it is about the idea that could be improved and raised at the different level. You perhaps will be happy to write it the way it is and leave it at that, on the other hand you have talented people such as your self that will bring this simple tool as you call it along with you on a totally different level. Weather it is free or not, if it is part of the Photoshop, Lightroom, etc. It is just a nice and practical way. Now, with regards of you having enough money is a beautiful & convenient position, but nevertheless your future ideas could be supported with the funds you receive from your tools. At the end, we have the tool free of charge thanks to you, but eventually somebody along the way will replace it, and I am in  favor of the original creator, that’s all.

Regards
Danijela
[{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=103177\")

oh that's a good point indeed. I am opened to any kind of collaboration. In fact I sent an email to Adobe's website, not to sell them my tool, but to give them the idea of it being put into future PS versions.

Thanks a lot for taking your time on these comments Danijela. And sorry for the delay; I just come to the Luminous from time to time to find out what's going on.

I am indeed planning to enhance Tone Hacker with HSV curves. Coming soon...


PS: on the last version (1.1) which can now be downloaded, I put a couple of useless digital effects into it, just to play not to mean anything useful. If wanna try just donwload it.

(http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/628/dibujoag7.jpg)


A demostration of these effects can be found here:

[a href=\"http://www.ojodigital.com/foro/showthread.php?t=126269]http://www.ojodigital.com/foro/showthread.php?t=126269[/url]

EXPLODE: random pixels explosion. Radius explosion selectable:
(http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/1580/p2fo6.jpg)
Original image (http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/3646/p1dx3.jpg)

MOSAIC FUSION: fusion of two images forming a mosaic of selectable width:
(http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/7513/fusion1bv5.jpg)
The images were these:
Image 1 (http://www.pbase.com/gluijk/image/68220569)
Image 2 (http://www.pbase.com/gluijk/image/68221173)

INTERLACE: vertical or horizontal interlacing with selectable width and displacement:
(http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6245/f1qg2.jpg)
Original image (http://www.pbase.com/gluijk/image/73730465)

PS DARKEN/CLEARING FUSION MODE: this was a request from another forum user. He wanted to be able to perform something like PS Darken/Bright layer modes; which select for each pixel the darkest/brightest of two layers, but in this case for any luminance value. I mean, not only to pick up the pixel closer to 0 or to 255 level, but the one closer to any selectable value ranging from 0 to 255. The example below show the fusion of 2 images selecting pixels closer to 127-level. The result is not pleasant, but it is not used as is. In fact is a part of more complicated processings.

(http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/7563/pegasopg5.jpg)
The images were these:
Image 1 (http://www.pbase.com/gluijk/image/67785408)
Image 2 (http://www.pbase.com/gluijk/image/68441131)




Best regards.
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: rslv on March 11, 2007, 05:33:03 pm
I had promised myself I wouldn't register to more forums...information overflow etc.
-but I had to thank you for creating these programs!

Both programs are excellent and have great potential, I hope you will continue to develop them.
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: NoLight on March 25, 2007, 06:15:33 pm
Wow neat program!! Thanx. I was wondering if there was a way to scale the preview so I could see the whole picture. All I get is 100% scale right now. I am running 1.2.
Thanx Chaz
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: NoLight on March 28, 2007, 08:26:48 am
I was wondering if there was a way to scale the preview so I could see the whole picture. All I get is 100% scale right now. I am running 1.2. Anyone have any ideas on this?
Thanx Chaz
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on March 28, 2007, 04:34:23 pm
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I was wondering if there was a way to scale the preview so I could see the whole picture. All I get is 100% scale right now. I am running 1.2. Anyone have any ideas on this?
Thanx Chaz
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ok ok don't panic NoLight. I was lazy to do this but finally I coded a little rescale routine just for displaying purposes (it will NOT affect curve calculation results which will take the entire image data).

You just have to double click on your image to have this 1280x900 manga girl fitted into the display area.
In the same way images smaller than the display area will be upsized to fit in it.
Aspect ratio is always kept (as in PS).

Also a new Hue (tone) histogram has been added (look on the right), to check all tones present on images.

PS: BTW as you can see the tip text is dedicated to you, thx for your interest


(http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/2976/mangaek1.jpg)
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: NoLight on March 28, 2007, 08:56:08 pm
LOL now how cool is that!!!! Thanx man I love the program and thanx for the cool plug!!!!
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: :Ollivr on March 29, 2007, 05:03:30 am
Hola! This looks really nice! Thank you very much! I will try it out very soon and if I have some useful thoughts I get back here!
Greetings
O.
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: mythos on April 06, 2007, 04:00:26 pm
This is a very impressive software!

It shows the best black and white conversions I ever saw.
So it is valuable even by using only the option "desaturate".

But I noticed a litte bug:
Pushing too often the option buttons, a file with a very long name will be produced, which cannot be opened, renamed or deleted. Avoiding this problem, one has to watch patiently the progress of the status announcements.
The only method to get rid of the corrupted file, is to save the intact files and then delete the whole folder with the corrupted file.

A better way would be, not to allow the program automatic saving, but to save only by explicit ordering.

P.S.:
Please excuse my bad american - I´m a "Kraut"...  
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: sonic on May 04, 2007, 07:48:07 am
Hello GLuijk!

I want to report error in my instalation. I tried it on 3 computers and error is always:

Run-time  error '429'
ActiveX component can't create object

when i'm starting it.
I can see form with "let's tone" button but then window with error message pop up

Like some dll is not registred ? I have VB6 runtime files.... Please help...

Sonic
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: HickersonJasonC on May 06, 2007, 11:43:06 am
I've tried to download for the last few days as well. The first download worked fine but installation gave a runtime error as another poster above mentioned. I tried again today but "pagina no encontrada."

Perhaps you're not getting many replies because most of us haven't been able to download properly.

Any ideas?
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: HickersonJasonC on May 06, 2007, 05:40:26 pm
I was able to download and install and the software works great. I was able to tone a couple of images very quickly. I'll play around a bit more and see if I can export the curves to the appropriate folder in PS.

A couple of suggestions: it could be a bit more intuitive, especially the " . . . " interface; the automatic saving is not very useful as you can't point it to a specific folder (or am I missing something?).

Overall, very interesting software. Great job!
Title: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: Guillermo Luijk on May 11, 2007, 05:17:44 am
I am sorry for not coming here in such a long time. Thanks all for the reported errors, I think they have already been fixed:

- The ActiveX error was due to I eliminated the Paintlib library from the installer. So users that did not have this library already installed could not run TH.
- The long names crash has also been fixed. Now a maximum length fil is allowed, truncating it if exceeded.

I recommend you to add my website (http://perso.wanadoo.es/gluijk (http://perso.wanadoo.es/gluijk)) to your favourites as new pieces of software and improvements are continuously being applied.

Regarding TH, I have already developed a colour version to emulate tonings on colour pictures (in this case 2 pictures will be necessary, the original and the final to compare). Find some examples here: http://www.ojodigital.com/foro/showthread.php?t=134449 (http://www.ojodigital.com/foro/showthread.php?t=134449)

Original image:
(http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/909/antesmoviexe2.jpg)


With a special filter applied becomes:
(http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/6912/despuesmovieha0.jpg)


If we had both them, TH-colour can compare them and obtain the curves to go from the first to the other:

(http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1029/despuesmoviejpgcurev1.gif)


Now we can apply these curves to the original to check the emulation quality:

(http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1083/imitamovieco5.jpg)]


Skins are not so green as in the original, but the overall emulation in one only curve works quite OK. Now these curves can be applied to any other pic.


This will improve with a new HSV mode instead of RGB is on the way. From an HSV model more calculations have to be done, but tones and saturations can be perfecly emulated (RGB encounters problems when facing contrast and tone control at the same time).

Hicker, yes, the destination folder is predeterminated by the location of the original file (for this reason I guess it will crash if images are located in a place with no write permission such as a CD hehe). This makes things much easier for me, I am not a programmer. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Best
Title: Re: Tone Hacker v1.0: free soft to rip B&W tonings
Post by: yoss3145 on November 20, 2012, 11:13:55 pm
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I recommend you to add my website (http://perso.wanadoo.es/gluijk) to your favourites as new pieces of software and improvements are continuously being applied.

Checked the site out and bookmarked, very impressive, Thanks.