Paint Modes - D


Defocus

Secondary : No

Uses colour : No

Options : Defocus power

Description :

Defocus is a very powerful image blur effect. All sharp detail in an image will be lost leaving only a heavily blurred colour image. This does a similar effect to the Gaussian Blur menu item (although it is not as accurate, it is MUCH faster).

Deinterlace

Secondary : No

Uses colour : No

Options : Odd field/Even field

Description :

This effect is designed to help clean up interlaced video frame grabs from devices like the V-Lab Video Digitizer, but can also work with other images (such as high resolution pictures intended for display on interlaced computer screens).

Interlaced frames, may appear to 'jitter'. Deinterlace will remove this error. The option controls whether the 'odd' or 'even' field will be kept in the area (each video frame contains two fields, odd and even. It is differences between these two fields that cause the flicker with interlaced pictures).

DirtyPaint

Secondary : No

Uses colour : Yes

Options : Noise Amount

Description :

DirtyPaint is the same as the standard paint mode, except you can control a veriable setting to add a grainy texture. This can be useful for blending in small spots of colour on a photographic quality image, which if applied with normal paint would look too clean.

DisplaceMap

Secondary : Yes

Uses colour : No

Options : X-Factor (1-250), Y-Factor (1-250)

Description :

Displace pixel according to intensity of the pixel in the secondary picture. This can distort pixels in a variety of unusual ways to create waves, ripples, squashed, stretched and other images. This is a very powerful feature, see the tutorial on how to create a rippled picture with DisplaceMap.

Dither

Secondary : No

Uses colour : No

Options : None

Description :

This adds an ordered dither pattern to your image. This reduces the number of colours used in the image by combining dots of different colours to approximate the true colour.

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