This plugin maps the colours of an image, selection, or layer to the currently selected colour palette in Paint.NET(PDN). This effect can be useful in artwork creation for consoles that use fixed palettes such as the (S)NES, the Sega Master System, or GameBoy Color. The effect can also be used to achieve a certain look.
I created this plugin for personal purposes and decided to share it. The reason I didn't just use existing plugins was the lack of dithering support. Since I use the plugin for creating artwork for retro games, the quality improvement from error diffusion seemed well worth the effort.
The plugin can be installed by copying the effect DLL and optionally the sub-directories and localised resource DLLs therein to the Effects folder of your PDN installation directory.
You will find the plugin in the Effects menu under the Color sub-menu.
In order to build the plugin from source, you need a Microsoft Windows 7 or newer with PDN installed. Compilation was only tested on 64-bit Windows 10 v1709:
- PDN v4.0.6 or later
- .NET-Framework 4.7
- Visual Studio 2017 (Community Edition or better)
- C# Language Version 7.1 or later
In case your PDN installation is not located at C:\Program Files\paint.net, you need to change the reference to the proper location of the assemblies on your machine.
Open the solution file in Visual Studio and rebuild to generate the plugin.
You can use the source code to localise and modify the texts used by the plugin. To do that, you can either modify the file Strings.resx directly or copy it to Strings.[ISO 639-1 language code].resx and translate the texts in the new file.
Compiling will then create a new resource DLL and a new locale directory, both of which need to be copied to the PDN effects folder to apply the changes. Note that the language code you choose needs to match the locale of your operating system in order for the localised version to get applied - e.g. Strings.fr.resx for French texts only works if the UI language of your OS is also set to French.
Please refer to the framework documentation for further details.
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