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July 2009 - Posts

Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:58 AM

Where, oh where, have my Blueprints gone?

Recently posted on MSDN . And on Michael Lehman’s blog . (Recently being May.  Where the heck have I been?) I am so happy to that the Blueprints (or whatever they will be called next) aren’t completely dead.  I may have uttered a few obscenities
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:57 AM

#9 – If nougat and soy were ever to touch, we’d all be vaporized – the ReplaceChannelCommand

Ingredients: 2 AtalaImages (one continuous color, one grayscale) 1 ReplaceChannelCommand Salt and pepper to taste Directions: In a Visual Studio project, create two AtalaImages, one for the color image and one for the grayscale image.  Set aside. 
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:07 PM

#8 – The best way to see a MiG 28 do a 4g negative dive – the InvertCommand

In the last few command entries, I have highlighted some commands that, through adjusting channels or looking up new values in a table, you can invert your image.  But who has time to do all that? Instead, we bring you the InvertCommand.  Black
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 5:53 PM

#7 – Giza, Babylon, Olympia, Ephesus, Halicarnassus, Rhodes, and Alexandria – the FlattenAlphaCommand

Okay, so the title of this blog post is really just a cheap attempt at misdirection .  After all, what more can be said about the FlattenAlphaCommand than: The FlattenAlphaCommand blends the transparent areas of an image with a solid color to remove
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:09 AM

#6 – Perfect – The ApplyLutCommand

Also known as Aaron to #5’s Ruth . The first question here is “What is a lut?”  L.U.T. stands for Look-Up-Table , which is a way to replace values in a program by “looking them up” in an array or table, instead of calculating the values.  The
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:51 AM

#5 – This one’s for the starfish – the AdjustHslCommand

Yesterday , we adjusted the colors in our image by targeting the channels.  Today, we adjust the image’s hue, saturation, and luminosity with the AdjustHslCommand. I could practically copy yesterday’s post to today – you need a color image, the Region
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:36 PM

#4 – No Fibonacci Here – The AdjustChannelCommand

Too much blue?  Not enough blue?  Get rid of blue altogether?  The AdjustChannelCommand lets you manually adjust the colors in your image by adjusting the channels .  It is available for DotImage Photo , Photo Pro , and Document Imaging
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Monday, July 06, 2009 2:25 PM

#3 – Between e and Pi – The ChangePixelFormatCommand

Enter the ChangePixelFormatCommand.  It changes your image’s pixel format.  It is available for DotImage Photo , Photo Pro , and Document Imaging . You may say, “Elaine, why would I use that when I can just call GetChangedPixelFormat from my
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 3:35 PM

#2 – One for each hand – The AutoCropCommand

Sure, this one should be pretty straightforward.  As the name implies, this command automatically crops the solid color border from the edge of an image.  It is available for DotImage Photo , Photo Pro , and Document Imaging . Setting parameters
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:05 PM

#1 in a very long list – ApplyPaletteCommand

Greetings, Campers.  A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, some very smart people decided to make things easy.  They developed a bunch of ImageCommands, which, though they did some pretty nifty things to images, were stab-your-eyes-out
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