Tutorials and Learning

Beginners Corner - basic and gentle introduction by Bil Abington Beginners Corner (PDF) Manual. The manual is already included in the installation, but it can be also downloaded separately: Reactor Manual

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Article: Frequency Separation technique with Photo Reactor

Plugins and SDK

The example projects are made for MS VC6 and MS VS2008 and do not dependent on any external libraries or MFC so they can be easily used in other compilers or MS VS editions. Furthermore the Photo-Reactor itself can create the UI interface and C++ source code for the plug-in where you just fill in the blanks. PluginSDK Download Included Samples: plugin - a basic plugin that desaturate the image with a slider for strength and check box for inversion. (Similar to the Desaturate effect in Reactor) pluginbind - example how to create a binding plug-in with a simple on-the-workspace slider object that can control value of other objects (Similar to the Slider object in Reactor) pluginrect - an example of drawing semi-transparent rectangle on the image and the calculation necessary for preview cropping (Similar to the Simple Shape object in Reactor) plugin2input.zip - separate download for 2 input plugin sample Guide to Photo-Reactor SDK by Andy Dansby. Thanks to the broad range of topics it also doubles as a great introductory to graphic programming: Photo Reactor SDK (PDF) Source code companion to the SDK document: Mean.zip, Max.zip, Min.zip, standard_deviation.zip Generate Source Code (Menu Tools) The Photo-Reactor can generate the necessary Source code for the plug-in UI and class which will set up the interface and settings. You will receive generated plugin.cpp file that can be simply substituted in the example projects - that's all.

Plugins and SDK

Plugin examples

Plugin	32-bit	64-bit	Description
QR Code Generator (c) Mediachance	included in installation	included in installation	Generates QR bar code on the image
Luminance by andydansby	luminancex86	Luminance64	Extracts the Luminance from an RGB image using 17 methods
Sepia by andydansby	Sepiax86	Sepia64	Turns your image into an olde time image by placing a Sepia toning matrix to your image
Daltonism by andydansby	Daltonismx86	---	Simulates Color Blindness
White Balance by andydansby	whitebalancex86	whitebalance64	In this plugin, I demonstrate white balance with 4 standard routines, Histogram stretch, White Pixel, Grey World and Modified Grey World. I also have 4 experimental white balance routines. Source code: whitebalancesrc.zip
MonoTone by andydansby	monotone	monotone64	Any color you want Sepia. Here's a link to the source code. ( compiled using VS2012)
Blend++ by andydansby	blendplusplusx32	blendplusplusx64	This plugin contains 27 different blending modes and a strength dial.

Windows 10,8,7

Photo Reactor

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