Ximagic Photoshop Plugins

Ximagic Denoiser toolbox

Ximage Denoiser is a photoshop plugin for image noise reduction.

It provides five different methods for noise reduction

• Median (Box)
• Bilateral
• Wavelets (hard threshold)
• Non-linear (anisotropic) diffusion (Curvature & Gradient)
• Non Local Means (NL Means)
• DCT

Methods can be mixed in an image, aplying different methods to different areas.

Can be also used in other compatible plugin hosts (Paint Shop Pro, Photo-Paint, The Gimp, Irfanview, Xnview, Photobie, ....)

Ximagic Quantizer toolbox

Ximage Quantizer is a photoshop plugin for image color quantization (color reduction) & dithering.

Provides 10 color quantization methods.

• Uniform
• Popularity
• Octree
• Median
• Xiaolin Wu v2
• Dennis lee v3
• Binary Split
• Lloyd (K-Means)
• Neuquant
• SColorQ

14 predefined Threshold dithering methods plus user configurable Thresholding.

• Dispersed-dot
  • Threshold
  • Checks
  • Diffusion 2x2
  • Diffusion 3x3
  • Diffusion 4x4
  • Diffusion 8x8
• Clustered-dot
  • Halftone 45° 4x4
  • Halftone 45° 6x6
  • Halftone 45° 8x8
  • Halftone 90° 4x4
  • Halftone 90° 6x6
  • Halftone 90° 8x8
  • Halftone 90° 16x16
• Random
• User configurable

And 9 error diffusion dither methods.

• Error Diffusion
  • Floyd-Steinberg
  • Ulichney
  • Fan
  • Jarvis
  • Stucki
  • Sierra3
  • Sierra2
  • Sierra24A
• Space filling curves
  • Riemersma

Can be also used in other compatible plugin hosts (Paint Shop Pro, Photo-Paint, The Gimp, Irfanview, Xnview, Photobie, ....)

Important: This plugin reduces the number of colors in a image, but doesn't change a RGB image to indexed color. If you want to use it to change an image from RGB to index color, you should use your image tool to change the image mode, after running XImagic quantizer.

Ximage GrayDither toolbox

Ximage GrayDither is a photoshop plugin to reduce color/grayscale images to n-level gray using dithering. As a particular case could produce B/W bitmap images (2-level grayscale)

• Automatically convert RGB color to grayscale using Y in YCbCr colorspace
• Provides 14 ordered dithering methods.
• Provides 9 error dithering methods.

Can be also used in other compatible plugin hosts (Paint Shpo Pro, Photo-Paint, The Gimp, Irfanview, Xnview, Photobie, ....)