The DynamicPaintbrush Module
Ever wanted to use a paintbrush in PixInsight to help you adjust your masks? If yes, you’re in the right place!
DynamicPaintbrush is a PixInsight dynamic process that allows us to define a custom brush and use it to paint over any view (opened image) in PixInsight.
Since directly painting over an astroimage is not typically needed, the DynamicPaintbrush tool was designed to paint on images that we’d be using as masks. For that reason, this implementation only paints in black, white and any level of opacity. We can also define the brush size and softness – from 100% hard edges to nice and smooth, blurry brushes.
The full documentation for DynamicPaintbrush is included a few paragraphs below.
TRY IT!
DynamicPaintbrush is not free, but you can try a 100% functional copy for 30 days. If you want to use it after that, it’s a one-time payment of just 6.99 US$. Your purchase also gives you a lifetime of free upgrades. No subscription fees, no fees for newer versions as they come out. $6.99 gives you the latest version of DynamicPaintbrush at any time, for life.
DynamicPaintbrush is only distributed via a PixInsight repository, as this is the easiest and safest way to install new PixInsight modules.
All we need to do to install our trial copy is add the DynamicPaintbrush repository to our PixInsight installation, which we can do in less than two minutes:
- We open PixInsight, and select the RESOURCES menu.
- In the RESOURCES menu, we select Updates, then Manage Repositories
- In the Manage Update Repositories window, we click Add.
- In the URL box, we enter exactly:
https://repo.deepskycolors.com/DynamicPaintbrush/
- We click Ok to save it, and it should be listed along other repository URLs. We click Ok to close the Manage Update Repositories window.
- With that done, we now do RESOURCES > Updates > Check for Updates
- The DynamicPaintbrush will appear as a candidate for installation, and automatically selected. We click Apply.
- After that, PixInsight will inform us that the install will happen once we restart PixInsight. We do that, and DynamicPaintbrush will be under PROCESS > DeepSkyColors and PROCESS > Painting.
Using our PixInsight repository as the only official DynamicPaintbrush source also comes with the guarantee of our Developer and Repository certificates, required and verified by the PixInsight application from the moment it connects to our repository until it completes installation of the DynamicPaintbrush module.
Register your copy!
When you register your copy of DynamicPaintbrush, you can install and use it on any machine you have also installed PixInsight, regardless of operating system (your registration is valid for any and all platforms) or number of installations. Please, select your payment method below:
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DynamicPaintbrush
6.99 US$
NOTE: After you make your purchase, you will receive an email from PayPal. You may or may not receive an email from us following your order, but if your account was charged, your order was placed and we’ll be sending you the registration key within 3 to 5 days.
DynamicPaintbrush Documentation
DynamicPaintbrush’s full documentation is accessible from within DynamicPaintbrush itself – we just need to click on the Documentation button in DynamicPaintbrush . We have also made the same documentation available online, here:
DynamicPaintbrush Official Documentation.
Credits
DynamicPaintbrush was developed using the PixInsight Class Library. Any product derived from the PCL, including DynamicPaintbrush, must reproduce the following acknowledgment:
This product is based on software from the PixInsight project, developed by Pleiades Astrophoto and its contributors (http://pixinsight.com/).
The above statement refers to our use of the PCL to develop DynamicPaintbrush only. DynamicPaintbrush is developed independently, without any relation to or specific contributions from Pleiades Astrophoto.