When i choose a known black panel in photoplan, it doesnt show up as black. I can only choose black frame. Is it possible to fix the colour to match the panels? Or make it possible to Chang  the colour of the panel like in the 3D configuration? 

Hi patrik k,

this is not possible with Photo Plan. There is a workaround, which takes about 5 minutes using GIMP, an open source bitmap manupulation program https://www.gimp.org/

1. Open the picture
2. Use the "Free Select"-Tool for selecting the module area
3. Via Colors > Saturation set the saturation of the selected area to 0.0.
4. Export the picture with the changes you made.

Best regards,
Frederik

I tried to set the saturation to 0 but only get this colour? They only get grey...

@frederik?

 

Hi patrik k,

sorry for the late response. Could you send me the "original" picture from PhotoPlan here or via private message? Thank you in advance.

Best regards,
Frederik

On 5/10/2021 at 10:27 AM, developer_fw said:

Hi patrik k,

sorry for the late response. Could you send me the "original" picture from PhotoPlan here or via private message? Thank you in advance.

Best regards,
Frederik

 

You can change the colour of the frames in PV sol, is it much work for you to also implement it on the colur it self

Hi patrik k,

the problem here is, that PhotoPlan is external software that was bought by us a long time ago. Due to the age there is no maintenance and neither do we have the source code nor do we have permission to change anything. This is why my standard answers refer to bitmap manipulating.

I tried a bit, there is no recipe, but with brightness, contrast and some colour variation, you could achieve this:

Best regards,
Frederik

@frederikdo you think it is possible for me to get in contact with the company that made photoplan to perhaps make this change that owns and knows the code? I understand that there would be a cost for changing this. but since we sell 90% black panels it would make a lot of differnence!

Hi patrik k,

the contact to the company is http://www.sbs-softwaresysteme.de/site/303/Kontakt.aspx

Best regards,
Frederik

@patrik k 

I'm having the same issue.
Do you heard anything new from PhotoPlan or this Company?

Dear Josua,

Thank you for your inquiry.

Photo Plan has been revised. First, select a PV module with black cells in PV*SOL, then select the texture with a black backsheet and frame in the lower right corner of Photo Plan.