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 | | From: | Rose | | Subject: | Re: how to give simple jpeg photos of people a 3d look? | | Date: | Sun, 16 Jan 2005 01:17:58 GMT |
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 | On 5 Dec 2004 00:39:59 -0800, vincemoon@rcn.com (David Virgil Hobbs)
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>Is there a software that is able to import a photograph of a person in
>jpeg or tiff or bmp or gif format, and then give it a 3d look, by
>producing effects such as what the photo would look like if a light
>source was in various 3d - enhancing positions relative to the
>subject of the photograph?
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>Seems all the 3d programs require you to create or import a 3d object
>or use a premade 3d object. I have not stumbled across any programs
>that allow you to simply enhance the 3d look in a typical jpeg of a
>photograph of a person. Seems to me such should be possible because a
>software could first be instructed as to where the light sources were
>relative to the person photographed when the person was photographed,
>and then the software could use this info to give the person in the
>photograph various 3d looks depending upon where the light source(s)
>were posited to be.
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>I am not interested in producing a 3d movie of any kind; I am not into
>producing a 3d object that can be rotated and looked at from various
>directions. I am simply interested in enhancing the 3d look in a still
>photograph, to make the photograph look more like the stills created
>by 3d programs.
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>I spent a good amount of time searching the net for info re what apps
>can do this kind of thing, and I was irritated but not surprised to
>find that I could not find the kind of info I was looking for. The
>general idea seems to be that the 3d look can only be given to 3d
>models, whose coordinates are known to the computer in 3 dimensions
>rather than 2.
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>If anyone knows of any such softwares, the cheaper and simpler the
>better.
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Yes you might want to try and see what you can do with your graphics
programs. I have Paint Shop Pro and I have tutorial about giving
images a 3D effect by using the "wind" option. There should be
something similar to give your picture a "light" affect.
Rose
http://members.aol.com/Roseb44170/home.html
"How in the heck did I ever get talked into this?"
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