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Using Pixelsquid to add 3D Star Wars (and other) objects to your images

May 29, 2016 by Roderique Arisiaman 14 Comments
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I’m always looking for good stock images to use in my photoshop composites. I find them online, or use the awesome Texture Store. Or I make my own. But sometimes its impossible to find the right image that fits your idea.

And if you do find the right image, it’s at the wrong angle or too small, or not lighted the way you want to. So you’ll just end up with a crappy composite, or spending hours of time to get it right.

A while ago I was preparing a workshop and looking into the possibility to teach everyone about using photoshop’s built in 3D options. Photoshop has been developing integration with 3D for a while and you can even get as far as prepare a file for 3D printing now.

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NVidia presents Ansel, “The World’s First in-game camera system”

May 8, 2016 by John Aldred 4 Comments
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For those who hate having to actually get up off their computers and leave the house, photography can be a potentially tricky prospect.  Now, Nvidia have presented the world with a possible solution to this problem in the form of Ansel; An in-game “camera system”.  Ok, so it’s not really photography, but it is quite an interesting technology.

The Ansel photo mode allows you to step outside of the game’s predetermined destiny for your character, and allow you to position your camera and compose your shot with a fully free form camera, with full 360 degree stereoscopic abilities viewable on a range of devices including your mobile phone.

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This company raised a million dollars to print 360º photographs onto spheres

Apr 22, 2016 by Gannon Burgett Add Comment
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Virtual reality might be the buzz of the town, but a new company called Scandy wants the world to know that the world of 360º content isn’t destined only for headsets.

Today, the company announced it’s raised one million dollars to start mass production on their ‘Scandy Spheres,’ a ball-shaped object that has a 360º image printed into them.[Read More…]

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This short film was made entirely by animating old photos from the 20th century

Apr 7, 2016 by Gannon Burgett Add Comment
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By combining photographs from the past with technology from today, Moscow-based photographer and animator Alexey Zakharov has created an incredible animation short titled The Old New World.[Read More…]

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Photographer blends reality with CG to produce amazing surreal landscapes

Mar 7, 2016 by John Aldred 6 Comments
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We’ve all had that feeling of being in a beautiful or dramatic landscape, wanting to capture it, and then found it was missing just a little something once we got it home and saw the images big on the computer screen.

German architectural photographer, Andreas Levers has also felt that on occasion and decided to do something about it by blending the real with the computer generated.

DIYP spoke to Andreas to get a little more information and some insight into his work and process.

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Mind-Boggling Inception-like Photos of Turkish Cityscapes

Jan 28, 2016 by Liron Samuels 1 Comment
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Inspired by Edwin Abbat’s “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions”, Turkish artist Aydin Büyüktaş created these exquisite warped images of Istanbul.

The photos might seem difficult to create, and rightfully so. Creating the series, called ‘Flatland’, required months of planning, 3D software, a drone and plenty of patience.

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How To Build Your Own 3D Stereo Camera

Jan 25, 2015 by Paul Richters 7 Comments
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If you ever thought about taking 3D photos or video you are going to love this tutorial. It is based around the oldish Ricoh GX8, but you can adapt it to any camera you desire, as long as you can trigger them remotely. The general idea is quite simple, and here is the outline for it:

Take a two digital cameras which can be triggered remotely. Make a frame for the cameras with two compartments, so they are parallel to each other. Make/buy a Y splitter so you can trigger both left and right camera simultaneously. Put the left and right image together using StereoPhoto Maker. Make your own stereo viewer and enjoy your own 3d images.

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Awesome New Photo Editing Software Helps Us See What Our Cameras Couldn’t

Sep 1, 2014 by Tiffany Mueller 9 Comments
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Imagine taking a single photograph of an object and being able to bring that lonely image into editing software that would allow you to turn the object around 360°, revealing all its sides which the camera never even saw. Software that would let you take a single picture (just one frame) of an origami bird and still allow you to turn the bird around, flip it over, even animate it as though you had many photos of the bird from every angle….

Sounds pretty cool, right? Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University thought so, too.  The researchers are actually working on a piece software that will allow us to isolate certain objects in our photographs and apply some wicked 3D manipulations to them. And, as it turns out, they are already doing some really cool photo edits with it.

But, how do they do it? Check out this quick video clip for an inside look of the software at work (spoiler alert: the camera doesn’t actually see the unseen…)[Read More…]

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