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March 14, 2004 |
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Making a logo fit a rough surface
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DISTORTION EFFECTS
Placing a logo on an irregular surface with displacement maps
By David Gewirtz
In the past two weeks, we discussed how you can overcome various kinds of lens distortion, both using a powerful add-on filter as well as some of Photoshop's built-in tools. This week, we're going to do something different: we're going to purposely distort one image to make it fit on another.
Our goal is simple: we want to put the Connected Photographer logo on a jacket, making it look like it was silk screened onto the jacket originally. This technique, which makes use of a technique called displacement maps, is ideal for any situation where you want an image to conform to an irregular surface.
As a first step, let's start off with our irregular surface, in this case the jacket shown in Figure A.
FIGURE A
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We want to put our logo on the surface of this jacket. Click picture for a larger image.
We pulled this particular image out of our clip art collection because it provided a relatively large, single-color surface to work from. Although doable, it would have been far less likely that we'd want to put our logo over a cloth surface that was highly patterned.
Once you've chosen your destination image, you'll want to create a map from that image. What's going to happen is that we're going to create a file that, based on the darkness of an area of the image, will displace another image. This is actually far harder to explain than to tell you what to do, so I'm going to do exactly that.
Tap your mouse here to see how you can make this technique work.
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CONNECTED PHOTOGRAPHER NEWS CENTER
This week's news
Want to get the very latest photography news? The Connected Photographer News Center is updated every day with news of product releases, industry info, tips, techniques, and pointers to great photography resources on the Web. Here's this week's news:
D70 to ship March 18
Nikon will begin shipping D70 camera bodies and kits to US dealers on March 18th. Dealers in Canada will have D70 kits by the end of the month. This release on Rob Galbraith's site has complete information.
Konica Minolta DiMAGE A2
Steve's Digicams has posted this review of the new Konica Minolta DiMAGE A2. The DiMAGE A2 has an 8-megapixel CCD, f/2.8 7x optical zoom lens with manual zoom and focus rings, and Anti-shake function for still images.
Fujifilm seminars and Envisage program
Fujifilm has announced their next two photography seminars planned as part of Fujifilm Professional's School of Photography and the Envisage program for 2004. This page on ePHOTOzine contains complete details of the seminars.
Photography Awards 2004
The winners of the Photography Awards 2004 will be announced at a gala event on March 22nd at Sadlers Wells and will be followed by an exhibition of all the winning images at AOP's Gallery from March 24th–May 5th. This year, the awards will also see the introduction of two new categories, the AOP Bursary (only open to AOP members) a £15,000 award for a special photographic project; and the AOP Zeitgeist which recognizes outstanding photography in the fields of advertising, design and editorial.
ACDSee updated to v6.03
ACDSee has been updated to v6.03. The update contains speed improvements such as faster start up, quicker browsing and viewing, and accelerated database information retrieval.
Konica Minolta rugged digicam
Konica Minolta has announced the DG-4W, a new three megapixel digital camera with a 3x optical zoom lens that ranges from a wide 28mm to 85mm, that is targeted at the construction and engineering fields.
Epson R-D1
Digital Photography Review takes a look at the Epson R-D1 digital rangefinder camera that was previewed at the PMA show this year. The R-D1 supports Leica M mount and L mount with an adapter and has a six megapixel APS size sensor with an output image size of 3008 x 2000 pixels.
Photo Mechanic 4 for Mac
Photo Mechanic 4 for Macintosh is a new version of the photo browser for professional photographers that has been completely revamped to take advantage of the strengths of Apple Computer's latest OS X operating system.
Optipix 2.0.1 released
Reindeer Graphics has released Optipix 2.0.1, the latest revision to the suite of tools for digital photographers is free to all users of Optipix 2 and provides performance improvements and reduced memory usage. Reindeer Graphics is also giving a 10% discount on Optipix 2, available for $134.95 from the Reindeer Graphics' webstore until April 15th.
Digital Photography Guide
Sybex has announced a new book entitled Mastering Digital Photography & Imaging. This full-color 270 page book is intended for digital photo enthusiasts and covers all the essentials, from selecting the right digital camera, scanner, hardware, software, and printer, to optimizing image creation.
PortablePhotos.net
PortablePhotos.net is a new online photo hosting site. For $3.99/month you get 100 MB of online space to securely store photos.
Action April Competition
The theme for ePHOTOzine's monthly photo contest for April will be Action Photography. They would like to see a picture that depicts movement, be it sport, salmon leaping, children playing, transport or machinery.
Photographica 2004
Camera collectors from all over the UK and around the world will be descending on London on Sunday May 9 for Photographica 2004. This year, Photographica will have more than 200 tables for buying, selling and swapping classic and antique cameras.
Muhammad Ali photographs exhibited
The Neil Leifer archive of Muhammad Ali photographs is to be exhibited for the first time in Europe in a tribute to one of the world's most popular icons. The exhibit is to take place at London's Proud Galleries.
Kodak sues Sony
Eastman Kodak has filed suit against Sony, alleging that the consumer electronics company infringed 10 of Kodak's patents related to digital photography. In a suit filed in a New York Federal Court, Kodak alleged that Sony's products use technology invented by Kodak, including an electronic camera utilizing image compression and digital storage.
Simple Sharpening
Digital Outback has announced a simple new sharpening plugin. This plugin by Kevin Dobson will be exclusively sold at Digital Outback Photo.
Leica Digilux 2
Sean Reid of Luminous Landscape offers the first of a three-part review of the new Leica Digilux 2.
Digital photography workshop
Sports and portrait photographer, and member of Canon's Explorers of Light program, Peter Read Miller, will lead a four-day, digital photography workshop, titled "Intense Moments: Photographing Sports." The workshop, which will be held from April 21st through April 25th at various locations in and around Denver, is geared toward amateur and working photographers looking to sharpen their skill set while learning how to photograph sporting events on location, download and organize images, and augment their portfolios.
Kodak to acquire NexPress, Heidelberg Digital
Eastman Kodak Company announced that it has agreed to acquire two lines of business from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, the world's largest maker of offset printing machines. Kodak will purchase Heidelberg's 50 percent interest in NexPress Solutions L.L.C., a 50/50 joint venture of Kodak and Heidelberg that makes digital color printing systems, and the equity of Heidelberg Digital L.L.C., a leading maker of digital black-and-white printing systems.
ArcSoft Media Card companion software
ArcSoft announced ArcSoft Media Card Companion, a Windows application that automates the tasks associated with downloading files and sharing photos from digital cameras, card readers and other removable media.
Flash Memory Watch
LaCie announced that it has begun shipping its flash memory storage device, the LaCie Data Watch. This watch features a black designer wristband and allows for true portability, so users can safely transport up to 128 MB of information from one location to another.
Pentax Watertight Optio43WR
Pentax has announced its second generation fully-immersible digital camera, the Optio43WR. Featuring a 4.0 megapixel CCD, 2.8X zoom lens, and a JIS Class 7 waterproof rating that keeps the Optio43WR watertight even when the camera is rinsed, splashed or submersed in water up to three feet.
Color images from negatives
Our editor-in-chief, David Gewirtz, passed this site along to me and I felt the content warranted publishing as a news item. This site covers the work of turn-of-the-century (1900) Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer to the Romanoff Tsarist regime. This particular page discusses how his images have been colorized using digital techniques.
Image Rescue 2.0 update
Lexar Media has posted a free updater for Image Rescue that enables users of v1.x of the image recovery and card maintenance software to update to v2.0.
Breeze PSRemote supports new Powershots
Breeze Systems announced that Breeze PSRemote Version 1.2 software supports Canon’s new PowerShot Pro1 camera, as well as the PowerShot A75, S500, S410 and SD110 announced by Canon.
50 years of Tri-X
TRI-X Film has achieved iconic status in the photographic industry crossing boundaries of all applications and types of photographers, commercial, nature, fine art, portraiture, editorial students, and remains Kodak's largest-selling black-and-white film after 50 years.
Latest Fujifilm marketing initiative
FujiFilm has designed a campaign to help photographers break into the commercial market. The new initiative, Fujifilm for Business provides photographers with an attractive brochure for them to distribute to companies in their local area.
Rollei introduces the Retro MiniDigi
Rollei is showing a digital version of their classic 1929 Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex at PhotoExpo 2004 in Japan. The Rollei MiniDigi has a 2 megapixel CCD, a 9mm F2.8 fixed lens and uses SD card for storage.
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