Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Do you want to draw astounding images?  But doesn't have the time or patience to do it?!
Here's a solution!
A program that turns your doodles into images!
Yup!  From doodles to real-life images!!!
Now, you can do it in a shorter time, and the results are great images with minimum work! 
{This post is not about 'my drawings'}

Here's an article
by Chris Maginnis

Amazing photoshop images created from MSpaint doodles. Yes, you heard me.

Ever wanted to photoshop together a great looking picture but the best you can manage is some wavy lines on MSpaint?
Don’t worry, there’s no longer a difference.

Photosketch is an internet based program created by five computer science and technology students.
The program has generated so much interest that the surge of traffic has actually made their website unavailable.

The basic premise is, you draw the vague outlines and label them and let the program do all the work.
It replaces your doodles with real life images, from the internet, and claims to be able to select the best image to fit.
The result is an astounding looking photoshop with minimum work.

I can barely manage a stick man in MSpaint but this would let me create a stunning photoshop.
Theres no way to know if the results will match up to the hype but if the examples shown ar, in fact,
fair examples then this may revolutionise the way people use photoshop.



Hats off to the creators, I’ll be buying my copy when their website comes back online.

The full documentation is available here.

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Here's another article from http://www.makli.com

PhotoSketch, is a software developed by Brainstorm Technology LLC.
PhotoSketch offers the combined benefits of Photogrammetry and Google Sketchup.
With tones of data that “Google Earth” or “Micrososft Visual Earth” has to offer,
an application is needed to create 3D overview of the scenes, to give a realistic or more human touch to them.
Traditionally available are two approaches to achieve the effect. One is Laser Range Scanners.
The out received from the approach is too heavy to be merged with web based applications.
The second approach “Photogrammetry” solves this problem but requires much manual work.


PhotoSketch is developed as Google Sketchup plug-in.
The software generates web worthy 3D models appropriate for merging in web based applications and streaming.

For example, there is a building at specific location.
In order to create a 3D photograph of the building to be merged with Google Earth, user needs to have various images of the object.
PhotoSketch features calibrate the images to generate a 3D view. The view can easily bed projected on Google earth or Microsoft Virtual Earth.

The virtue of PhotoSketch does not stop here. The software also offers an innovative approach to create the pictures;
the user has in his mind starting from scratch. To elaborate, the user draws a rough sketch of a scene; all he needs to do is to label the objects.
Software would automatically find the images matching the label of the objects. Once the images are there,
user can pick the best one to complete the picture he has in his mind.

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