What is Picture to People ?

"Picture to People" (P2P) is a huge Computer Graphics project. It was started to create new softwares able to make 2D drawing, 3D rendering, vexel drawing, text effects, photo effects, image filtering and other complex Computer Graphics operations. It has been made from scratch, including its low level Computer Graphics libraries like Maccala. Nowadays, most final features produced for this project are released as free online tools available from its official website. This blog talks about Computer Graphics, mainly concerning Picture to People development.

"Only who makes has true knowledge. Knowledge is control. True power depends on total control. Only who makes from scratch has the real power."

Showing posts with label light rendering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label light rendering. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Neon light photo effect creator online

Despite P2P already had some cool light photo effects including the Rainbow Neon Light Photo Effect, I created a more complex, delicate and detailed one. It's online and ready to use.

This photo light effect is easier to use and can preserve better the original colors and shapes from input image.

By using this new Neon Light Photo Effect Editor you can create beautiful shiny light drawings from your portraits and landscapes. It was really hard to create an algorithm able to produce a good balance between the source preservation and the light glow, but I think the result was worthy.

Below you can see a photo from a wolf and a cool glow photo effect designed by using that light effect app.



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Thursday, January 29, 2015

LED text effect generator online

I have published at Picture to People site a logo maker that is able to design cool LED text logos online. It's very simple to use, so you can create a nice LED text message in a few seconds.

This LED generator offers a huge number of font faces as usual for P2P graphic apps, and you have control of LED color and size. This helps you to create LED plates with different bright levels and styles.

Below you can see a LED text created by using this glowing Led Text Logo Generator. Click the image to see that LED logo effect in real size.


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Saturday, December 6, 2014

Realistic 3D Christmas text generator online

I have published a set of Christmas text generators that can design top Christmas effects. They are at the Christmas Text Logo Generators app page.

This online graphic software has interesting features like for example:
- more than 450 font faces to use;
- anti-aliased rendering;
- realistic 3D results;
- control of inner light color;
- control of outer light color;
- optional transparent background (as semi-transparent PNG image files).

In this December, create your own realistic 3D Christmas logo designs like this one show below (click the text effect image to see it in real size).



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Saturday, September 27, 2014

Create rainbow neon light effects from photos

I have just released a new tool at Picture to People site. It's a fresh photo editor that was requested by some P2P users.

Now you can turn your portraits and landscapes into beautiful colorful light drawings. The rainbow light effects this photo editor can create are exclusive. They were researched for P2P and can't be found in any other graphic software.

By using this tool you have great control over the rainbow colors and disposition. Besides, you have several light spread styles to select.

Below you can see a neon drawing effect created by using our Rainbow Neon Light Effect Photo Editor available online.


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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Make beautiful logos and icons with cool effects

Now Picture to People project offers a tool that was very requested by users last year: a software pack able to render effects for logos.

The idea is simple and easy: you upload a black and white image that represents the "stencil" of your logo. P2P software interprets this input and renders the effect of your choice.

I hope this new class of online softwares helps many people to get more visual appealing logos, icons symbols or whatever they need in an simple, easy and fast way.

Bellow you see some examples of these new tools in action (the first image is the input black and white stencil). You can see the complete list of logo effects at the Online Logo Editors page.



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Saturday, June 29, 2013

An easy way to draw lighting bolts

Recently I was programming some stuff by using Maccala and some other P2P libraries. They are here to make Computer Graphics as easy as possible.

There was a moment when I needed to draw a vector lighting bolt symbol. What a boring task !!! It's harder than we imagine at a first sight. Twenty minutes after beginning this job, it was clear to me: I really wanted an easy way to make that kind of drawings we use to represent bolts.

I spent some time, but I created a method to generate any kind of lighting bolt. I made it so configurable as I could imagine, what turned the mission into something more complicated.

Maybe it doesn't look very interesting for you, but, from now on, I can save my fingers every time I need to render something like the drawings you see below. I prefer to work hard once, so I can be lazy many other times. :)



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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Glow neon text effect generator online

I have just released the newest P2P software. It's a text generator able to create very nice colorful light text effects and it's called Rainbow Neon Text Effect Creator.

By using this online text creator, you can generate beautiful texts of neon, light, glow and other styles related to this theme. This new free glow text effect maker has great features, like for example:

- advanced control over the colors. It's possible to use several kinds of color combinations and gradients;
- several light styles to render text;
- default color configuration to generate effects with a rainbow look;
- optional transparent background (read the tips at the generator's page).

Below you see a colorful neon text effect created with this software (click to enlarge). It was made by using the rainbow colors in a horizontal orientation.


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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Realistic 3D silver text effects online

I have released a new theme for the Professional Text Effects software. Now the Metal Text Effects group has silver text effects.

There are several silver rendering styles, so you can generate many realistic texts. Don't forget to read the tips in the effect page if you are not used to work with Picture to People softwares.

Below you see an example of silver text effect created by using this new free online text effect maker.



Choose the silver effect you prefer at the Silver Text Effects page. Don't forget that, as with the other professional text effects, you can generate an image with a transparent background.

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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Text effects tutorials (7)

It's the summary of the text effects published last month at the Text Effect Tutorials blog. You can go to the exact tutorial by clicking the name in the list.

- a bubble text effect;
- a stainless steel text effect;
- a speed text effect;
- a chocolate bar text effect;

Below you see the results related to these text effects:





If you want to try new text effects tips as soon they are posted, follow this address totally dedicated to Text Effect Tutorials.

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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Text effects tutorials (6)

It's the list of the texts I taught how to create last month at the Text Effect Tutorials blog. Clicking the name in the list you go directly to the related tutorial. Just follow the easy steps to create the effect by yourself.

- a realistic raw wood text effect;
- a flying 3D golden text effect;
- a realistic acrylic text effect;
- a cosmic light text effect;

Making as told in the above tutorials, you get these nice fresh text effects:





If you want to know about new text effect tutorial as soon they are posted, follow the Text Effect Tutorials blog.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Creating professional light text effects

After a long and very hard work, I finally released Picture to People newest online tool: it's an astonishing powerful set of renderers focused on drawing light text effects.

I have been talking about this for a long time, but my first light drawing software was not as general as I would like and had low performance. This last undesired property made it unsuitable to be used online.

Since kind of a year ago, I started making new researches to be able to redevelop my light drawing engine. This work was very worthy, so I got a much more powerful and faster model. This way, I was able to develop a big list of light rendereres and I used them to make available more than 170 light text effects.

This new feature has a catalog page, just like our general text
generator. It's called Light Text Catalog. Since most of these effects are hard to be really understood in a very small example (like just a letter "a"), this new catalog have better examples. I'm sure they will be useful to all users.

I hope soon I can post some light effect tuturials that use this new exciting software at our blob about text effects. The world of light text effects will never be the same again.

Below there are two new samples of what you can get very easily by using this new astonishing online graphic tool.



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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The best light text effects ever

If you are used to create some pictures by using your computer, probably you know that creating light effects usually is not a very easy task, mainly if you try to get something really beautiful or innovative.

I'm finishing the development of a new tool totally focused on creating amazing light text effects. As usual for Picture to People softwares, you will not need to have design skill to generate great results with no effort.

After the big success of our generic text effects renderer, this new tool will take our project even more ahead of competitors. We are best and biggest online provider of professional text effects.

Below I show you two teaser images about what is coming, hopefully this year yet. Click a image for a full size viewing.



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Saturday, June 4, 2011

Professional light text effects

I have been studying and implementing light models and algorithms for at least 3 years. I have developed, more than a year ago, a library to render light effects. I have even created some light text effects, but I didn't publish them, because they were very slow to calculate.

These last months I made a huge effort trying to create from scratch a new fast library focused on rendering lights. I finally did it and this new library is not just faster, but better than the old one. Now I'm developing a big collection of ready to use light text effects. Many users have asked for it since Picture to People is online.

Below I show you some examples about what is up to come: professional results with no configuration.



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