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."

Friday, July 30, 2010

Turning photos into text

The new Picture to People tool doesn't work only for simple images. You can even draw your favorite photos with text.

Usually it's a good idea use high contrast pictures. If you need, pre-process your photos before applying the effect. The pre-processing can be made using the Picture to People image editor.

Below I show an example about what the Typographic Photo effect can make.

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Friday, July 23, 2010

Drawing images using text

Since I started releasing Picture to People tools online, people have been asking for a tool to draw pictures with text.

I have finally created this renderer and it's already online. It tries to keep the original image information as much as possible, and there is a configuration parameter to inform if you want prioritize the input image contours or the font rendering.

There are many font faces to choose from and you can draw even complex photos. It's a good idea to use good contrast input images.

Below I show an example of an input image and its drawing made of text.

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

A tool to mix photos and typography

I stopped developing my light library for a while.

I have seen some artworks a couple days ago that inspired me to create a new cool effect. This new one involves photos and typography too.

I'm developing it nowadays and I'm really excited about that. I'm sure this new Picture to People tool will be useful for a lot of people in many situations.

As the programming evolves, I will show here some results and examples.

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Turning photos into light drawings

Have you ever tried the new Picture to People tool? Now you can transform your photos into nice drawings made of light.

This tool have some good configuration level. I have been using that to make neon effects as well.

Below I show you an example concerning what I'm talking about. You can use this tool by yourself in this light effects page of Picture to People site.

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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Drawing lights 2

As promised, here I show some more lights I could already draw.

There are many variables to regard when drawing a good light source and I'm trying to get a versatile software here. It's not an easy subject, is it?

I'm doing a preliminary development yet, but I'm happy I could already show some screenshots.


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Monday, May 10, 2010

Drawing lights

I'm not posting very often. I have been spending a lot of time developing a new library for Picture to People project.

I'm trying to create a library focused on drawing lights. I would like this library could be generic and powerful enough to open new possibilities concerning effects.

In some preliminary tests, I was able to generate some light styles. I show some of them here and I will show the other ones in a next post.




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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Talking about Text Effects

Since I released the new Picture to People Text Generator, people have been asking a lot about text effects.

Now I have a place to talk specially about artistic texts. There I will show, discuss, give examples, tips e suggestions, always concerning easy and smart ways to get great text results. This way, I can let this blog to go back to its origins: post mainly about my new Computer Graphics developments.

By now, this new text effects corner is only showing some examples about what you can have from the new Text Generator with no design skills. It's just to prepare your mood. Soon I will post there many tips and ideas to help you getting awesome texts with very few effort.

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Text Generator examples

This post shows you some examples about what the new Picture to People Text Generator can make.

As I told before, there are more than 150 professional, ready to use text effects. You can choose from more than 100 font faces too.

Like people say, an image is better than 1000 words. The sample images show six different text effects made with six different fonts.

Using the new Picture to People Text Generator, you can get texts like these very easily. No design skills needed.







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Monday, March 8, 2010

A new professional text generator

Finally, after a long hard work, I released the most professional and powerful free text generator ever. It's a very good improvement in Picture to People project.

You have more than 150 high quality, ready to use, text effects. There are so many choices, so for sure you will find an useful configuration to your blog, site, interface, messenger, facebook or whatever.

Many of these texts are very realistic and can not be made easily (few clicks) even using the most expensive desktop graphic programs. You can easily choose the best text effect to fit your needs in the catalog of Picture to People Text Generator.

By the way, I created a new, more beautiful header to use in the official web site using its new tool. The "Picture to People" words were rendered using the forth blue metallic effect.

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Saturday, January 16, 2010

A new powerful Text Generator is coming

After some months of very hard work, the Picture to People graphic libraries were improved and received some new infrastructure it didn't have before. The preliminary tests were very positive and now, using this new low level software, a new text generator is been developed. It's not procedural like the effects you can use in "Text Effects" section.

Until now, you just would be able to make many kinds of artistic texts using the most expensive desktop graphic softwares in the market.This new Picture to People tool should bring to users a big variety of new, last generation, professional text effects. It will be possible use its professional text effects with any True Type font.

Keep following Picture to People project, because this new, powerful, text generation tool will be released in some weeks.

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