Innovative carving effect

I was tired of the same old carving effects based on some variation of directional Laplacian, so I created a much more complex and realistic one. I called it "Photo Stone".

Some of its main features:

- suitable to photos;

- tries to be realistic without to be to much destructive concerning spacial information;

- tries to keep the original colors as much as possible.

You can make a comparison with the more traditional carving effects going to Picture to People Photo Effects and choosing "carved" in left side menu.

Below you can see a photo and a carved example. You can use this tool by yourself in Picture to People carving effect generator.

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Vector drawing library

I lot of people ask me how I make Picture to People. Well, I develop P2P by using my own graphic libraries I create from scratch.

One of my newest libraries is Maccala, a vector based rendering library with professional anti-aliasing e many advanced features. I have been developing it intensively for the last 2 years.

Having this library in hand, I could develop even more advanced features like my own font rendering engine.

If you are a software developer or are just curious, you could like to visit the page about Picture to People vector based drawing library. This URL has many interesting sample images.

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Liquid text: a realistic example

Now you have a good ideia about what the "Liquid Text" tool can make, I show you a complete and realistic example.

It's a water text created over a photo. Usually you can get a nice, eye catching result when drawing over a photo if you enforce the 3D properties of your liquid text. If you draw over a simple, plain color background, probably you should use a different configuration.

Despite water text is the one people usually use most, you can get many other kinds of liqui text using this Picture to People text generator tool.

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