Text effects tutorials (8)

Here it's the digest of the effect tutorials that were published in the previous month at the Text Effect Tutorials blog. Click the name in the list to open the tutorial.

- a Halloween text effect;
- a broken glass text effect;
- a holed mercury text effect;
- a jelly text effect;

That's the images created by following the taught steps:

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Rendering engine with professional anti-aliasing

Picture to People already had one of the most professional 2D vector based rendering engines in the market. This engine is part of my Maccala library and it has proved to be very fast, precise and reliable these last years, because it was successfully used to create most text and photo effects P2P already offers.

Anyway, recently I have discovered a small bug that only happened in very special conditions related to clipping operations. By the way, it's worthy to know that all vector based drawing operations are "clipping aware" or, in other words, shapes are drawn naturally clipped.

This problem was very subtle and affected just the bound pixels close to the clipping frame. In specific conditions, the ingenious (integer based) calculations of the renderer could need to deal with unexpected negative values, generating wrong results.

Below you can see a wrong rendering (left side) and a correct one (right side). The blue squares represent the clipping windows and the small red squares highlighted the region that failed in the left drawing.

Here I show the small regions increased 10 times in size, so you can see clearly the wrong pixels and how they were fixed in right side image.

Now my 2D anti-aliased drawing algorithm is even more precise, and it's not all. Seizing the opportunity and the knowledge I acquired these last years, I have improved the algorithm speed even more. After these recent optimizations, the drawing operations are kind of 17% faster for most cases.

P2P keeps its commitment to offer the most professional softwares, so you can generate more and more outstanding results.

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Graphic effect of chalkboard writing

After requests of several users in last years, finally I'm trying to develop a renderer able to create chalk text effects. I hope this new tool will be powerful, so the user will be able to get realistic results.

My intention is to create a versatile software that offers several chalk rendering styles and a good set of font faces. Let's see if I can make it as good as I would like.

The program is in alpha stage, but it's already partially functional. Below I show an example about the kind of result you can generate when the software is published.

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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:

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Turn photos into realistic colorful pencil drawings

I have released a new free online software to create realistic pencil drawing photo effects.

 This new software is more powerful than the previous ones. Among its great features are:
- creates realistic drawings like made by human artists;
- high fidelity with the original images, even the detailed ones;
- has great configuration level, so you can simulate several drawing styles and media types;
- offers several ways to improve the input image for best results;
- has several beautiful stroke styles;
- offers nice control over outline drawing;
- offers fine grain selection for output colors.

Below you see a sample of the amazing colorful pencil drawings you can generate using this free online graphic software:

Use it at the Realistic Colorful Drawing Photo Effect page.

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Picture to People development status

There are many P2P sub-projects being developed or designed.

The list of new tools being developed (short and medium term):
- A new and more realistic colorful drawing effect for photos;
- New generators for the "Professional Text Effects";
- A graffiti photo effect;
- A new and more powerful software to draw photos using text.

The list of new softwares being planned and researched (long term):
- A new super realistic 3D text generator;
- An online logo (image + text) maker;
- A professional fire text renderer.

 These are the likely releases for the rest of 2012 and 2013.

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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:

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New online realistic 3D text effects

Several themes of the Professional Text Effects received new text effects. There are 30 new realistic 3D text effects recently published.

Among the themes with new text generators are:
- Grunge Text Effects;
- Cracked Text Effects;
- Glass Text Effects;
- Paper Text Effects;
- Concrete Text Effects;
- Stone Text Effects;
- Metallic Text Effects.

Below you see two samples of these new online professional text effects (a grunge text and a stone text).

See all available themes at the main page of these Online Realistic Text Effects.

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Realist 3D plastic text effects

I have released a new theme (subject to group related effect creators) in the Professional Text Effects tool. It already had 3 themes in the Special Material set: fabric, glass and paper. Now there is one more: plastic.

Using these new 3D text generators you can create amazingly realistic plastic text effects. There are more than 20 styles, so for sure you will find something useful for your needs. There even are some Lego text effects.

Below you see an example of what you can create by using P2P Professional Plastic Text Effects:

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Text effects tutorials (5)

Here there is a digest about the text effect tutorials I have published last month at the Text Effect Tutorials blog. Clicking the name in the list you go directly to the related tutorial that shows how to generate the text:

- a supernatural text effect;
- a nice steel text effect;
- a cracked 3D text effect;
- a text made of water pools;

Using the text generators as the tutorials teach, you get these great graphic texts:

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