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."

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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Monday, December 21, 2009

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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Friday, December 11, 2009

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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Friday, December 4, 2009

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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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Liquid text configuration

Here I use a kind of water text to show some interesting options about Picture to People liquid text generator.

First I show you a water text. So, using the same configurations about font, transparency, liquefying, translucency, colors, etc, I change some other things you have not seen here yet.

Below I used "small drops".

Here I used "big drops".

This one was made with "extra pools".

Below I used "trickling drops".

Of course, you can use any combination of these features if you want.

Make your water text or any other liquid text using Picture to People. It's fast and very easy.

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