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."

Thursday, March 31, 2016

New bevel text logo effects online

Since a small time ago, Picture to People offers hundreds of realistic bevel text effects online. After its release, this bevel text maker application made a big success and become one of the most used P2P text generator tools.

This tool was developed extremely versatile and powerful, because it uses some real 3D algorithms to generate its results. When I transformed this it into an software to be used online, I made many simplifications, so it became easy to use even for non geek and non designer users.

Recently I was seeing some text logos online for inspiration and I found some cool beveled logos. That time I realized that my bevel text maker could make logos like that, but not through the interface I have published online.

So I decided to improve the online bevel text effects by offering very useful new configuration parameters. Below you see a new style of bevel text banner (in this case, a bevel metallic text effect) that can be designed by using the more complete version of Bevel Text Effect Generator applications.


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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Long shadow effect generator online

Since many users requested it, I developed a text effect generator able to design beautiful long shadow logos, banners and headers.

Now you can create amazing long shadow texts with no effort, including the trendy flat long shadow effect. You can even create a logo with shadow only, so you get a "phantom text".

This shadow effect maker is so powerful and customizable that, if you don't choose wisely your configuration parameters, you can turn your long shadow into a regular small shadow.

Below I show you a dense long shadow effect created by using our Long Shadow Effect Text Creator.


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Thursday, March 10, 2016

Faster text logos online

Picture to People site implements a very aggressive cache policy. This means that, if you wait for a page to load completely, it will load much faster next times you use it.

Anyway, I was not satisfied. I want to make P2P as fast as I can, so recently I was looking for a way to speed it up.

After some hard work, I found a way to make all text effect pages faster to load. Now they open faster for the users, so any page you open for the first time (or after a long time) will be ready to use in fewer time. This improvement benefits, for example, our most popular 3D Text Effect maker.

Besides and not less important, this optimization helped to generate less traffic on my web server when one of these pages is requested. This for sure will give some refreshment to our server that already is very overloaded, since we have tens of thousands of his every day and most of our graphic effects are hard to calculate.

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Monday, February 29, 2016

Better text logo generators online for you

Picture to People offers the famous Online Text Effect Generators, the number one answer from google search for "online text effects" in most countries (among other expressions). It's one of our first tools to get notorious in internet.

Despite during these years I have improved some text effects and created many new text logo makers to the collection, the base of this software remained the same.

P2P users already designed millions of text logos by using this application, but recently I could take some time to satisfy a desire of many: I finally changed this software to produce text logos with transparent background, of course sustaining our overall high quality level.

As a plus, now most of these text effects also have a highly configurable shadow and can even have their colors changed to design a different resulting effect. These new features create a complete new plethora of design possibilities, turning this text logo effect application even more useful. The sample below, for example, could not be created like this without these new functionalities.



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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Recent annoying disaster

This post is to inform Picture to People users about the catastrophic events of yesterday.

Unfortunately we are passing through an unplanned outage because of a severe crash on our dedicated server.

We apologize for any inconvenience and would like to say we have a backup and I'm working day and night to restore our online graphic services as soon as possible.

I really hope P2P site will not stay down much longer. Thanks for your understanding.

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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Bevel text effect online

Recently I have published a new text effect generator able to produce realistic bevel effects. By using this bevel text maker, it's possible to create high quality beveled logos in a few seconds.

This bevel text generator application uses a completely new text rendering engine. This algorithm brought fresh new features to the already huge list of P2P text effects, like for example:
- very fast rendering, allowing bigger output sizes;
- easy illumination positioning;
- ability to render "3D correct" beveled surfaces, including smooth bevel surfaces by using a heuristic;
- several rendering styles that emulate different physical surface properties.

That powerful bevel effect maker offers a full plethora of graphic possibilities to design a top beveled logo easily as never before. To create metallic bevel text online, use the Top Metallic Bevel Text Effect Generator for free.

To inspire you to produce your own bevel text effects, below I show an armor text effect I created by using this new graphic software. I have chosen a damaged metallic material and I used a strong rendering style. This way, I could design an interesting logo made of a metal that looks dilapidated but yet very shiny.


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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Stylized transparent text generator online

Picture to People has a tool to create semi-transparent texts in a few seconds. The background is always transparent and the text can be partially transparent if desired. This tool is used thousands of times a day by people that need to create image texts with high quality anti-aliased drawing, even by people who want to add labels to their videos.

I have improved this tool with several cool and advanced features:
- optional text rotation;
- optional text outline;
- outline color configuration;
- outline thickness configuration;
- several complex text layouts and paths.

Since this semi-transparent text maker software is so powerful now, it can be easily used to create very stylized labels or watermarks to be added to images as a post-processing.

Below you see a circular text effect created by using our Transparent Text Generator.


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Friday, January 22, 2016

Turn black dingbats into burning wood logos

Now Picture to People project offers a graphic tool online that can turn black and white icons into logos with flaming wood effect.

To create beautiful wood on fire logos you just need to get a cute black sign in internet (if you don't have yourself yet), so in a few seconds you can transform it in a cool ablaze logo.

Below you can see a black dingbat and a firing wooden logo created from it. Try the Burning Wood Logo Effect Generators by yourself.

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Saturday, January 9, 2016

Text effect tutorials (38)

Have a look at these cool text effect tutorials posted at the How to Create Text Effects blog. Subscribe to see the tutorials more easily.

- a glowing pink light logo text effect;
- a brick wall text logo effect;
- a realistic blue cracked logo text effect.

By following the tutorials above, you can design these cool logo effects (see the logos in original size at the tutorials):





Design top text effect logos easily by using the Best Text Effect Logo Makers.

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Thursday, December 31, 2015

Design cool 3D text logos easily online

Nowadays you don't need to have expensive and hard to learn desktop software to design high quality 3D text effects.

Picture to People offers many top options, and one of them is this 3D Perspective Text Logo Effect Generator. It's easy to use, offers several interesting graphic configuration elements and creates production quality 3D text logos.

You don't need to deal with boring Math concepts neither have to tackle complex interfaces. You just need to set up easy to understand customization items and you design your 3D text logo in a few seconds.

This 3D text effect generator has many cool features like for example:
- big depth sizes;
- easy 3D positioning;
- perspective customization;
- configurable inner shading;
- more than 450 fonts to choose;
- anti-aliased rendering;
- optional transparent background (as transparent PNG files).

Next you can see a 3D text effect that shows what this professional 3D Text Effect Maker can generate. Since these 3D logos can have transparent background, they are useful to any graphic design or layered composition.


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