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Re: New mosaic: Portrait of 3 boys
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lugnet.build.mosaic
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Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:44:37 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mosaic, Sean Kenney wrote:
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Well, since I have a background as a graphic artist, I actually use Photoshop
to mess with the color balance, brightness, & contrast, as well as to reduce
the color count and fine-tune the diffusion. I then make each color a
Photoshop “layer” that I can toggle on & off independently from the others
(or make semi transparent) as I work.
This works for studs-out mosaics, since a square pixel equates to the square
top of a LEGO 1x1. The newer version of Photoshop (CS) supports “non square
pixels”, which means you could use this same technique for studs-up mosaics.
(I don’t have CS yet, although this one feature would make it worth the
upgrade.) :)
Sean
http://www.mocpages.com/home.php/1
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I can’t toggle colour layers on & off (I don’t really need that), but I’m sure
you can do the same thing for studs-up mosaics. You may have noticed my unglued,
studs-up, one-stud-wide Level 42 mosaic.
As I am not a real programmer I have to do a few manual
steps:
1) I resize the picture I want to use (width 200% - height 500%) and
then bring it to the size I want (e.g. 100 studs wide).
2) I run this picture
through my program (this stretched image may seem weird at first, but the final
results are good).
3) I resize the result of my program (width 500% - height
200%) - don’t use “smartsizing” (to keep your colours).
Every 1x1 plate is now
represented by 10 pixels (5Wx2H), so if you do some sort of automatic piececount
(“pixelcount”) you only have to devide the results by 10. You don’t need to
upgrade your program (more money left to buy more LEGO ;-)).
Maarten
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| (...) Well, since I have a background as a graphic artist, I actually use Photoshop to mess with the color balance, brightness, & contrast, as well as to reduce the color count and fine-tune the diffusion. I then make each color a Photoshop "layer" (...) (20 years ago, 14-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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