Monday, February 16, 2015

FotoSketcher 3.00 early preview *** updated ***

Dear all,

If you like to be at the bleeding edge, here is an early alpha version of FotoSketcher 3.00, with a brand new painting effect: http://www.fotosketcher.com/FotoSketcher_3.00_alpha3.exe

The new effect Painting 10 (brushstrokes) is functional and nearly finalized. I have not had time to integrate it in the script engine or the manual brush* yet, but if you only use it from the main drawing screen, you should be fine.

Here is an example of the effect:


Have fun :-)

Best regards,

David

* as of 02/22 the manual brush is now functional with Painting 10
* as of 02/23 the code for Painting 10 has been optimized (33% faster) - still a bit slow ;-)

New example:
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13 comments:

  1. CaseyFebruary 17, 2015 at 1:17 AM

    That's an impressive piece of work there.
    I like the way you've done it - it looks like you're creating brushes on-the-fly from the image then painting with them.

    Bug report, maybe:

    Luminosity doesn't seem to do anything - is it connected up or maybe it's too limited in range?

    Edit - tested saturation too - it doesn't change the picture from 0 to 255 (the strokes change between pictures, but luminosity an sat are the same).

    Either they're not connected up to work yet or their range is too small.

    ☻

    A tester for you:

    http://i.imgbox.com/WMhlTddO.jpg

    I DO like the way you've handled the flat areas - that sky looks great!

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2015 at 12:20 PM

    Any plans for a 64Bit Version? I recently tried to Sketch a 2x3 Meter Picture and quickly reached a point where FotoSketcher was just crashing all over the place. Then i manually enabled Support for more Ram-Usage (< 2GB) in the Exe-File (just for testing purposes) and it worked almost fine ... still some crashes here and there. Hope this will be added soon, i like Fotosketcher alot. Greetings

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  3. DavidFebruary 17, 2015 at 3:45 PM

    -> Casey:
    Thanks for your feedback. Luminosity and saturation are not activated yet, but will be soon. As for your example, that must have taken a long time to render! I'll see if I can optimize my code a bit further :)
    -> Anonymous:
    I should be able to compile a 64bit version. I don't know if it will help with larger images, but it might be worth a try.

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  4. CaseyFebruary 19, 2015 at 12:32 AM

    (yeah.. quite a Looooooooooong time to render)

    *GRINS*

    *Runs away, giggling*

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  5. DavidFebruary 21, 2015 at 9:43 PM

    LOL!
    I've actually managed to make it even slower...

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 21, 2015 at 10:45 PM

    That is beautiful - I'm in awe of what you achieve - thank you for making it available to others

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  7. CaseyFebruary 21, 2015 at 11:16 PM

    Hahahaha!!

    I wish I could meet you and shake your hand there!

    I love it when life does that to you. It's like wiping the windows clean with that forgotten oily rag..

    As an aside:

    With some version post 3.xx, is there any chance of having a blend mode, a la "layers".

    Like this:

    - Do work (say, Painting 1)
    - F12 to swap sides
    - Do different work (maybe Painting 7)- now left is work 1, right is work 2

    - Blend left and right with overlay/softlight, hard light, screen, etc.

    Like Photoshop does, but without the more useless effects like negative and pin light, etc..
    (I know you already have a blending system, but overlay/screen/softlight/hardlight are very useful).

    I refer you to LazPaint 62 - a free photo editor with layer support and layer blend modes.. maybe you could use that library?

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  8. UnknownFebruary 22, 2015 at 3:37 AM

    Hi David,
    Tried the new painting effect on a portrait image. It hangs after 4%. Using Win 7 x64.
    Keep up the great work.
    Kempton

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  9. DavidFebruary 22, 2015 at 11:58 AM

    -> Anonymous: Thank you :-)
    -> Casey: I was not familiar with overlay/softlight, hard light or screen blending but will look into it.
    -> Kempton: The new effect is very processor intensive, so maybe you could try with a smaller image and see if it works. I'm currently looking at ways to optimize the algorithm.

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  10. UnknownFebruary 24, 2015 at 1:05 AM

    Hi David,

    Yes, a much smaller picture works OK.

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  11. DavidFebruary 24, 2015 at 11:40 AM

    That's good news, thank you for your feedback.

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  12. CaseyFebruary 24, 2015 at 10:19 PM

    Re: Alpha 3

    I see that you've changed some of the controls there - nice to see a "strength" slider.

    I notice something - one pass gives good results.. but a second pass (F12 to swap the images then run again with smaller brush and more iterations) removes all the thick wide strokes and gives it a definite "old masters" look.

    Refer here:

    One pass:
    http://i.imgbox.com/fdMLIbAI.jpg

    Still a great image. Note the semi-water strokes in the left hand bushes.

    Two pass:
    http://i.imgbox.com/38eubNGL.jpg

    Note the smaller strokes with more random (yet still following the image "feel") strokes to cover the fatter previous strokes.

    It looks almost Impasto now... with a touch of Renoir.

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  13. DavidFebruary 25, 2015 at 6:38 PM

    Nice example, Casey! May I say that I'm rather pleased with the way this new effect turned out ;-) Not perfect, of course but quite artistic on some images. A stable release candidate is almost ready and I will post in the next couple of days.

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