Archive for the ‘Graphics’ Category

Amazing Simplistic Online Sketch Pad

Posted by rajivvishwa On September - 21 - 2009

Odosketch is an online sketchpad and does not have too many things which clutters your work area. But you have enough to create a mindblowing work of art.

Odosketch a4apphack Sample

Using Odosketch cant be easier. Just select the crayon type and color you want and start sketching. Once done, it can be saved and shared with other odosketch artists. The saved sketch can be retrieved from our profile later on for further enhancement.

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Seam Carving – Intelligent Image Resizing Algorithm

Posted by rajivvishwa On April - 13 - 2009

SeamCarve Technique

Seam carving is an image resizing algorithm developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. This algorithm alters the dimensions of an image not by scaling or cropping, but rather by intelligently removing pixels from (or adding pixels to) the image that carry little importance.

The importance of a pixel is generally measured by its contrast when compared with its neighbor pixels, but other measures may be used. Additionally, it’s possible to define (or autodetect) areas of high importance (faces, buildings, etc.) in which pixels may not be deleted, and conversely, areas of zero importance which should be removed first. From this information, the algorithm detects seams (continuous lines of pixels joining opposite edges of the image) which have the lowest importance, and deletes those. This shrinks the image by one horizontal or vertical line, depending on which direction the seam ran.

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Seam carving can also be run in reverse by adding interpolated pixels along the lowest energy seam.

With this technique, it’s now possible to reduce or enlarge pictures by a wide range, while still retaining details. In normal image scaling, it’s often not possible to scale about factor greater than 2 or less than 0.5, without losing much of the images quality.

More Info : SeamCarving

Check out SeamCarving plugin for GIMP (Examples here)

Create and Publish 3D Movies Online for Free

Posted by rajivvishwa On March - 29 - 2009

Ideally, for creating 3d animated videos one would need an expensive 3d modelling tool and of course knowledge on writing scripts. This might be a laborius process which requires skill and practice which stops from a normal man to create one. But times change, and we have an online 3d animation creator which can be used to create and publish our movies in matter of seconds.

Xtranormal is an online application which turns your imagination to life. Creating animations with Xtranormal is very easy and can be accompolished in four simple steps.

  1. Pick your scene (Backgrounds, Music, Actor Skin etc)
  2. Type the script (Not the ‘scripts’ in programming terms, here we mean dialogues)
  3. Add actions and sounds (Just drag-n-drop)
  4. Publish & Share ( In video sharing sites like YouTube or in Xtranormal catalog)

Xtranormal Editor

Xtranormal Editor

Sample Video

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Check out more videos at Xtranormal YouTube Channel & Video Catlog

Publishing Video to Youtube

Once you create your animations, it can be easily published in YouTube easily.

Check these videos to understand more…

Xtranormal Version

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Video Version

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Optimize And Compress Your Images With a Portable Tool

Posted by rajivvishwa On March - 13 - 2009

Optimizing images would always be a tedious task if you are not utilizing a good image processing tool. Certain resizing tools promise that the output images to be optimized, but what they really do is to reduce the clarity of the image and hence its size. But there are certain tools like RIOT, which goes into depths of resampling to perform the actual image optimization.

Riot Main

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Extreme Photoshop Makeover

Posted by rajivvishwa On February - 20 - 2009

How powerful can Photoshop be with Photo Manipulations? Check this quick time lapse video

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Before and after retouching….

Realistic Screen Capture Effect With Gimp In 10 Steps

Posted by rajivvishwa On February - 18 - 2009

Gimp is an amazing photo editor with loads of features which can be explored to create stunning effects. This tutorial helps in creating realistic ‘screen shot’, with a digital camera like effect, with Gimp. The images created with this technique can be used in blog posts and other articles which will definitely attract the readers.

Note: This post is moved from my site previous site http://31nst31n-in-me.com (decommissioned now) hence the screenshots are also taken from that site.

From this…

Initial image

To this…

Final Screen Capture


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Search and Download Icons

Posted by rajivvishwa On December - 15 - 2008

If you feel bored with the default icons set which comes with your application or if you use any dock apps like rocket/object docks, and want to match all the icons with your theme set, search for icons online with various sites mentioned in this post.These icon search engines provide free download of icons in various formats.
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5 Websites to find color codes online

Posted by rajivvishwa On December - 13 - 2008

If you need the color code corresponding to any color you don’t need to have any color picking software installed in your PC. You can use online color pickers to get the color codes in HEX and other formats so that it can be used in our templates/CSS, HTML and anywhere the color code equivalent is required to be entered.
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