Archive for the ‘primary pictures’ Category

• Educational Images

  Date: 2010.01.19 | Category: ICT, images, primary pictures | Response: 0

  
  One of my favourite websites that I’m not directly involved with (although I helped them out a few times) is edupics

  Edupics is basically searchable pictures to use in education.
  Good on the green issue.
  Fast. Easy and really nice people :)

• How to use Open source software to turn a portrait picture into something that resembles a cartoon (with additional alternatives) — (TECHNICAL)

  Date: 2009.06.16 | Category: be funky, be funky alternative, gimp, gmic, ImageMagick, picture, portrait, primary pictures | Response: 0

  Important notes: Not everyone thinks a cartoon looks the same, cartoons come in many different formats and I try to present some options on this page. This is a technical document and not for general purpose consumption.
  ImageMagick++ and GMIC are required. GimpUI is not but Gimp is. Unix is probably required and is recommended.
  What I have tried to do is take a normal picture of a primary school kid and treat it so that it is more appealing to the pupil to put on an object of their personal posession.
  I have released my findings so if anyone else tries to do the same thing they can:
  Simplfied instructions:
  Install GIMP-Devel
  Install Dependancies for ImageMagick++
  Install ImageMagick++
  Install Dependancies for GMIC (take note on ftw3)
  Install GMIC (takes a long time)
  Once GMIC is installed run the commands that I have placed above each example.
  You may wish to process this with PHP or Python or so, that should be very simple to do

  GMIC seems to have much lower overheads than ImageMagick++.

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  GMIC command:
  gmic example.jpg -tetris 50 -o example3.jpg
  
  
  
  
  
  
  GMIC command:
  gmic example.jpg -edges 30 -o example5.jpg
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  GMIC command:

  gmic example.jpg -drawing 30 -o example7.jpg

  GMIC command:

  gmic example.jpg -stencilbw 20 -o example6.jpg

  Yes this looks very weird but if you apply the same effect to the picture of a boy they look like Harry Potter which is pretty cool if your a Primary School kid..

  GMIC command:

  gmic example.jpg -pencilbw 1 -o example8.jpg