Friday 9 September 2005

Invicti Iunores Brittaniciani




Invicti Iunores Brittaniciani


Invicti Iunores Brittaniciani,
originally uploaded by robartesm.


Just an experiment with photo editing tools: I took a photo I had lying around of a unit of my Post Roman Britains and photoshopped (I actually used The Gimp) a forest background behind it.


What do you think?

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8 comments:

  1. in one word: AWESOME !!

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  2. Bart- very nice. Which version of photoshop did you use? My daughter is going to let me borrow her version 7 for a trial run since I want to document my Macedonians.
    Cheers
    Graham

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  3. Hi Graham,
    I actually used The Gimp, a free open source photo and image editing program, available from [their website](http://www.gimp.org). I used 'photoshopped' as the verb, as that seems to be the preferred neologism for 'changed beyond all recognition in an image editing program'.

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  4. I sure as hell wouldn't like to be the lone Saxon that happens to run into that lot. brrr :)

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  5. Ah yes, but the problem is that Saxons tend to come by the boatload not alone :)

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  6. Good work!
    Although, as a computer graphics researcher I have to say the lighting and illumination is inconsistent between the figures and the backgrounds. ;-) ;-)
    Look here to see some of the consistent lighting algorithms my group has developed, applied to 54mm toy soldiers:
    [http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~graphics/CGRG.PUBLICATIONS/FFLS/soldiers.html](http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~graphics/CGRG.PUBLICATIONS/FFLS/soldiers.html)
    Phil

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  7. Although, as a computer graphics researcher I have to say the lighting and illumination is inconsistent between the figures and the backgrounds. ;-) ;-)

    I know. In fact, it was even worse initially. The figures were photographed with the major light source of to the left of them. I had to tone down the value of the colours in the left hand side of the figure image quite a bit to even get to this result.
    Now, can your algorithm relight this particular photo to a more consistent lighting? Perhaps a good subject for a grad student's thesis :)

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