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Picture to People Blog

Here you get informations, tips, tricks and all kind of informal news about Picture to People project researches, developments, evolutions, tools and uses.

If you wanna know what is going on concerning P2P, keep following this blog and reading its posts.



Turn pictures into artistic mosaics

A very versatile software to transform photos into mosaics was released a few time ago. In fact, you can turn any kind of picture into a very impressive artistic mosaic.

This tool is very powerful and offers you great control over a lot of configuration items, so it's possible to get many types of artistic mosaic effects. Knowing how to set the very useful parameters, you can get beautiful effects while keeping high-fidelity with the original image.

The page of the tool itself shows several interesting mosaic examples, proving how versatile this software is. Create amazing beautiful mosaics from your favorite photos by using the Artistic Mosaic Photo Effect.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  08/12/2012 ]

New online professional 3D text effects

Picture to People presents the biggest publishing ever made: more than 1200 new professional realistic 3D text effects.

During almost 2 years these effects have been made as a secondary project, always apart of the other softwares created according to P2P development schedule. I's very cool they are finally finished.

All these professional text generators have great advanced features like:

  • professional anti-aliased rendering;
  • very realistic results;
  • several different 3D text styles;
  • great control over the text shadow;
  • more than 450 great font faces;
  • optional transparent result image.

That last feature (transparent results) was a very old and frequent request of users. All the output engine from the site was modified to deliver this new option.

These new fresh effects cover more than 35 different themes, so I won't cite them here. Have a look at all covered subjects at this index page of the Professional Text Effects.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  07/28/2012 ]

Sketch your photo

Have you ever thought about turning your preferred photos in amazingly realistic pencil sketches? Using Picture to People new online software you can.

Using the most professional sketch photo effect you can create drawings as good as if you were a professional portrait drawer.

To see awesome samples of how this tool can generate impressive coherent detailed strokes, go to this page called The Best Pencil Sketch Photo Effects.

Try the best software to create pencil sketches from photos by going to the Realistic Pencil Sketch Photo Effect page.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  06/30/2012 ]

New text effects

We have published many new professional text effects this month. It is available even a new section about stainless text effects at our general page about Online Text Effects.

Below you see a list of the effect creators recently released. Each link goes to samples of the related new exciting text effects:

Probably soon there will be some tutorials using these new text effect generators at the blog about Text Effect Tutorials.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  05/30/2012 ]

Graffiti drawings

Have you ever thought about turning your photos into graffiti images? Well, there are some technical challenges to be overcomed, but we hope soon it will be possible.

It has been researched a new tool to transform pictures into graffiti. The intention is to create a professional software that has many of the interesting features our graffiti text generator has.

Since we are working very hard on this new software, possibly it can be released in some more weeks. Keep following our news to be one of the first to know about its publishing.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  04/29/2012 ]

New 3D text tool

It was recently released the new Picture to People tool to create 3D text effects. It's called Advanced 3D Text Effect specially because its renderer is based on advanced global illumination algorithms and heuristics. It's complementary to our other 3D text maker.

This new software is, for sure, the most professional and advanced 3D text generator ever published online. Some of its main features are:

  • good color control (including background);
  • native professional anti-aliasing;
  • realistic soft shadows;
  • cross shading (the letters shade each others);
  • easy and detailed configuration of 3D transformations;
  • many available text depths;
  • more than 400 fonts to choose from.

Despite its great quality and ability to deal with complex fonts, there was a huge effort to make this tool with a good performance, as an online software should be. Have fun using it!

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  03/30/2012 ]

Text effects tips

Picture to People offers many graphic tools to create professional results. Despite usually they are developed to be as easy and direct as possible, some of them are not trivial.

The project has several text effects and generators, so there are many tips and tricks to use them the best way. Smart users can get astonishing results that are as beautiful as the example images most tools have at their pages. Using your creativity, sometimes you can get effects that look even better than you expected.

If you are interested about getting the best graphic texts, you could like to read this blog about text effects tips and tutorials. There you will learn step by step how to create results like these ones you can see at our page called The Best Test Effects. Picture to People tools are fast, easy to use and require no design skills.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  01/28/2012 ]

Realistic light text effects

After a long and very hard work, finally it was released Picture to People newest online tool: an astonishing powerful set of renderers focused on drawing light text effects.

First P2P light drawing software was not very general and had low performance. This last undesired property made it unsuitable to be used online. There were many researches to make possible creating a new light drawing engine. This work was very worthy, so it was developed a much more powerful and faster model. After that, a big list of light rendereres was coded and used to make available more than 170 light text effects.

This new feature has a catalog page, just like our general text generator. It's called Light Text Effects. Since most of these effects are hard to be really understood in a very small example (like just a letter "a"), this new catalog have better examples. For sure they will be useful to all users.

Hopefully soon there will be some light effect tuturials that use this new exciting software at our blog about text effects. The world of light text effects will never be the same again.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  12/21/2011 ]

Turn your pictures into cartoons

This month we published one more graphic software. This one was specially developed to turn photos and complex images into cartoons that really look like beautiful drawings.

This new tool has an amazingly powerful renderer that helps you to control how colors, gradients and contours should be used to generate the result you are looking for. It's also very useful to create very beautiful "vexel like" drawings.

It was made a great effort to creat a software that, despite being very powerful, is very easy to use. You just need to read the tips and spend a little time practicing. If you are used to create nice images using Picture to People tools, for sure you will have no problem.

Use our Cartoon Photo Effect feature right now and generate astonishing cartoons or vexel drawings from your pictures.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  11/30/2011 ]

More than 3,000,000 users

Our site already received more than three million visits (estimating more than 1,500,000 users just this year). The release of 3D Graffiti Text Effect tool was antecipated just to celebrate this mark and there still are new releases this year in our schedule.

We would like to thank you for using Picture to People. Computer Graphics is our business and we proudly offer you the best free online graphic tools around the Internet. Here everything is developed from scratch, so we can create any graphic software we want.

If you have doubts, suggestions or need some help using Picture to People tools, please join our discussion group. It's spam free and your personal information is kept safe.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  10/21/2011 ]

3D Graffiti text effects

Picture to People project proudly presents the most advanced software already created to generate realistic graffiti text effects. It's like if you had even painted the graffiti on that walls for real.

Using a so powerful program can be a little tricky. It's worth to spend some minutes reading the tips we wrote at the software page. They can be very useful for newbies and even for advanced P2P users.

Please visit our page about The Best Graffiti Text Effects to get a better idea concerning what this great renderer can make for you. There you can see many interesting and even inspiring graffiti text examples.

Come to get the more impressive and professional graffiti effects by using our 3D Graffiti Text Effect renderer.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  09/30/2011 ]

Water Text effects

The newest Picture to People tool already is online. It's a tool totally focused on drawing Water Text Effect.

Its results are essentially different of the ones you get by using the Liquid Text Effect tool. Briefly speaking, this new software draws text with water appearance without destroying the font curves, but using them to guide the shape that water should have.

Unlike most tools of this kind, usually these new water renderers work better with font faces that are not very irregular. Too irregular fonts tend to generate a lot of interference, so the final image has too much foam.

By choosing wisely the font face to use with a rendering style, you can get even realistic results. I intend to post some tutorials about this new tool in our blog about text effect tips in a near future.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  08/14/2011 ]

Picture to People libraries improvements

These last weeks Picture to People is receiving several improvements and optimizations in its low level libraries. They will help us to get even better and faster graphic tools.

The more we develop complex and time consuming Computer Graphics features, the more we need to pay special attention to performance, use of resources and scalability. We are working very hard to bring even more astonishing and useful free effects just for you.

You can have an idea about some of the most significative recent P2P advances, mainly for Maccala library:

By the way, new surprises are coming soon. We intend to release a new tool in next weeks.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  07/02/2011 ]

Font effects

Have you ever wanted TrueType or OpenType fonts were able to make a little more? Have you ever wanted to change a little an usual font face? Now we have a tool to go beyond the traditional font rendering engines and turn regular fonts in something more complex or more stylized.

It's our first software totally focused on typography. If Picture to People usually releases "text effects", we could think about this like a software to make "font effects". As usual, this feature is simple to use, but can generate very nice results.

We are crazy for computer graphics and for typography too. We intend always to deliver the best free graphic tools to help you creating powerful and beautiful text/font effects. Use our tool to make font effects at Online Font Effects section.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  05/20/2011 ]

Cloud text effects

Have you ever tried the last Picture to People tool? It helps you to create beautiful cloud text effects. This software offers several different renderers to use, so you can get several cloud styles as can be seen in nature. Many users have already asked for this feature by email.

When dealing with this new feature, you will notice the background color you choose has a key role in the final result. Depending on the set color, you get a denser cloud, or otherwise a more fading one.

If you are already used to Picture to People tools, probably you will think this feature is very easy to use. We always try to make powerful tools, but that are simple and intuitive too. Try it now at the Cloud Text Effect page.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  04/27/2011 ]

More than 2,000,000 visitors

Picture to People already surpassed two million visitors and the site isn't two and a half years old yet (look at the footer of the page to see the counter). In last year of life, P2P got more than one million visitors.

To celebrate this mark, it has been developed some new astonishing graphic effects. If everything goes well, most of them will be released this year.

Thank you for using Picture to People. We sincerely hope our tools are very useful for you. Probably there will be great news in next months. Join our secure discussion group to be one of the first to know about next releases and other announcements.

Our discussion group is safe because we protect it against spam and Google protects your personal information. As an example, neither the group admin can know your email.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  03/19/2011 ]

Photo Colorful Drawing

Since some days ago, Picture to People has a new amazing feature to turn pictures into colorful pencil drawings.

After a long experience developing artistic graphic effects, probably it's our best software to create complex realistic drawings from photos. It has many interesting properties:

  • it can be very realistic if you use it correctly;
  • the strokes can be even more delicate and detailed;
  • taking in account its complexity, the processing time is short;
  • it has no limitations concerning number of strokes.

If you like artistic photo effects, probably you should have a good look at our new tool called Photo Colorful Drawing.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  02/26/2011 ]

Image Converter

Now you can convert your images among 50 of the most important file formats available in the market by using Picture to People Image Converter.

You can transform your favorite images into formats like BMP, DIB, GIF, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIF, etc. It's very simple and easy to use: just set the input file to upload, choose the output file format and convert an image with one click.

If an image conversion tool can be useful for you, consider using our very handy Image Converter.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  01/22/2011 ]

Stone text effects

It was just released a new exciting Picture to People feature. It's a tool to create amazing realistic rock/stone text effects. You have several rock types to choose from a list with the best preset styles, so you don't need to deal with complex configurations.

This new software uses very powerful renderers behind the scenes. All stone effects are rendered on the fly using advanced procedural algorithms and the results have a good 3D look.

There are some simple but interesting parameters to set, including the background color and the overall stone colors. The shadow drawing is very flexible too. If you like stone effects, the Stone Text Effect section can be very useful for you.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  12/27/2010 ]

Photo Sketch

This month Picture to People received a new tool called "Photo Sketch". It has state of art, next generation effects to transform even the more detailed photos into very realistic pencil sketches or drawings (like the ones professional artists make by hand).

Each result image is composed by thousands or even millions of carefully chosen strokes and depending on the style you select, these strokes can be very delicated and detailed.

To have a real idea about the power of this new Picture to People feature, have a good look at the Photo Sketch Gallery. To use it right now, just go to the Photo Sketch section.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  11/26/2010 ]

Smoke text effects

Picture to People proudly announces that it was just released a new advanced tool totally dedicated to smoke text rendering.

Experience has shown that text made of smoke is one of the more desired text effects by designers and graphic users, so there was a very big effort on this development. It was really hard to make, but it's finally ready to use.

This new feature has several different smoke generators, so you can generate most smoke styles you see in nature. You can even choose the background color of your image (it is a hard thing to make when dealing with this kind of procedural algorithm).

This tool has more than 100 font faces to choose from and the selected font has an important role in the final result. For sure there are a lot of possibilities to be explored! If smoke text effects can be useful for you, have a good look at the "Smoke Text Effect" section.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  10/28/2010 ]

3D text effects

Now Picture to People has a tool to draw "true" 3D texts. The effects you get using this renderer are really created using three-dimensional modeling and rendering algorithms.

This new feature has some rendering styles and several 3D models to choose from. It is really easy to use and prevents you from dealing with angles, axis, coordinates and other Math concepts you don't want to care about.

Since you can use this effect with many different font faces and color schemes, for sure you will be able to create a beautiful 3D text according to your needs.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  09/07/2010 ]

New text effects released

Now Picture to People has 12 new text effects. You can already use them starting from the Online Text Effects. This catalog already offers more than 150 easy to use, high quality text effects.

There are new renderers for:

  • metallic text effects;
  • silver text effects;
  • wood text effects;

Beside that, the light drawing library is in development yet. When its production is more advanced, a lot of light text effects will be created and released in Picture to People project.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  08/23/2010 ]

Drawing images with text

The new Picture to People tool was already released. It is called "Typographic Photo Effect".

With ths handy tool, you can draw any image you want using text. This renderer can even turn your favorite photos in text, and there are many font faces to choose from.

This effect was carefully developed to try to keep the source image details as much as possible. To get the best results, it's a good idea to use high contrast images.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  07/31/2010 ]

Light Drawings from Photos

Have you ever tried the new Picture to People tool? Now you can transform your photos in nice drawings made of light. This tool have some good configuration level and it can be used to make neon effects as well.

When using this effect engine, usually you get better results using saturated photos with well-defined regions. Adjusting brightness and/or contrast of your input photos can help you to get better light drawings.

If you like light effects, probably you should have a look at the "Light Photo Effect" section.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  06/18/2010 ]

A light library

A hard effort has been made to develop a library totally focused on drawing lights. It needs to be powerful enough to achieve Picture to People quality requeriments.

This new library should be generic and configurable enough to open new possibilities concerning effects. It's a hard task as always.

In some preliminary tests, I was able to generate some light styles. I show some light sources the software can already draw in the Picture to People development blog.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  05/31/2010 ]

Use the new high quality Text Generator!

Finally, after a long hard work, it was released the most professional and powerful free text generator ever. It's a very good improvement in Picture to People project.

You have more than 140 high quality, ready to use, text effects. There are so many choices, so for sure you will find an useful configuration to your blog, site, interface, messenger, facebook or whatever.

Many of these texts are very realistic and can not be made easily (few clicks) even using the most expensive desktop graphic programs. You can easily choose the best text effect to fit your needs in Online Text Effects section.

By the way, it was created a new, more beautiful header for this web site using its new tool. The "Picture to People" words were rendered using the forth blue metal effect.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  13/03/2010 ]

A new professional Text Generator is coming

After some months of very hard work, the Picture to People graphic libraries were improved and received some new infrastructure it didn't have before. The preliminary tests were very positive and now, using this new low level software, a new text generator is been developed. It's not procedural like the effects you can use in "Text Effects" section.

Until now, you just would be able to make many kinds of artistic texts using the most expensive desktop graphic softwares in the market.This new Picture to People tool should bring to users a big variety of new, last generation, professional text effects. It will be possible use its professional text effects with any True Type font.

Keep following Picture to People project, because this new, powerful, text generation tool will be released in some weeks.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  01/30/2010 ]

Picture to People: more than 500,000 visits!

According to Site Meter, Picture to People site already had more than 500,000 visits. The counter is at bottom left of each page. It's real counting, because each Picture to People server request runs a request to Site Meter server too.

Thanks for visiting the site and using Picture to People tools. I hope they can always be useful to you, no matter if you work with graphics very often or not.

Keep up with Picture to People project: use the site, read the blog, join the discussion group. This project has professional quality and it's free. You can help giving to Picture to People a link in your blog/site, or with a positive comment in a forum or in your blog. Be sure I'm working hard to release new beautiful and useful graphic tools to you.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  11/26/2009 ]

Transforming photos into stone

A tool to make your photos look like stone was released.

Most of carving effects can be easily done are far from realistic. If you are bored with the old simple non-realistic carving filters, probably you will like this.

Despite the feature tries to be realistic, it also tries to preserve as much as possible the original space and color informations. These properties make this effect very suitable to photos.

Try it in "Photo Stone" section. There are four styles to you choose from.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  10/17/2009 ]

Drawing text with liquid

Now Picture to People has a powerful tool to create any kind of liquid text over an image. You can easily get very impressive results even uploading an image with a flat color.

It has a very high configuration level and brings a new concept concerning digital art: every output is virtually unique. Behind this feature is a very powerful randomizer, so, once you run the engine, nobody will get a result exactly as yours. It's like a real liquid that never repeats itself exactly the same way.

The input font can be distorted in a vector based way to improve the realistic appearance of the liquid. This distortion can go from a rounding of sharp corners to a much more advanced "liquifying".

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  09/13/2009 ]

Picture to People vector drawing library

If you are a software developer or are just curious, you could like to see how Picture to People is inside. Feel invited to know how our Computer Graphics software is constructed on a solid basis visiting the page about Maccala.

There you can see a lot of examples about what the library is able to do. Each image has proper comments about what is relevant or interesting. Some features are not easy to find in vector based libraries, free or comercial, mainly when made from scratch.

You can give suggestions about the next library features. You just need to join the Picture to People discussion group and start posting.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  08/31/2009 ]

More than 200,000 visitors to Picture to People

Picture to People already had more than 200,000 visitors. You can see the counter at bottom left of each page.

Thanks for visiting and using Picture to People. We proudly offer free Computer Graphics tools to everyone able to access the Internet. If you can, give us a link in your site or blog, so maybe we can achieve even more people.

We are working very hard and some nice tools are under development right now. As always, some exclusive algorithms are been created to bring you the best on Computer Graphics.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  07/22/2009 ]

Picture to People discussion group

It was just created a group to Picture to People project. Google was choosen because it offers some nice features.

There you can:

  • Tell about your experience using the project;
  • Call for help;
  • Know about relevant anouncements;
  • Ask for new features;
  • Suggest new tools;
  • Discuss about algorithms and software developement, since related to Computer Graphics.

As you can see, it will work like a mix of forum, rss, ... So It can be worthy if you join. It's your chance to say something. The group is here: http://groups.google.com/group/picturetopeople.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  07/14/2009 ]

Real Pencil, second version

The realistic pencil drawing engine from photos was released in its second version some days ago.

Now there are 4 plain (gray) pencil effects and 3 colorful effects. When you have a photo with a big amount of midtones, usually a colorful effect gives better results (unless you make some smart color preprocessing of your photo).

Sometimes a lack of details in the output drawing can prevent you from achieving the result you want. In this second version, Real Pencil has a very conservative pencil effect (the style 6 one) able to tackle very detailed photos.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  07/11/2009 ]

Transforming photos into pencil drawings

Now Picture to People has a new and powerful tool to transform photos in pencil drawings. It is named "Real Pencil".

Despite the other P2P effects to create pencil drawings, colorful drawings and paintings from photos, this one is different. It's totally vector based and its renderer makes complicated calculations to generate thousands of delicated strokes.

The more important point is all Real Pencil calculations are made trying to draw the strokes in a very similar way to the style used by many human people.

Just a good tip: if you prefer clear, soft pencil drawings, possibly you will need to ajust the bright of your input photos before applying Real Pencil effects.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  06/21/2009 ]

New header to Picture to People site

Some users had given a feedback telling the site is very beautiful and functional, but the header was not so nice.

Some days ago Picture to People site has received a new header. It is not so simple, more modern and uses an effect from the site itself.

I hope now the top banner is good enough compared to the rest of site.

By the way, Picture to People already got over than 150,000 hits. Thank you for using it and be sure new Computer Graphics effects are under research for you.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  06/16/2009 ]

Artistic vexel renderer, second version

The vexel renderer to create artistic drawings has just reached its second version.

The algorithm behind this renderer is VERY complex, so many times it's very hard to fix the found bugs. This task can take days or even weeks, because it can be too difficult to understand the reason of a bug.

The artistic vexel renderer was already working, but several minor bugs were removed. Now this tool is more precise and robust, helping to create drawings that are more similar to the input photos.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  05/31/2009 ]

Artistic vexel renderer released

A very innovative and useful tool is now online in Picture to People site.

Using the just released artistic vexel renderer, you can transform your favorite photos in a large variety of stylistic drawings. There are many choices, since this tool is highly configurable.

All this power has a price. This functionality is not so trivial as it's usual in P2P site. At least while there is no tutorial for it, you will need to spend some time trying the many possibilities until you feel confortable with all offered options.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  05/15/2009 ]

Artistic vexel renderer preliminar examples

Currently Picture to People tool to make artistic vexel drawings from photos is under development.

Its power is very high, since it has several freedom degrees. There is a going study to decide what it's the best way to present it to the final user.

This blog is not used to show outputs from unreleased tools, but there is a increasing amount of preliminar results concerning the artistic vexel renderer here.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  05/12/2009 ]

Picture to People site: over than 100,000 visits

According to Site Meter, Picture to People site already had more than 100,000 visits. You can see the counter at bottom left of each page. It's not an estimate, since the site runs a source code directly from Site Meter.

It's a very good mark, since Picture to People is a baby site (it's online just since December 2008). As the time goes, probably the visits number will increase faster, because an uncountable number of tools and features will be released in the site yet.

A lot of thanks for visiting and be sure that some new and very advanced graphic tools are under research to let you get really nice graphics with very few effort.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  05/04/2009 ]

Artistic vexel drawing from photos

Now there is a very important and exciting Picture to People sub-project under development. Since P2P vector based low level libraries already are really stable and powerful, it's time to tackle a new and hard challenge: develop a never seen, higher level, vexel based, rendering engine with data extracted from photographs.

The focus is about getting a very flexible (configurable) tool, able to make very artistic and innovative drawings, but without lose the most important informations from input photos.

Just after doing this, Picture to People libraries will be taken to an even higher level: be able to make vector based drawings with directed field warping and arbitrary multi-level alpha.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  04/19/2009 ]

Picture to People vexel renderer

Picture to People site now has a vexel renderer. It's configurable and have 3 shape/color levels and 3 line levels. If you prefer, you can use no lines at all. Using this renderer you can transform a photo in a nice "artifical looking" draw, always keeping the main information from the original image.

This tool uses a different interface style, where you have, in the same page, an example of all possible configurations. Like most Picture to People graphic tools, you can also change the renderer outputs preprocessing the input photos. Another good idea is to use the vexel renderer and other effects together to achieve new and different results.

Possibly more vexel tools will be added to Picture to People in future.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  04/06/2009 ]

New Picture to People tutorials

Picture to People tutorial list is getting bigger. There you can already learn about several interesting points of the software and how to use it better.

Generally speaking, the already released tutorials cover the following subjects:

  • Using pattern effects to draw useful pieces of art like a smoke column or a realistic cloud;
  • Getting the best rendered texts using text effects and/or pattern effects;
  • Tricks for the best results when using not so obvious photo effects like the pencil sketch one;
  • Good uses of the palette generator;
  • Using photo effects and the image editor to get very different results starting from text effects.

You can also suggest subjects for new tutorials contacting us at picturetopeople@gmail.com.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  03/29/2009 ]

Changes in main page

Picture to People site now has an improved main page. It's a evolution planned more than 3 weeks ago.

Now its appearence is more modern and makes the overall layout not so simple.

More important than the looking itself, now the first page shows a little bit about what you can do using Picture to People tools.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  02/10/2009 ]

Computer Graphics tutorials

Now Picture to People site has a "Tutorials" part in left side main menu. This section already started with two articles.

Each tutorial intend to show you how to get a nice result or how to make things better with P2P tools.

Every survey written will get a post here, so you will know easily what's new about that.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  02/08/2009 ]

New tool for palette generation

Using Picture to People now you can create a complete palette from an input color. It's done by ranging a suitable value concerning the original color like saturation or brightness.

The palette can be used to find colors that make a good combination with your "pivot" color. It's very usefull, for example, to help deciding what colors to use together in software interfaces.

You can range one of the following color values to get a palette:

  • Red Channel;
  • Green Channel;
  • Blue Channel;
  • Brightness;
  • Saturation;
  • Hue.

You will find the Palette Generator in the Colors section of the left side main menu.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  01/29/2009 ]

New tool to convert colors

Now Picture to People has a tool for color conversion among the more important color spaces.

The conversion is made automatically from a color model to all others, and you see all the results together. This way, it's possible to make interesting comparisons among the different color representations and learn a lot about these models.

Here you have a list of the supported color spaces:

  • RGB (Red Green Blue);
  • CMY (Ciano Magenta Yellow);
  • HSB (Hue Saturation Brightness);
  • HSV (Hue Saturation Value);
  • HSI (Hue Saturation Intensity);
  • HSL (Hue Saturation Lightness);
  • YIQ (Luma In-phase Quadrature);
  • YUV (Luma Chrominance(U) Chrominance(V));
  • YCbCr 1:1:1 (Luma Blue-Luma Red-Luma);
  • CIE 1931 (X Y Z).

By the way, there is a new section called "Colors" in the left side main menu. There you can find a link to the Color Converter, and there are another color tool in development.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  01/28/2009 ]

The more used effects

Now, in the right side bar of Picture to People site, you can see a list of the more used photo effects and text effects.

Clicking any of the small images in the side bar, you go to a page with better examples of these top effects.

In top text effects page, in addition to the example images, you can find simple tips and explanations on a smart use of these effects.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  01/17/2009 ]

Improving site organization

The original idea was publish just hard to get Computer Graphics effects. Since Picture to People site got online, users have been asking for "common" graphic utilities like bright, contrast, reduction, mirror and crop.

I already started releasing this kind of functionality and much more will come. Anyway, there are several kind of graphic tools online and a certain restructuring was needed to make it clear. I want to keep separated different stuff.

Now the uncommon effects more suitable for photos are in the "Photo Effects" section and the simple utilities useful for any image are in the "Image Editor" section.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  01/04/2009 ]

New year, new blog!

It's the first post of the new Picture to People project's blog.

I will keep the old blog for personal posting, but I'm glad now even the blog is under the same address (picturetopeople.org).

I will try to keep this blog as clean, soft and light as I can.

Be welcome and I hope you come back soon (and always) to know the news about P2P free tools.

[ Posted by Leonardo  -  01/02/2009 ]