Kill Color!
I just got Kill Color working, which can remove a targeted color from an image without altering it in any other way. It preserves Value while removing a targeted Hue. It needs lots more features before it will be very useful but it works! (Its Alive!)
It will be able to remove a targeted color, replace a color, color to alpha, some basic color targeted HSL transforms, and what ever else I can dream up. It will defiantly have green screen like abilities, but I will probable make a separate plugin more dedicated towards green screening after I release this one.
see bellow for some early examples of it capabilities!
distracting backgrounds are easily removed. the blue that was reflected in her eyes and teeth were also removed, no traces are left of targeted colors. image source
and just a little more touch up to remove the yellow bounce light from her face. In this case not all yellow was removed, just enough.
note that the “blue” that is left is actually magenta a critical distinction. image source
delicate color blends are preserved, and look just as they did in the original image. image source
Updates!
Just updated the themes on my blog and have now integrated my art portfolio! Been meaning to do this for a while, finally found the time.
Continuing work on Kill Color, cousin of the ever popular Kill White. Yes it will work! But it is much harder and not nearly as straight forward as Kill White, which means there will be tons of options. Count on it.
also trying to learn C++ so I will hopefully soon enough be making full fledged Mac and 64 bit versions of my plugins!
Kill White
Kill White is a Photoshop Filter that actively removes white from an image (unlike the ‘Multiply’ blend mode), perfectly leaving the rest of the image, whether the image is black-and-white or color.
However, this is not simple masking. Pixels that are partly transparent are altered so as to only remove the white portion. Shadows and gradients will remain in the image, only white is removed.
I made this Filter with my good friend Yael Martiz.
Examples:
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Generic Photoshop Installer 1.0
After all my scripting projects I decided an actual installer would be great to have, instead of one off creations. So I made a generic installer that can handle just about any type of file you want to install into Photoshop. Including: brushes, Scripts, Filters, Actions, and many more. This installer does error checking on every file and folder regardless how many, and produces a log file. (you may need to extract the zip first to produce a log file) Read the rest of this post »
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Combining Normal Maps
I recently realized that long time game professionals still use the Overlay mode transfer to combine normal maps. This is not accurate and results in image degradation.
Let me show you.
In this test I will compair overlay mode transfer to an action file made by Rod Green. I combined two normal maps with both methods. They look very similar, it is hard to visually tell the difference. Luckily there is another method to measure accuracy.
