Colorblindness Update #2

So after some further work on it I figured out how to mess with the channels and I think I have some progress I will continue to post my updates as I work to fixing this.

open(File(openDialog())); var docRef_1 = activeDocument
docRef_1.backgroundLayer.duplicate();

var channelRefred = app.activeDocument.channels.getByName("Red");
var channelRefgre = app.activeDocument.channels.getByName("Green");
var channelRefblu = app.activeDocument.channels.getByName("Blue");

//gets red channel
//channelRefblu.visible = false;
//channelRefgre.visible = false;


//selects copys red channel
app.activeDocument.selection.load(channelRefred)
app.activeDocument.selection.copy()

//pastes red layer
app.activeDocument.selection.selectAll()
app.activeDocument.paste()

//turns on green and red off
//channelRefgre.visible = true;
//channelRefred.visible = false;

//copies green channel
app.activeDocument.selection.load(channelRefgre)
app.activeDocument.selection.copy()

//selects copys red layer
app.activeDocument.selection.selectAll()
app.activeDocument.selection.copy()

//pastes red layer
app.activeDocument.selection.selectAll()
app.activeDocument.paste()

Coloblindness Update

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/US_Flag_color_blind.png

So on Tuesday we were assigned to take a photo and make it as though we were colorblind. We ran through how to do it manually in Photoshop and by using channels. So far in scripting I can open a photo, and am working on messing with channels in scripts but I am having some issues with it. I also want to do a different colorblindness other then the Red-Green, such as a Yellow-Blue, but there is no yellow channel so that is also a challenge I am trying to work through. Hopefully I can finish it before class tomorrow but I honestly don't think I will and will more likely finish it sometime this weekend, at least the Red-Green one, the Yellow-Blue one takes a little more work I think, though I am really interested in figuring it out.

HDR... Beautiful

So last week we talked about HDR and how it works and some amazing things you can do with it. Here are some amazingly awesome HDR images, please enjoy.

digitalartempire.com/2010/05/67-extraordinary-hdr-images-you-must-see

Color Wheel

Better late then never they say. So after some working on it some over Spring break and Andrews help on Monday I think I got it done. And going based off some of the cooler "painted" effects I made them cubes so they would intersect each other and give that somewhat painted feel.
 
float $rot = 360/30.0;
float $trans = 1.0/5.0;
string $name;
string $name2;
for ($x=0;$x<30.0;$x++)
{
    for ($y=0;$y<5;$y++)

    {
        $name = `shadingNode -asShader blinn`;
        $name2 = $name + ".color";     
        $angle = $x * $rot;
        $sat = $y * $trans;
        $hue = $angle/360.0;     

        vector $color = hsv_to_rgb(<<$hue, $sat, 1>>);
        setAttr $name2 -type double3 ($color.x) ($color.y) ($color.z);

        polyCube -w .3 -h .1 -d .3 -sx 1 -sy 1 -sz 1 -ax 0 1 0 -cuv 4 -ch 1;

        xform -translation $sat 0 0;
        rotate -pivot .1 .1 .1 0 $angle 0;
        hyperShade -assign $name;

    }
}
;

Photoshop Scripting

In searching for tutorials on scripting in Photoshop I found some interesting sites and good and interesting tutorials. First off I have programmed in Javascript for my previous website design class. To help me learn I used the great resource W3Schools, which really helps with learning the basic Javascript functions.

http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp

Nextly I used Morris-Photographics to learn how to get an introduction to scripting. It has a good overview of scripting for Photoshop and using actions and some nice little free scripts available, along with other Photoshop related info.

http://morris-photographics.com/photoshop/index.html

 Lastly I used Good-Tutorials (which may have only been the 2nd link in Google) but I liked it because of the typographic poster tutorial and it has the amount of tutorials it has. I have also used it for other Photoshop tutorials beside scripting off here and they were very useful and easy to follow.

http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorials/photoshop/scripting
http://www.psawesome.com/tutorials/psawesome-typotiler-script-create-text-blocks-with-photos

After just playing around with some of the scripts I got a slight understanding of how Photoshop scripting works and after this weekend when I have more time to mess around with it I think I will be able to understand it some more.




 

Who needs Da Vinci?

Today a lot of people say that digital media is getting rid of classical styles of art, such as painting. I would argue that, not only is it not getting rid of it, it is inspiring it. For example we have The Mona Lisa a famous world renowned painting, and in the following video we see a digital painter aspiring to remake the masterpiece.

www.metacafe.com/watch/508246/ms_paint_painting_mona_lisa/

Yet digital painting is doing so much more than what just painting did, it inspires new ideas, new process and new styles as showcased by this video.

www.blendernation.com/tutorial-painting-time-lapse-by-david-revoy

So who said that digital media is bad?? Closed minded fools who can't accept that something new can be just as awe-striking as something that has been done for thousands of years.

Link you look so old!!!!

Here is an interesting take on Link from Zelda, an older more aged Link. An interesting and plausible way to age Link and continue the Legend of Zelda series. It could be kinda like how they did the same thing that they did with Snake and Metal Gear Solid 4.


http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showpost.php?p=746723