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Subpixel vector drawing with professional antialiasing

2013-05-23T02:24:00.000-03:00

I have made a great improvement to Maccala's 2D vector based rendering engine.

Now the drawing library is able to render arbitrary curves with an outstanding precision, so the resulting antialiased drawings have an astonishing quality.

Maccala have already been using the rasterizing algorithm I researched and developed myself. Now I have improved it to draw even better curves with a thickness smaller than one, and there is an important things about it: this upgrade didn't take to a performance loss.

Most drawing algorithms just can't draw anything narrower than 1 pixel. When they need to do it, they just change the curve/shape color to a value closer to the background color, so the curve looks "less visible" - it's just a cheat. Inkscape, for example, make it this way (at least it made when I used to work with it).

My algorithm doesn't cheat you. It really can draw with a sub-pixel precision by using the selected color and with a very impressive antialiasing level. Sub-pixel curves made the right way seem thinner than the ones created by using the trick I explained above.

Below I show you a text normally rendered (filled) with a reasonably complex font. So you see the outline of the same text rendered with a thickness of 1 pixel. The next drawing is the same, but the curves have a thickness of 0.5. Finally, the last outline has just the tiny thickness of 0.25 pixel, but the quality is perfect.

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Enhance your photos online for free

2013-05-19T16:09:00.003-03:00

I have just published a new Picture to People online software. It's a free color enhancer for photos.

It's very easy to use, fast and very handy. You just need to select the kind of color scheme you want and set the level of color improvement. Choosing a low enhancement level helps you to get a fine grain improvement.

As a plus, you can enhance the detail level of your photo, and it also has a nice increase control. You should just take care when using this option, because it can make the photo flaws more visible.

Below I show you a photo with very poor colors, and a improved one created by using our free Online Photo Color Enhancer.

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Faster online sketch effects for photos

2013-05-14T22:01:00.000-03:00

I keep doing a hard work concerning the optimization of low level Picture to People libraries.

I'm a little worried about a bad collateral effect coming from these improvements: a lot of source codes become much harder to understand and maintain. Anyway, I hope the speed increase pays off this undesirable consequence.

More photo effects already got faster, including the sketch photo effects and other related ones. Bellow you can see a photo and a related detailed pencil drawing produced online. It was created by using the Realistic Pencil Sketch Photo Effect and now this one can be generated 10% faster after the optimizations I already made.

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Watercolor photo effect online (faster than ever)

2013-05-05T22:07:00.001-03:00

I'm making a very hard work to optimize some Picture to Picture core libraries. I have already spend several days and nights making this very important task.

Most of P2P code is already fast, but I want to achieve a new level of high speed, so I will be able to dream about publishing new complex text and photo effects online.

This job will take some more weeks. Optimizing complex code is very tricky, and some algorithms need to be modified. Anyway, I'm already getting good results.

The Watercolor Painting Photo Effect uses several of the libraries under improvement and already is 10% faster in average. Bellow I show you a photo and a watercolor painting created by using the online software. The creation of this paint took 11% less time than before.

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Text effect tutorials (14)

2013-05-04T02:02:00.000-03:00

Here there is the list of text effect tutorials that were posted last month. You can see more details by visiting the Online Text Effects Tutorials blog.

- a wintry snow text effect;
- a 3D robotic text effect;
- a stylized savage text effect;
- a 3D stainless steel text effect;

By following these tutorials you can create these awesome text effects:

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New high quality online text effect creators

2013-04-25T21:37:00.001-03:00

I have published new online text effect creators in Picture to People software called Online Text Effects.

Now there are new effect generators for acrylic, gold, plastic, etc. These ones already take advantage of some recent improvements I made recently in P2P graphic libraries.

Below you see some nice examples of graphics that these new text makers can create. You can choose among more than 200 professional text effect in the Online Text Effects page.

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The 3D graffiti text maker online was improved

2013-04-23T22:57:00.002-03:00

After some hard work, I overcame a not very big, but very bothering bug in the online graffiti text generator.

As you can see in this graffiti text, there was a style of back drawing that generated some wrong artifacts in the outer borders.

This problem was happening because my directional curve expansion was wrong. I created an almost totaly new algorithm and now I suppose the process is correct. Below you see the same graffiti text generated by using the newer calculations.

Just as a final tip, despite I created above a shallow graffiti, this online graffiti generator offers a fine control over the text deepness. Below I show you a deep 3d graffiti text (the same configuration, but using the maximum text deepness).

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Online graffiti photo effect

2013-04-09T23:08:00.002-03:00

Have you ever used the P2P graffiti photo generator published online some time ago?

I spent a lot of effort to offer many graffiti styles in this software, so it can be useful to all users, no matter the kind of art they like.

This tool can create very advanced artworks in many different backgrounds, always trying to keep maximum fidelity to the original photos. You even have very handy image improvement options to help you to get the most beautiful results according to the input image.

To inspire you to create amazing arts from your photos, I show below 3 different graffiti styles created by using the software (by using respectively a gradient, a painting and a sketch graffiti style). I have selected the same medium (a wall) in all cases to make easy a comparison of the graffiti styles. The images are beautiful, so it's worthy to click them to see in real size.

Try it by yourself at the Photo Graffiti Effect Generator page.

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Create semitransparent liquid text effects online

2013-04-07T17:34:00.000-03:00

I have published a new tool in Picture to People site. This new software is called Transparent Liquid Text Effect Creator and, as the name says, it's a new generic liquid effects generator.

It's a very powerful free online text maker with many advanced features, like for example:

- fine control of font face liquifying;
- optional semitransparent liquid;
- nice configuration of liquid shadow;
- optional output as PNG file (even with semitransparent liquid feature);
- more than 450 fonts to choose from;
- anti-aliased drawing.

In other words, by using this tool you can save transparent liquid text effects as semitransparent PNG files. It means you can use your liquid texts with any background image you need.

Below you see a sample of liquid text effect. This image was created by saving the liquid text as PNG and posteriorly drawing it on a back image. The liquid appearance of the font face also was made by the software.

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Draw text on photos online

2013-04-05T00:00:00.000-03:00

Picture to People users always contact me to ask for a tool to draw text over their photos and other images. The good news are that picture to people already offers such tool.

I have already published a software called Online Watermark Text Generator. It was created to be powerful and versatile enough to create watermark texts on photos, so by using it you can draw many types of texts on any image you want.

This "text on photo generator online" has many style and layout options, can draw semitransparent texts and always render professional anti-aliased texts. You can use it for any purpose. It's easy to use and free!

Bellow you see an image from a trip. The photo was identified with a nice text drawn by this P2P online graphic software (click the image to see it in real size).

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Text effect tutorials (13)

2013-04-03T13:35:00.000-03:00

This post shows you the text effect tutorials I published in March 2013. To know more details, visit my Online Text Effects Tutorials blog.

- a Darth Vader 3D text effect;
- a super bright golden text effect;
- a holed embossed text effect;
- a hellish fire text effect;

These tutorials have the needed tips and tricks, so you can get these amazing text effects:

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The best metallic text effect generators gathered online

2013-03-30T11:00:00.005-03:00

Picture to People has the best and biggest collection of free online metallic text effect generators. Since there are a huge number of metallic effect creators involving several softwares, sometimes can be a little tricky to find exactly the best metallic effect for you.

Trying to make things easier for you, I published a page to show directly most of P2P available metallic text effect makers, so you can quickly find the online text generator you prefer. It's the Online Metallic Text Effect Generators page.

As Picture to People has really many online metallic texts, the page if very big and can take a reasonable time to load if you don't have a fast internet connection. Nevertheless, it's very worthy waiting for it, because there you will find easily the most astonishing set of free online metallic text effect generators. You can see two examples below.

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Glow neon text effect generator online

2013-03-21T01:48:00.000-03:00

I have just released the newest P2P software. It's a text generator able to create very nice colorful light text effects and it's called Rainbow Neon Text Effect Creator.

By using this online text creator, you can generate beautiful texts of neon, light, glow and other styles related to this theme. This new free glow text effect maker has great features, like for example:

- advanced control over the colors. It's possible to use several kinds of color combinations and gradients;
- several light styles to render text;
- default color configuration to generate effects with a rainbow look;
- optional transparent background (read the tips at the generator's page).

Below you see a colorful neon text effect created with this software (click to enlarge). It was made by using the rainbow colors in a horizontal orientation.

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Realistic sand text effect generators online

2013-03-13T21:45:00.001-03:00

I have just published a new set of text effect generators. They were developed to be able to create very realistic sand text effects online, and they are fast and easy to use.

These new online text makers have advanced features like configuration of grain spread and optional transparent background.

Below you see an image of a sand text effect created by using one of these new online text generators. You can use them for free at the Grainy Sand Text Effects page of Picture to People official website.

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Generate realistic 3D glass text effects online

2013-03-07T22:25:00.001-03:00

I have released 15 new 3D glass text effects in the Picture to People software called Online Text Effects.

After these years of study, research and development, my glass effects are getting more and more realistic.

You can choose among the old and the new glass text effects in this Glass Text Effects section. There already are more than 30 ready to use, high quality, online glass text effects.

Below you can see 4 glass texts created by using some of the new glass text effects published online.

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Text effect tutorials (12)

2013-03-06T22:39:00.000-03:00

It's the list of text effect tutorials were posted last month. They are at my blog about Online Text Effects Tutorials.

- a shiny luxurious metallic text effect;
- a sunset gradient text effect;
- a futuristic circuit text effect;
- a broken glass text effect;

These tutorials teach you how to create these great text effects:

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Creating graffiti art from photos online

2013-02-27T01:00:00.001-03:00

Some time ago I have shown here an example of graffiti you can create from photos and pictures by using the Photo Graffiti Effect Generator released online.

That old example looks like an image created by drawing with sprays in a wall. The chosen renderer is nice, but that free graffiti creator has many painting styles, so you can make a lot of different artistic pieces.

Below you can see another drawing type offered by this online graffiti software. This style creates a modernist painting made by using acrylic ink and brushes. By clicking the image, you can see it in full size.

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New free online text effects under development

2013-02-20T20:34:00.000-03:00

I'm very busy developing new text effects to be released in the Picture to People site.

I'm creating new text effect generators and I hope they can be very realistic. Probably the next releases will be online text effect creators from this list:

- 3D Burnt wood text effects;
- 3D ice text effects;
- 3D copper text effects;
- 3D lava text effects.

Maybe I can publish one of them this month yet.

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More fonts to create special text effects online

2013-02-16T21:23:00.001-02:00

I have published some more fonts to be used with most of Picture to People online text effect generators. Since I also use P2P software to make my design works, I always miss a new different font to have more options and make my life easier. :)

As usual, you can choose these new font faces when using most of our free online text effect creators, like for example:

Below you can see how some of these new fonts looks like. These now regular fonts can be a big help to create unusual or special text effects.

As a P2P user, you can ask for new fonts to be included in the generators list. The requests should be made by posting a new thread at the Picture to People discussion group. Before requesting new fonts, regard any new font must comply with these requisites to be eligible as a P2P font:
1) be reasonably different from the already offered fonts;
2) implement at least all letters, numbers and punctuation marks;
3) be free for personal and commercial use.

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New realistic 3D text effect generators online

2013-02-13T02:34:00.000-02:00

I have published more than 50 new text effect creators as part of the Professional Text Effects online software. Several text effect themes now have a bigger amount of exciting realistic effects to you use for free.

Here it's the list of online 3D text makers that have new high quality effects:

- 3D Bamboo Text Effects: 4 new realistic effects;
- 3D Fabric Text Effects: 8 new realistic effects;
- 3D Floral Text Effects: 4 new realistic effects;
- 3D Geometric Text Effects: 1 new realistic effect;
- 3D Glass Text Effects: 1 new realistic effect;
- 3D Golden Text Effects: 7 new realistic effects;
- 3D Grunge Text Effects: 3 new realistic effects;
- 3D Ice Text Effects: 4 new realistic effects;
- 3D Letter Text Effects: 1 new realistic effect;
- 3D Painted Text Effects: 2 new realistic effects;
- 3D Paper Text Effects: 4 new realistic effects;
- 3D Psychedelic Text Effects: 3 new realistic effects;
- 3D Rainbow Text Effects: 1 new realistic effect;
- 3D Rusty Metal Text Effects: 2 new realistic effects;
- 3D Wooden Text Effects: 5 new realistic effects;

Below I show some realistic text effects created by using these new eye catching 3D text generators.

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Is it worthy using Google+ ?

2013-02-11T09:00:00.000-02:00

Do you like Google products? Well ... most people say "yes", because they have good technology and you can use them (usually) free of charge. I like some, others not very much.

I'm talking about this because I have created a page on Google+ for Picture to People project. In my opinion, Google is kind of imitating Facebook and trying to dominate the world in the area of social media and online content sharing, as they almost monopolized other segments. Everything they make aims to earn money. Sooner or later they will publish ads in all places of this new platform called "Google+". We see ads in Gmail and YouTube all the time, for example.

Anyway ...

I created the page because we can't just ignore any big social platform. Google+ seems to be growing (Google makes everything to push it up) and there already are people who really like it.

Furthermore, despite I didn't know how to use Google+ very well (usually there are several way to make to same thing and it really looks confusing to me), the page on Google+ seems to be the easiest and most comfortable way to follow all blogs that talk about Picture to People (because such blogs are in Google's blogging platform called "blogger") and even interact with P2P team. Just by following this page, you will see instantly what posts were published and related content. The page looks to have a nice engine for publishing comments too (all followers can comment).

So ... if you like to follow new technology trends and like Google softwares, I invite you to come with me to try it and see if this Picture to People page on Google+ can really make easy and intuitive we share news, informations, tips, images and content in general.

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Turn photos into graffiti paintings online

2013-02-10T00:13:00.001-02:00

I have released a software to turn photos into graffiti arts. I have received several requests from users to make something like this.

This new graffiti generator is nice and can draw your images over papers, fabrics, grounds, walls, woods, etc. Furthermore, it has many rendering styles.

This tools is versatile, so you can even make an effect that looks like if your photo was drawn on a paper sheet by using a pencil. Below I show you an example. In this case, it's like a traditional graffiti shading painted on a brick wall.

You can try this new online graffiti generator at the Photo Graffiti Effect Generator page in Picture to People site.

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Create horror text effects online

2013-02-08T21:34:00.000-02:00

I have just published some more fonts to be used with Picture to People text effects. This time I focused on macabre or scary fonts.

The list with more than 450 font faces already had some horror fonts, but I decided to improve the macabre theme. Now you can generate new interesting scary effects, usually by using glow text effects, stone text effects or other special effects P2P offers.

Below you can see a sample 3D horror text effect created by using one of these new fonts recently published. I didn't try to make something really special in this example. I just intended to show how a scary font can be nice when you need one.

As usual, you can use these fresh fonts in most our online text effect generators. Go to Picture to People and use them right now.

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New special fonts for text effects online

2013-02-06T00:03:00.001-02:00

Keeping our commitment to always offer more and more choices and options, I have just published 25 new non-regular fonts to be used with most of Picture to People online text effects.

Now there are almost 500 amazing fonts to you choose from when using our text effects. I can tell we have almost any style of font you can find out there. Among the text effect softwares that offer these new fonts are:

Below I show samples of some of these new uncommon fonts you can now use in Picture to People site.

As maybe you know, special font faces can, many times, help us to get even more exciting or unpredictable effect results. Sooner or latter I will show how to use some of these new fonts to get smart and beautiful text effects at the blog about Text Effects Tutorials.

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Text effect tutorials (11)

2013-02-03T21:02:00.001-02:00

Here it's the usual post telling you what text effect tutorials were published last month. You can get more details at my blog about Online Text Effects Tutorials.

- a dark reflective metallic text;
- a realistic transparent 3D glass text effect;
- other wooden text effect;
- a stylized water text effect;

These tuts will show you how to get these final text images:

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