It could be done with a displacement map fairly easily, or possibly the curve bend tool.
There is a GSoC project that may give a "cage distort" that would make such a thing trivial. -Rob A. On 3/28/10, Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.do...@gmail.com> wrote: > Recently a friend of mine showed me a picture where someone had taken > a photo of a newspaper that laid on a table, slightly folded in the > middle as newspapers often are. (See e.g. > http://www.brogan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/newspaper.jpg) > This particular someone had then inserted a picture of himself, > replacing some other picture that was on the front page. It looked > pretty realistic, unless one looked closely. > > This got us discussing how this someone had put the picture of himself > in there. The main problem would be to get the picture to "fold" > according to the newspaper. We are both newbies when it comes to this > sort of stuff, but my friend who is a computer graphics freak insisted > that the person had used a 3D model of a newspaper and then simply > "texturized" it with the image of himself. > > Personally, I thought (and still believe) that this can easily be done > using a GIMP plugin in which one somehow selected the parts where the > real image was located on the newspaper and then the plugin would > perform some magic (skew etc.) to replace it with the other picture. > > Are there any plugins readily available for this sort of stuff? Is it > "easy" to write a plugin which does this? > > -- > Deniz Dogan > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
