I found this question to be quite interesting, as I have also tried to do this. Here is my best effort -- but it's not good enough, and I abandoned it at this point. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ettervor/2068285975 I'd also be interested in how to make this look more realistic.
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Xiella Harksell <xie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. >> >> > >> It could be done with a displacement map fairly easily, or possibly >> the curve bend tool. >> >> > Yep. > > Like this? http://i41.tinypic.com/2gt1yxh.png > > I made this entire thing in about 45 mins from scratch, but if obv. you > didn't want to paint a tree, design a newspaper, etc you could probably do > it faster. To get the skew, I used the displacement map with a perfectly > horizontal black/white gradient layer, then perspective distort, then > rotate. For realism you'd have more variations with the gradient layer, and > the pixellation would be solved if you had a bigger starting resolution. No > 3D model. Hope that helped. > > ~ X > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > > -- Helen Etters using Linux, using openSUSE11.0
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