3deep pictures
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- CphGD
Hi yall,
Any of you know how the background pictures on this site is made?
http://www.3deep.com.au/
- Nairn0
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Bloody hell. They've used around 700 div declarations and slightly adjusted the positioning on each.
Quite clever - but quite blunt. I kind of hoped for some autogenerating script or something.
Neat, though.
- CphGD0
Thanks Naim :)
Any of you know a smart way to do it in photoshop. It doesn't have to look exactly like that but have the same feeling. Please help!
- Crouwel0
This should be scriptable, perhaps it is out there on the Adobe Exchange.
- Engage0
that probably was scripted
- CphGD0
You are probably right but how would you do it in photoshop the easiest way?
- Crouwel0
the easiest way is to script it.
if you can script it should not be too hard. doing it by hand will keep you busy for the next few days.
- neue75_bold0
Photoshop? You could experiment around with step & repeat and a simultaneous scale, but not in Photoshop, use Illustrator or indesign and export as a bitmap or whatever you want it as, afterwards...
- Crouwel0
on another note:
http://www.3deep.publishing.com.…this reminds me of something.
- Nairn0
the *easiest* way to do it would be manually, in photoshop, by creating an output-size document, then an x by y 'tile' document, with your source image as a layer. Start by aligning your source image to the top-right. Take a copy, paste in other document. Move back to 'tile' document, shift source image layer by x pixels horizontally, rinse'n'repeat until you've done a full row, then shift the source layer y pixels vertically, rinse repeat etc.
I'm sure you could probably cut time by clever management - ie. only limit the width of your source tile document, do your horizontal repeats then mask off each row vertically (does that make any sense?).
*Easy*, but slow. And maddening.
Either that, or do something clever in java/action-script.
Or, rip off these guys' code, search replace the image tag, then do a screengrab. Though that'd be pretty shit for print.
- neue75_bold0
reminds me of everything and nothing...
- Crouwel0
why is that adobe exchange site in fucking flash, clicking any button makes me wait for ages.
well, i say take a look there for photoshop scripts. if you have the patience.
i personally hate that site.
- Nairn0
Thinking about it - if you did do it manually, DON'T limit the height of your source tile image.
That way, you only need do one tedious row of shifted images, then you can just group those layers, duplicate, mask, then shift up/down as required.
I think, anyway,
- CphGD0
Thanks a lot guys. You rock!
I'm gonna try some of those suggestions out and Crouwel, please let me know if you find that script...
- Crouwel0
yeah been looking, there's only apps like this:
http://homepage.mac.com/knarf/Ma…but that's been done to death.
- CphGD0
True. It looks like it could be a very simple script. Unfortunately I don't know how to do them myself : (
All this new stuff to learn all the time. Give us a break : D)
- Crouwel0
the thing is, we need to know how you call a mosaic like this.
does it have a name? it must have as this is not the first time i have seen it.
- CphGD0
Maybe "crystalized or something. It reminds me a little bit of the way you see things trough a diamond or a crystal. Don't you think?
- Nairn0
Have you tried doing this manually / by code yet? If it's just a one off, you could easily done this by now without relying on filters etc.
- UndoUndo0
record an action in photoshop using nudge and you should be able to do it
- Nairn0
shit, yeah - "duplicate layer & shift 10 pixels right" - F5, F5, F5, F5, F5, F5, F5, F5, F5, F5, F5, F5, ad nauseum.
Nail, head - Hit.
d'oh. Nice one, undoundo.