Going beyond with PhotoLab

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like this ?

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or that ?

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PL8_move_eyes.zip (561,3 Ko)

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Aaaarrggh!!! Frightening.

Let me take you step by step through how I did it. First start with the eye as it was before changing


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Then carefully select only the part of the eyeball that is visible - try to keep it as symmetrical as possible


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At the moment, the source has been selected from somewhere on the cheek. This is automatic and it will need to be moved


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Using the frame and horizontal reverse tools, I now get the white of the eye on the left instead of the right.

But the eye needs tilting to match the orientation of its target position, so I grab one of the corner handles and carefully rotate and simultaneously move it to a suitable position


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And the final result


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I spent most of this morning at a Glaucoma Society of India function; today, Sunday, was the final day. I was then “mike-napped” and told in two hours I would be going from Pondicherry, India to Madurai, India. Packed my gear, had a quick lunch, and found the car for my roughly six-hour trip.

Arrived, had a quick dinner, but need to un-pack, and complete editing today’s photos.

Sometime tomorrow I will respond to all the questions up above.

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Mark,

If you wanted to show what is possible with PhotoLab exclusively, the result doesn’t serve the purpose. It will not further stimulate new comers interest in this debatable product. But being a disappointed user of PL7, I welcome this presentation of an alien with sunburned eyes and skin. Marvelous. I didn’t think it was possible. But now I appreciate Darktable even more.

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PhotoLab excusively? I never said anything like that. The presence of an alien with sunburned eyes and skin? What does that even mean?

I’m sorry you’re a disappointed user of PhotoLab 7. In any case, however, this effort was done several years ago in a much earlier version, PhotoLab 4.

The whole thing was just an experiment to see what one could accomplish with a white foam head using PhotoLab in an unconventional way. That is all. I was not trying to pass it off as looking like a normal human.

From your comments, I’m afraid you completely missed the point I was trying make in this exercise. No matter.

Mark

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Of course. I can’t read.

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And you are both right :slight_smile:

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Thank you.