Horizontal Blinds FX anybody?

[Nikolai]

I'm looking for a filter/action/script for PS (CS2) that would allow me doing something like this (source is on the left, target is on the right):

http://nik.smugmug.com/photos/60452057-M.jpg

This picture was produced with the help of the test app I wrote, but it's nowhere near the performance or the quality I'd like to have (what would you expect from a program written in under an hour :dunno :-). And it only operates in black and white (not even gray), while I'm looking for color support, too.
But I hope it helps to explain what is the effect I'm looking for...
Thanks!

[aporia]

I know I did something like this without a whole lot of effort with PS CS a while ago. I'll keep searching my brain but I know it was a fairly simple technique. I discovered it early on in my PS learning curve. Perhaps someone else has easy access to it and will pass it on. :ear

I'm looking for a filter/action/script for PS (CS2) that would allow me doing something like this (source is on the left, target is on the right) . . .

[Nikolai]

I know I did something like this without a whole lot of effort with PS CS a while ago. I'll keep searching my brain but I know it was a fairly simple technique. I discovered it early on in my PS learning curve. Perhaps someone else has easy access to it and will pass it on. :ear

Hope somebody else does remember:-)
Cheers!:1drink

[Stormdancing]

Hope somebody else does remember:-)
Cheers!:1drink Well here's my shot at it.
If this is something like what your looking for, I'll try to show you what I did.
If not, oh well, I played. :D

Before
http://www.heartsfire.com/Photos/albums/userpics/Blind%20B4.jpg

After
http://www.heartsfire.com/Photos/albums/userpics/Blind%20Try.jpg

(I changed it, blinds too wide.)

[Stormdancing]

Here's an action to download called TV Scanlines.
Maybe you can play with that and get it to your liking.

http://user.fundy.net/morris/downloads/TVLines.atn

[aporia]

I'll check for you in the morning, Nikolai, and see if I can scare it up.:scratch

Hope somebody else does remember:-)
Cheers!:1drink

[Nikolai]

I appreciate the effort, but if in case you didn't notice, I was going for a *slightly* different effect. I needed the H-line change its *width* according to the source image. In my app it was done by an algorithm that could be best described as "running average". I changed the width of the target line according to the content of a "view" area in the source. Once again, it was done VERY roughly: rough metrica, no weighting, no color, no nothing.
Still looking...:scratch

[Nikolai]

I'll check for you in the morning, Nikolai, and see if I can scare it up.:scratch

I'll wait for the findings...:-)!

[dkoyanagi]

Hi Nik

Here's what I came up with.

Original photo.

http://dkoyanagi.smugmug.com/photos/60501446-L.jpg


I created a "blind pattern" file. I first created a 800x25 blank image and used gradient fill to create the first "blind". Then I cut and pasted the blind multiple times into a 800x600 image to create this:

http://dkoyanagi.smugmug.com/photos/60501445-L.jpg

Then I added this file as a new layer to the original image, and set the blend mode to Darken:

http://dkoyanagi.smugmug.com/photos/60502245-L.jpg

Here's the result:

http://dkoyanagi.smugmug.com/photos/60501441-L.jpg

Is this the effect you're looking for? Hope this helps.

[Nikolai]

Just to clarify what I'm looking for:
the same simplistics app,
different source image,
various grid/avereging parameters:

http://nik.smugmug.com/photos/60505033-M.jpg

http://nik.smugmug.com/photos/60505040-M.jpg

http://nik.smugmug.com/photos/60505042-M.jpg

http://nik.smugmug.com/photos/60505046-M.jpg

HTH

[Nikolai]

Thank you so much for your time and effort to help!:thumb

But I'm looking for something that would affect the width of the grid.:dunno

[Stormdancing]

Dan,

Yours looks very nice. Basically the same thing I did but I did not think to use a gradient fill. I'll have to try that. Even if it's not what Nik was looking for, I still like this one.