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):



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.

Nikolai wrote:

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

Uhm, thanks..

aporia wrote:

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.

Hope somebody else does remember:-)
Cheers!

Stormdancing

Nikolai wrote:

Hope somebody else does remember:-)
Cheers!

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.

Before


After


(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.

Nikolai wrote:

Hope somebody else does remember:-)
Cheers!

Nikolai

Dana,
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...

Nikolai

Thanks!

aporia wrote:

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

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

dkoyanagi

Hi Nik

Here's what I came up with.

Original photo.




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:



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



Here's the result:



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

Nikolai

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









HTH

Nikolai

Dan,
Thank you so much for your time and effort to help!

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

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.