{"id":14920,"date":"2020-10-05T04:15:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T04:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=14920"},"modified":"2020-10-05T04:15:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T04:15:33","slug":"out-of-the-shadows-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2020\/10\/05\/out-of-the-shadows-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2005.08925\">Portrait Shadow Manipulation<\/a> is an interesting new technology, hot from the Google labs.<\/p>\n<p>It automatically lifts hard shadows in a head-and-shoulders portrait, these being the shadows of the sort commonly seen in pictures and videos casually made by amateurs in sunny places. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M_qYTXhzyac\">the research video<\/a> and a useful screenshot from it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/shadowrem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/shadowrem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"298\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14921\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It also removes &#8216;sweat-shine&#8217; highlights.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, if plugged into a graphics package, this technology might produce better base-portraits from which to then build comic-like art and line-art.  Since what you want for your comics &#8216;colour flats&#8217; layer, under the lineart, is a fairly &#8216;flat&#8217; lit face or body.  To which you add the shadow-render as a separate and adjustable third layer. Otherwise you&#8217;re never going to control the shadows so they display in a believable and uniform way, across the 120 panels of a 28-page comic.<\/p>\n<p>What would be even more interesting would be to go the other way with the new technique, and to &#8216;auto-cast&#8217; shadows onto fairly flat-lit faces, just by knowing where the eyes \/ mouth  \/ shoulders are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portrait Shadow Manipulation is an interesting new technology, hot from the Google labs. It automatically lifts hard shadows in a head-and-shoulders portrait, these being the shadows of the sort commonly seen in pictures and videos casually made by amateurs in sunny places. Here&#8217;s the research video and a useful screenshot from it. It also removes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automation","category-comics","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}