Creating artistic Grayscale bitmaps

[funidea]

Can anyone create these bitmaps in a blended grayscale? These drawing show a TRUE DEPTH in their shades. "Think of it as a wooden carving" Is there anyone who would be willing to create some artwork? I will pay.

[molucca]

No idea what your asking. I used the image as an eraser. Rich

[Grafixman]

Looks like a depth map from 3d objects. If you mean tweak the picture so that the dots becomes a smooth blend, how about converting the file format to grayscale first, then applying some blur? As for creating images like these, you probably would want to model them first in a 3D program, then render a depth map of the scene...
I remember something like that in another forum where the member who posted it wanted to create depth maps for stereograms. Gary Priester is the stereogram expert here, so he probably has a lot of methods for obtaining images like these...

[AndFarr]

Fun Idea,
Please optimize your images to a smaller file size before you post.
The total size of your two images is over 900k !
Anyone on a dial-up connection will be essentially locked out of this thread
( unless they have the patience of a Saint!)
Thanks,
- AF

[Grafixman]

True, although the resolution of the pics were not very high, they were .bmp files. Not a good idea when posting on the web. Better to resave them as .gif , png or jpeg.
Playing with depth map creation in Blender. Not the most elegant piece, just a couple of primitives thrown together. Then a gradient blend texture is applied to everything so that black represents parts farthest away from the camera (viewer) and white are parts nearest it.

[funidea]

Yes, Thanks for the input. I should have lowered the image size and format to .jpeg. I will do that next time.

These images are FINISHED. Im looking for someone that can create those images.

Thanks again

funidea

[molucca]

An application of transparent reflection maps to objects. Rich

[Grafixman]

Good luck on finding someone who does this professionally.
Interesting effect, though. And quite challenging to try and recreate. My guess is that the image is saved as bitmap to get the dithered pattern, then somehow reapplied as a layer on the grayscale image and perhaps the layer is given a soft light blend mode. Don't have Photoshop, but I tried it with Photopaint and got the result below. The smaller image is something I was playing around in Corel Draw. I exported it to Photopaint, created a duplicate, changed to color mode to bitmap then copied and pasted it back on the original image and changed the layer blend mode to soft light. To get back the gray shades.
Or perhaps saving the smooth grayscale as a dithered gif file would do the same trick? Didn't try that...

[funidea]

Im trying to find SMOOTH grayscale NOT dithered

Thanks

[funidea]

Here is another try at another image. Can anyone create something similiar?