Facial reconstruction

[Sanda]

That's a good idea David. If Doug doesn't have the space here I know I have plenty of space on my site I could put it up there if it would tax RetouchPro's resources, I'm not sure how much space a data base like that would take.

[KevinBE]

Sounds like you guys are on to something there. I can see it now, digital body parts transplants. I have done that on limited basis myself but small things like taking a right side ear and flipping it over and attaching it to the left side of the face. That doesn't always work because the aspect ratio isn't always right, ie the person would have to be looking squarely at the camera for both ears to be exactly the same size. It is not very easy, at least for me, to do that transplant and change the size of the part and flip it etc.

[jeaniesa]

Definitely a good idea Sandra! I've had that idea too - just no time to actually do it! I think that I could at least handle cropping out the various parts when I finish working on a photo - that won't take much extra time and should give me a good base of images after some time. I'd like to include arms/shoulders/elbows and legs/knees/feet as well as facial features! (I've spent hours looking for those parts a few times as well.)

Jeanie

[Sanda]

yes I think maybe other parts of the body wouldl be good too. I remember spending hours looking for a foot. I'll start on it over the Christmas break as work will be slow and I might have more time to play with things like this. I thought men. women and children sections then sub sections for each body part might narrow searches down a bit. I already have a lot of photos that I've scanned on disks so it won't be too hard to crop the parts and put them in a table for easy access. I already have a program on my site that allows people to upload to my site so I'm sure I can adapt it to allow any of us to upload our images to the "body parts" area. I'll put it up on my website for the moment as I don't want to add to Dougs workload. But if he wants it here at RetouchPro that would be cool too.

[GOLDCOIN]

Sounds like a great idea....

Can someone give us a kinda of blueprint....of what we should do with a picture..

Like just two matching eyes, like a mask? single nose and so on. What is the largest size and smallest? Little more details would help so we can start working on this project.

[Sanda]

what I have done so far is crop a pair of eyes. then a single nose and each ear. As far as the size goes I hadn't really given that part of lot of thought I had just cropped the photos I have at their original size. give me a day or two and I'll get something together on my web site and you can all advise me on what you think would work. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as this plan is still in the embrio stage and needs development.