Week 1 cont. - Lining Up The Images

The next step was to take my 2 images and align them together. Using the tutorials, the first step was going to be to eliminate some of the distortion in the pictures. This can be caused by the lack of quality in the camera, movement in the camera when the picture was taken or many other reasons. Photoshop allows this to be done very simply. By using the Lens Distortion tool, it allowed me to give some extra detail to the picture to eliminate any distortion that was caused from the camera. The big problem with doing this is that it would be re-sizing my images and therefore I would need to be certain that the images are re-aligned together and the same size.

After I had eliminated some of the lens distortion from both images, I then needed to ensure that they lined up with each other. This would be crucial when it came to actually building the head as these images would be used as reference planes to build from. I moved both images onto 1 layer on Photoshop and erased some of the unnecessary background.

The next step was to make sure that the pictures lined up. The easiest and most effective way of doing this in Photoshop was to use the rulers provided. This would allow me to pick out key parts of the face and ensure that they were lined up. This took some time to do and I noticed it was quite tough for all the people in my class mainly because when you got 1 key feature lined up, such as the eyes, it meant the others were not lined up. It took some rotating, moving and transforming in Photoshop to get them aligned as much as possible.