I have a wireframe image of a head, ala UVMapper. I have a close-up photograph of a head. I need to "stretch and pull" the photo over/onto the wireframe map, so that it renders with the features in the correct places in Poser. Does anyone know what the best software might be for achieving this? (Ideally, something that would allow some kind of 2d morph of the photo image, using reference dots for aligning the features). The wireframe map must not, of course, be allowed to change. If nothing currently does this... wouldn`t it be sooo cool?

Photo Shop, Paint Shop Pro and Corel Photo Paint all will allow you to stretch and re-proportion an image. I'm sure there are lots of other apps, free and reasonably priced, that will also do the same thing. Generally speaking, keep in mind that the pricyer(sp?) the app, the more features it's likely to have that will let you stretch, shrink, re-proportion, adjust color, contrast, etc. of selected local areas of your image.

If you have P4 then Painter3D came with it. You can use that. When aligning start with the eyes and lips. Try to scale the image so that the eyes and lips on the photo line up with the lines on your template. The reposition everything else by copying and pating selections and blending the lines. Only do one side of the face. Then you can copy that and flip that part for the other half.

I just bought Amorphium - it appears that this type of thing can be done in it. Using a digitized picture of a head, planar map it onto a sphere, then modify the sphere (using the image as a guide) with the variety of brushes & tools that Amorphium has. Masking was also used. Polygon counts can be changed in this prog. The program cost me about $63 - after shipping/handling/etc.

Great info guys... thanks. Looking at Painter 3D right now ;-) Amorphium sounds useful too.

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Ulead Morph Studio 1.0 would be capable of doing what you woul like to do. It is good for creating either still's or video morphs but is set up for 2d morphing only. Though I think in the long run you would pe happiest with Photoshop or PhotoPaint. Don't forget you can get photopaint free for Linux and CA will be giving a free version for win 95 with next months upcoming magazine. P.S. Have you given up on working on the realm as you have not responded to the last few emails?

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Look at the Japanese prog... HexaSuper

The problem is similar to "barrel distortions" of pixels at the edges. That is, they become disproportionatly distorted compared to the center. The same problem is similar in panoramic images. There are a few 2D morphers that can apply a corrective distortion but the learning curve & trial & error may not be worth your while. Look around the links at the PTStitcher page to find some great free apps & more info: http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/

Before you go off buying Amorphium, understand that it does NOT export the texture maps along with ".obj" format model files.

Have you looked at 'Still To Real' software in Renderosity store. Looks like just what you need.