I was interested in working out the details out of creating a new method of stitching face textures together. Using two profiles, two three quarter both right and left and one front on. In less than two hours I produced these three ruffed-in face textures.

Mind you they all still need many hours work yet but, it's amazing what you can do in a very short time with an inexpensive digital camera.

Wow, all three are winners, did you have experience with morphing before as well? These are fabulous. Please don't pretty them up, begging you on my knees, please. We have so many pretty perfect faces and so very few real people, these are like jewels. By the way, what on earth are you gonna do for the rest of the bodies? I don't think your convenience store is gonna make it that convenient. More questions-- what camera are you using? The top face has the most incredible almost irridescent coloring I've ever seen. Very intensely beautiful. Emily

The camera I used is a plain old HP Photosmart 318 ($199.99) the lady your referring at the top was taken in a restaurant and she is also half Native American (nice lady). I have lighted her up quite a lot and my lights are a little high as well in the render. There are hardly any custom morphs used in this other than good old standard Vic - the bum maps make the difference. Since I have their images from all sides I am going to try to make them as close to what they realty look like in real life. Here they look kind of hard and harsh but, like I said they need a lot of work yet.

Ditto...Ditto...Ditto...with Emily......these are fabulous!

good job, nice to see you enjoying it too 8) what is your camera?

April, look up - it's the HP Photosmart 318.

Well, this absolutely positively proves one thing-- Vicky does not have to look like Vicki, nor is her only escape the collagen lipped beauties in the galleries. I love em and use them too, but oh, do we need variety sooooo much. These are a breath of fresh air. I think you have just done the sales of HP photosmart some good.:) Emily

Wow... How do you make the bump maps from the photos? I tried once for a bodytexture, but the results were not as pleasing...

I have tried to take digitalphotos, but it always ends up no good. How do you do it? What kind of lightning do you use? -daylight... flash... lamp...? Where do you compose the face? In Photoshop, or (as I belive I have heard you can) in Poser5 ?

Are you using P5 and importing your texture in the cloth room? Its something I want to try but the face room is a toy. 512 res ends up looking like a bad video game avatar. Your texture has potential. I just got a Nikon 5700 and would like to try it out for textures. Great excuse to have models stop by huh?

Looks wonderful! One thing that bothers me is the distortion of the face.... I think a nice 105 mm focal length on the face camera in Poser would do wonders :)

Papu..I agree. With the right f stop and proper fill, key, backliting ...ZOW. But for what took the picture its really quit good. Papu are you into photography? You must be because you mention the classic 105 portrait lens. Question for you Canon or Nikon glass.

Lapis, I'm seriously into photography now (thanks to a very inspiring teacher), still a newbie though :) Just remembered the 105 mm thing from one of the photo classes (quite proud of myself for actually learning SOMETHING ;))

I am just rekindling my passion too. I used to be quite into it through highschool and beyond before I got into radio. I find digital cameras to be really fun. There instantaneous and with the right software rivals any dark room.(not having to breath nasty chemicals is a bonus too. Do you frequent the photography forum here. I just started too and find the people there very friendly.

Yes, I've just recently started reading the photography forum here :) I can't afford a digital camera at the moment so I'm relying on my old analog system - I have an Olympus om-30 and a cardboard box pin-hole camera which I'm quite fond of ;)

That reminds me that I had a hand me down brownie when I was 5. Like many 5 year old boys, I disassembled it to see how it worked and like most 5 year old boys I couldn't put it back together again. All the kings horses and men had no luck either. This will date me but I purchased my first 35 mil in highschool for working on the yearbook. It was and still is a Canon AE1. You can almost drive nails with that camera. To this day it works like it did from day one. Check out DP Review if you haven't already. Tons of info on that site. Their forums are awesome too.

Thanks for the tip, Lapis, I will take a look at that site.

not having to breath nasty chemicals is a bonus too .......................................................... Maybe, but if a woman wore glacial acetic acid as a cologne I would probably ask her to marry me. BTW glacial acetic acid is stop bath. Oh I almost forgot great job on the textures, I also have an hp photosmart, but mine is the 315.

GROINGRINDER, lol, I've had similar thoughts about stop bath... Don't know if it would be very .. um.. healthy to wear is as a perfume but it's still one of my favourite smells ;)

lol yeah, i didn't see that, thanks ST :) $199, that's not bad. i gotta try using mine... ever see someone with defined pores and lots of fine and not so fine wrinkles and state at them and think wow, that skin would be beautiful in poser! lol i have a friend like that but haven't gotten around to asking her. now how to put it nicely... 8|

i really like the lips on the first one. so much detail in them. all three look great.

I am going to answer these question in point form.

Q: The camera?
A: HP Photosmart 318 ($199.99) settings are about 50mm

Q: What kind of Lighting for the camera?
A: Just the flash of the camera and natural light of the location ...I am telling you seriously they are just snap shots - each portrait (5 shots) took me about 2 min to do.

Q: The bump maps?
A: Yes the bump maps where created from the base images red channel found in most any photo program then turned to gray scale then contrast and levels adjusted,then imported into Poser 4

Q: What were the procedures of creating the texture?
A: By over lapping and feathering and blending the five images. Making sure that the nose, the corners of the eyes and mouth over lay perfectly (distortion may be necessary to line them up). See Image above

Q: What render settings did you use in Poser 4?
A: Face camera standard 35mm and lights

i think that you need to put your last message into a Tutorial as is simple and sweet! Wonderful job and now off to create the bump maps with the red that should definitely help my face designs look like they should!

You missed two questions for those of us who already own a digital camera. What's the pixel resolution setting of the camera? Assuming a tripod, a camera turned 90 degrees to capture a tall strip of face and a model sitting on a rotating stool, what was the distance between camera and model?

I'm bookmarking this thread---just got my first digital camera, a Canon (SureShot? something like that) and have used it on scenery, but had no idea you could get such good face pics without a studio set up. You've inspired me!

Kewl. I think my camera's got similar res (RCA 4.3Mpx gotten half off at OfficeMax).

Q:What's the pixel resolution setting of the camera? A:The pixel resolution settings on the camera are broken down into the following. I normally use "Better" this was what was used for the textures used for the images above. Good 592 x 400 Better 1792 X 1200 with medium compression Best 1792 X 1200 with low compression Q: Assuming a tripod was used? A: For the textures in the Images above... nope hand held. The camera has auto focus and auto light metering and will use the right amount of flash for the lighting situation. I had the model shuffle or twist around a pivot point at the bottom of their feet so the lighting would not change for me. Q:What was the distance frome the camera to the subject? A:I filled the entire frame (at portrait) with the persons face - bottom of chin to just over the top of the hair line. Hint: Do the profile images first - for it is wider than the others and scale the others relatively.

I got a digi camera on my Toshiba Freecard from that class action Toshiba thingie. Wow was that great. They sent me $485 bucks in a check and $225 worth of free stuff. Sure brought the price of my laptop down when you think about it. Yeah, having a ball with the camera and its really the way to go.