beonalert opened this issue on Dec 25, 2003 ยท 14 posts
beonalert posted Thu, 25 December 2003 at 2:24 AM
Is it true that Photoshop can convert jpg to bump files that can be used in Poser? If so, does anyone know what the process is? Thanks!
mateo_sancarlos posted Thu, 25 December 2003 at 2:02 PM
GraphicConverter (Mac) can do it, but Poser can do it as well, so why bother?
beonalert posted Thu, 25 December 2003 at 4:11 PM
Well, I'm having problems with a particular jpg to bump conversion with my JADE character. There is one jpg it just won't convert. i don't know why.
mateo_sancarlos posted Fri, 26 December 2003 at 2:24 PM
I just looked at the Photoshop 7 help index, and the keywords bump or bum don't appear in the context of bump maps. If you don't have GraphicConverter, then try resaving the jpg as tiff in some app like Photoshop or PSP. Maybe there's some problem with the original jpg that Poser can't handle. Like it's over 4096 square or it's progressive or it's corrupted somehow.
nomuse posted Fri, 26 December 2003 at 5:09 PM
Open the suspect JPEG in PhotoShop and re-save -- even, re-save as PICT. Then point Poser to it again and let Poser do the conversion to BUM.
nomuse posted Fri, 26 December 2003 at 5:10 PM
Oops. Sorry, mateo. I didn't read your post closely enough. Like he said!
mateo_sancarlos posted Fri, 26 December 2003 at 7:13 PM
Hey, no sweat, nomuse! If we said it twice, then it MUST be true!
wyrwulf posted Fri, 26 December 2003 at 9:03 PM
Someone posted a Photoshop action to do this at PoserPros. I don't remember who or which forum.
artistheat posted Sat, 27 December 2003 at 7:46 AM
Do you want to have a .bum extention or just make a Jpeg into a bump map....If you have Poser 4 that will convert jpegs into .bum....But if you want a bump.jpeg...for poser pro and up....well first of course load your jpeg then go to IMAGE-MODE-GRAYSCALE then go to IMAGE-ADJUSTMENTS-BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST then adjust Contrast between +38 to +42 then go to IMAGE-ADJUSTMENTS-INVERT and that's it, now your jpeg is a bump map you can use in poser:)
beonalert posted Sat, 27 December 2003 at 2:39 PM
Actually, the problem I am having is that Poser doesn't seem to properly convert the .jpg files to bump files for use with my Jade character. Poser WILL convert other .jpgs with no problem, but there is something about the Jade files that it doesn't like. It will prompt me to convert, and then it will go through the motions of converting, but it never actually creates a .bum file. I hate to spend $30 on an image converter program when I shouldn't have to.
nomuse posted Sat, 27 December 2003 at 3:36 PM
GraphicConverter is shareware. But I betcha you will send the $30 after trying it. Oops. That's the Mac ap. I don't know what you PC people use.
wyrwulf posted Sat, 27 December 2003 at 6:42 PM
You could have someone else give it a try with Poser.
beonalert posted Mon, 05 January 2004 at 12:40 PM
GraphicConverter is shareware? When I went to the site, it looked like you HAD to register for $30. Maybe I misread the terms. I got the link via Rabbit Hole. Is there another link I should try?
chriscox posted Sun, 11 January 2004 at 6:48 AM
Attached Link: http://www.poserpros.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6380
Hi there, I'm the one who wrote the Photoshop 6 Action. You can get it at Poser Pros (http://www.poserpros.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6380). Also in that thread I explain how the action works. Chris Cox