Anyone who has tried in Blender to match the camera settings of a background image may have heard of a Blender add-on called Blam. The author of this add-on is retiring Blam as he has written a replacement, stand alone program, that can export the camera calibration data to Blender. The standalone program is called fSpy. Matching the camera settings of a reference photo is something that I have to do frequently. When I tried fSpy it provided a perfect calibration solution first go. First impressions for me is that this program is a must have if you need to calibrate the Blender camera to match a reference image.

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Very valuable - thanks for the heads-up!

It is a very cool tool. Thank you.

Looks promising. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing keppel

I totally agree, this is a must-have :)

I created a couple of objects that I need to render along with the reference photo. But only the objects are rendering. How do I do to get the photo to render too?

Thanks guys!

I came across this free tutorial by Chipp Walters on Gumroad "fSpy Camera Matching Tutorial for Blender" he also makes some interesting free and pay add-ons for Blender I can not add a link here to his Gumroad page but you can do a search on Gumroad for his tutorial or by his name should fine it easily he also does have a You Tube channel "Chipp Walters"

Ohhhh, this is looking VERY interesting. How did I not notice this when keppel first posted??? ~shakes head~

Oh and thanks for the link to the tutorial Lobo.

Thank you Lobo. And another tutorial by CGMatter
Blender 2.8 Camera mapping (projection) tutorial

Thanks yarp I added that one to my library there are two other paid tutorials on Udemy by Abdelilah Hamdani both go into using Fspy modeling, texturing and EEVEE rendering again sorry can not post direct links due to TOS but should be able to find them easily and would wait till Udemy is running one of their weekly sales you might be able to get the courses for as little as $10 or $12 currently they are at $15

Thanks for the details. You know I am "tutorialing" on Blender a lot those days. Watching a ton of videos and practicing on small, easy, models, learning shortcuts and tricks.

Would look forward to seeing anything you might share yarp I started on a written tutorial sometime ago but health and issues with my eyes have put a hold on finishing up that project regretfully

Sure, I will share. That is the goal, I will continue the tutorials another month and start modeling my own stuff in July. I have no idea what I will do first but obviously this will be something easy like furnitures. Oh, you have eyes problem. I understand your concern, this is unfortunate when you are fond of CG. btw I purchased that monitor with the IPS screen and compared to my other monitors it is really relaxing to look at. Compared to a one year old Iiyama with a rather bright sceen and neat resolution, that one is a bit dull but I am happy with it.

I think prop modeling like furniture and such is really over looked by many tutorial makers not every one wants to be a character modeler I prefer learning good techniques for modeling props and such to add and build up a scene. Yes I got hit with bells palsy last summer second time in a lifetime but seems this second time my left eye really was damaged and even a year later it has not recovered full and even with new glasses still have difficult seeing and depth perception is totally off but one of the fun things of getting old lol

The other day I was looking for a vacuum and despite having a huge poser props library I could find just one in my collection. There are probably others I missed somewhere, but it shows that there's still something to do on utility objects alone.
This is btw what PoserWorld had in their catalogue. That website had so many original props

Yes I remember PoserWorld been reading a few articles and how to use kit bashing to create parts and creating a library of your own that you can access right from Blender with some of the asset manger add-ons that look like could potentially be not only useful but can be distributed like asset packs