carpente@cpsin2.cps.msu.edu (David Carpenter) (03/06/91)
I am interested in putting together a system that will be able to be used at
car shows, boat shows on the water, portraits of people to put on T-shirts
by the use of a THERMAL-WAX printer system.
The problem is the input system. I would like to use a camera system that will
input a color image in at least 300 dpi. It is my understanding that a super
VHS camcorder such as Sony will digitize a picture in the same language as the
MAC. I have also herd that a Panasonic single shot digital hand held camera is
effective and may not be able to use other lenses. The last method is to use a
scanner and scan photos that I have taken with a 35mm camera.
Of course price is a concern, and I would like to stay under $3,500 if at all
possible. Does anyone have any suggestions?
At this time I would be using an Apple Machintosh IICi with 4 megs ram and
an 80 meg hard drive as the system to be hooked up to. The software that was
suggested to me was Letraset Color Studio and Design Studio. Is there an IBM or
compatible with software that would do a better job?
I would appreciate any suggestions. Dave Carpenter
carpente@cpsin2.cps.msu.eduscottsc@microsoft.UUCP (Scott SCHULTZ) (03/07/91)
In article <1991Mar5.203806.4456@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> carpente@cpsin2.cps.msu.edu (David Carpenter) writes: >I am interested in putting together a system that will be able to be used at >car shows, boat shows on the water, portraits of people to put on T-shirts >by the use of a THERMAL-WAX printer system. I recently made a posting along similar lines but it never appeared locally so I suppose our spooler ate it somehow. My interest stems from an outfit we ran into on vacation called _Amazing Pictures_. What they do is use a video camera to put your face into a bitmap of someone else's body. Typically, the photos are of sexy women, bodybuilding hunks, sports figures or movie actors. It's interesting to watch because you see the video input realtime. That is, the digitized photo overlays the camera video like a mask. You see the video through the "hole" where your face is inserted. The software was also capable of zooming (this may actually have been in the camera, but I thought I saw some keystrokes take care of it) and tint adjustment. Once the subject's face is positioned just right, the software freezes the subject, fills in around the edges of the face and VOILA! Your face is on Arnold Scharzenegger's or Miss April's body. The picture was then printed out on a printer as a standard t-shirt type iron-on. The picture is full-color, printed one color at a time. Presumably, this means that the software knows how to do three-color-separations. I thought that the printer was pretty neat; maybe it was the THERMAL-WAX printer that David mentions above. The employee's knew nothing about the system other than how to run it. I'm looking for any information that folks have about what hardware and software might be commercially available to replicate this sort of procedure. Cost is not an issue (well, not much). I'm semi-seriously thinking about this as an experimental business so I'll appreciate any input I can get. I've included comp.multimedia and comp.misc as likely sources of information. Please direct followups to comp.misc. Comp.graphics is devoted more to technical discussions and this falls more under what I consider to be miscellaneous. :-)