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  • Created: Jul 24, 2006, 9:14 pm
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Upload a picture to the site and either to use the free service and choose from a set of templates to have your photo automatically turned into an illustration, or the paid service where a human artist will do it based on a style that you select from a list of examples. It would be primarily useful for bloggers who want to put a sketch of themselves next to their entries, just like Wall Street Journalists put next to their articles. Also useful for discussion boards, messenger profiles, and so on.

I thought of this idea when I was...

... looking at a really cool sketch of a professional blogger and realizing just about every blogger would want something like that.


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Aidan
Aidan Posted: August 1, 2006, 5:40 pm

Although perhaps not as an online service. http://gimp.org or http://www.imagemagick.org both have the ability to transform an image into an illustration of some kind.

Also, plenty of places help you find an artist if that's what you're after (e.g. http://www.paintingsdirect.com/)

It's not a bad idea, just pretty marginal when it comes to making money.

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branchcut Posted: August 5, 2006, 3:10 pm

RE: Aidan. While Gimp, Photoshop, and Imagemagick all have various filters of some sort to help convert a photograph to an illustration, none of them offer a simple no-install web-based solution. Moreover, the automatic conversion of a photograph of someone's face to a nice looking illustration would most likely need to be a customized and complicated filter chain, and not just a single filter. Eg, the first filter would be an "edge detector", to recognize the outline of the person's face, and then it would go from there to turn it into something "cartoonish" with variable settings to match a template. As far as http://www.paintingsdirect.com, that has significant overlap with this idea, and should be leveraged as an affiliate if possible.

 

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