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Photo Blend 3D is uniquely designed software to quickly combine parts of different photos into a new 2D photo montage or composition as well as to easily create 3D stereogram and anaglyph 3D images.

With its original features such as automatic color adjustment it will give you more time to focus on the creative and artistic aspect of the whole process.

And the best part of it is that you will have tremendous fun doing it.

 

 

Photo BLEND 3D

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Photo Blend $45.00
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Overview

Overview

Photo Blend 3D is a new generation of photo montage software, designed from the ground up for the purpose of combining objects from several photographs into a single composition.

You can export the final composition not only as a normal 2D photo but you can very easy make a 3D stereogram and anaglyph images as well.
Photo Blend employs few fantastic features that are unique among photo editors:

Tolerant Masks
The biggest problem with combining different pictures is to isolate the object from one photo so it looks perfectly seamless on top of another. Normally the mask for that has to be very precise and pixel perfect.
Photo Blend makes this task much easier with its very forgiving self-adjusting masks. Photo Blend will hide the imperfection and make the image snap into the scene as if it was always part of it.

Auto-Adjusting Colors
Combining different pictures taken in different light conditions, time of the day and different cameras? This would be a lot of work in any photo editor, but not in Photo Blend.


Photo Blend interface, combining photos that would normally hardly fit together.

Photo Blend will automatically adjust the lights and colors of the objects to visually snap into new composition even if the sources are very different.
This goes as far as grabbing ambient light from the scene. And all is automatic, you simply don't have to worry about it.

The ability to automatically color adjust the objects into nearly any scene can be easily tested by simply loading new backgrounds:

3D stereogram and 3D anaglyph

 No other editor comes even close to the easy interactive way of creating 3D stereograms and anaglyphs. Just switch to 3D mode, put on your 3D red-cyan glasses and you can directly and visually adjust the third dimensions of your composition.
Tip: Make your personal greeting cards in a 3D style! You can buy the paper 3D glasses in bulk for few cents each and simply include them in the envelope.

The 3D anaglyph above took only a few minutes to produce from the original 2D composition. You can export it both as red-cyan anaglyph or side-by-side JPS file for use on 3D TV's.

Plenty of Advanced Tools as well

Photo Blend grows with your abilities. It has all the advanced tools necessary to create believable composition or montages, even to the little details like creating artificial shadows that follow the scene perspective.

Complete virtual stage light studio

The new Stage Lights feature allows you to add artificial lights to your scene and completely change its feel.
All object colors will automatically react to the lights in a very unique "Photo-Blend way" almost as if they are 3D objects.

Full Resolution Export

For editing speed, Photo Blend works in Draft Mode during designing process. When it is time to export, Photo Blend will repeat all the steps on the original size images to create full resolution output.

 

The aim of Photo Blend is to create quick photo compositions and having fun doing it.

What's New

Current Version:: 1.5

Version 1.5

  • Photo Blend is now Photo Blend 3D with the addition of 3D Anaglyph mode to extract the composition into third dimension

Version 1.1.1

  • Bugfix: Creating new project will not delete old Stage Lights

Version 1.1

  • added Stage Lights, lighting system

Version 1.0

  • shortcuts for tools
  • displaying directional arrows for curves and selections
  • Fuzzy Expand and Fuzzy Shrink tools for wrapping mask around the edges.
  • Remove Specks effect for mask
  • loads auto rotation flag for jpeg sources
  • Load Manually option in the Browser
  • accepts drag and drop from explorer


Quick Mash-up from various paintings


Features

Designed for a purpose
Photo Blend was designed from the ground up to be a photo composition software. All the tools are made specifically to help with the task.

Forgiving Mask
Virtually half of the software is dedicated to masking, but even though we have all the classic masking tools like Magic wand, Mask from Curve or Mask from Hue, simply painting the mask with a brush close to the edge of object is usually the best start. Photo Blend is very forgiving. It is actually possible to fully transfer for one photo to another even the finest strands of hair as demonstrated in this example.

Auto-Color Fit
No need to color correct the images so they have same colors. Photo Blend will automatically do that for you. And it is fully dynamic, as you move the object around the ambient light of the scene is recalculated for best color fit.

Fully Non-destructive
Everything in Photo Blend can be adjusted at any time and then changed back at any other time.

Logical UI
Designing Photo Blend from scratch has the benefit of not following classic photo editor paradigms but to best fit the interface for the task. There is no need to hunt in menus, all the most used tools are right on the interface divided into two logical parts - the Composition Mode and the masking Source Mode.

Extra tools for added fun
Making composition should be fun and we added tools like Liquify to change the expression on ones face or to create a whole caricature of a person.

Working on Draft, exporting in Full
To speed things up, the designing process is all done on a easy to work with Draft images. When it is time to export Photo Blend will repeat all the steps on a full size images to create the best looking output.

Live Tools
Using Magic Wand or Mask From Hue creates live mask where you can visually set the tolerance of the tool after it is used. You can use Push/Pull tool to move and shape the mask as if it was a clay.

Shadow Objects
Creating believable composition without making correct object shadows is just half of the job. From Simple shadows that can be added by moving a slider to a complex object shadows that can be shaped with regards to perspective, Photo Blend has it all.

Stage Lights
A complete virtual lighting system to add lights to your composition and change the feel of it.

Color Adjustments
Each object has set of non-destructive color adjustments as well.

3D Anaglyph creation and export
The simple 3D mode allows you interactively set the depth of the objects and backdrops.

Step by step guide is included
The PDF guide is included and you can download it free as EPUB for iPad or Android tablets.

System Requirements

Minimum System Requirements

Windows version

  • Microsoft® Windows® 7, Vista or XP (32-bit or 64-bit editions)
  • 1 GHz processor or better
  • 4 GB of RAM
  • 1 GB of free disk space
  • Minimum screen resolution: 1024 x 768 (highly recommended higher resolution)

 

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Platform: XP, Vista, W7 (32/64 bit) 15 MB

Windows Version: 1.5 (01/OCT/2012)

This file works for Windows XP, Vista 32/64 bit and W7 32/64 bit

Note: Photo Blend 3D 1.5 is a free update for all previous Photo Blend users. Just download the version above and install over your old version.

OSXMAC Virtualized version

  • You can build self contained virtualized OSX version with Wineskin WS7Wine1.3.28

 

Note: In the OSX virtualized version the drive Z: is mapped to your Macintosh HD
For example to find Pictures go to My Computer, Z:/Users/<Your Name>/Pictures

 

"This is Photo Blend" Guide

  • Adobe PDF: A printable comprehensive PDF guide is included with the installation.  Look in the Windows start menu in Photo Blend

 

 

Video

general workflow
Stage Lights

A great companion

Photo Blend is also a great companion for our Dynamic Auto Painter software.

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Create a quick photo montage and then turn it into a painting.