Aloha all y'all... and our favorite Latin lurker, et al.,
I've come across a very intriguing piece of software that was introduced in FEB of this year (2021) by MyHeritage...
find it here:
https://blog.myheritage.com/category/myheritage-products/
Their colorizing of old b/w photos is not sensational enough... they've taken it one step further and can now
animate old b/w still photos... how cool is that?
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Now, my question is:
have any of you ever run into any video software packages that can do that to old photos?
I think I'd pay a few dollars for a product that could do that sort of thing to my old photos.
Well, I could do that there, I imagine, download the piece of video and then crop it to remove
the logo... they ackowledge it is still my photo/video, so I imagine that removing/cropping
the logo is permissible... I'll go ask to verify.
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I'm just curious IF any of you have heard or seen something like it in the retail marketplace?
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I went to the site and played with it on two images...
... meh ...
Upon further research, it's not such an amazing trick.
1 - It zooms in on the head(s) in the image and animates just that part.
The final result is just the head without any of the other parts of the image...
with a watermark (as was to be expected).
2 - It turned my head - so because my right ear was hidden from view -
when my head turned, my ear was missing... I could simply choose another
animation that will not turn my head so dramatically, I suppose...
... (it was the default animation for most dramatic effect).
3 - I imagine that I could simply chroma key my head into the proper spot
and zoom to proper proportion on the body... and crop the watermark, as well.
4. More research required ... great first attempt, though. I'm intrigued...
BUT... and what a big butt it is... not as much as I was initially.
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Until that time...