Making A Realistic Flag Liquid pixels - wrapping pixels over undulating silk The layer blend modes are an effective way of merging or blending a pattern or graphic with a three-dimensional form. By using the blend modes the flag in this project can be modified to respect the color and tonality of the undulating silk beneath it. The highlights and shadows that give the silk its shape can however be further utilized to wrap or bend the flag so that it obeys the material’s shape and sense of volume. This can be achieved by using the Displace filter in conjunction with a ‘displacement map’. The ‘map’ defines the contours to which the flag must conform. The final effect can be likened to ‘shrink-wrapping’ the flag to the 3-D form of the undulating silk. How it works : The brightness level of each pixel in the map directs the filter to shift the corresponding pixel of the selected layer in a horizontal or vertical plane. The principle on which this technique works is that of ...
Overview Frontline OEE is an easy-to-use, uncomplicated, situation analysis and problem solving tool. It can be used to measure and analyse performance in any production or manufacturing environment. It will track the Six Big Losses and calculate Availability, Performance Rate, Quality Rate – and OEE. More As cost pressures increase and global competition bites into profits, no manufacturer set on long term survival can ignore the OEE methodology. OEE is an essential strand of the Lean Manufacturing strategy and the de facto manufacturing performance metric. Its use enables resolute managers to boost production volumes and business returns without capital expenditure on new equipment – by ’sweating’ their existing production assets. OEE enables the production bottlenecks and pinch points to be verified without question, the prime reasons for losses to be positively identified and ranked – and the actions that will deliver the most rapid and advantageous gains decided. What yo...
If you have managed to live without it up until now, what makes it so fantabulous/damned hot that you need to place it at the top of your software wish list? Photoshop Lightroom has had somewhat of an identity crisis amongst the general population of photographers since its release in early 2007. The Adobe engineers built it to fill a gap in the Photoshop family of products ( Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Elements being the other two family members) but many amongst the photographic community have not been able to identify its primary task to make it the ‘must have’ product that Adobe hoped it would become for all digital photographers. Adobe would like to think that no photographer could imagine living without this product, but in reality, most digital photographers have survived without it for years and question why thy need it now. Much of the confusion for many photographers exists because the feature set of each of the Photoshop products overlap, e.g. they all allow...
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