{"id":5231,"date":"2010-09-28T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5231"},"modified":"2010-09-26T02:53:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T00:53:59","slug":"faking-an-arial-photo-from-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5231","title":{"rendered":"Faking an arial photo from 1939"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I break in today with something special that I think some of you might like. I needed a picture from the air of the ruins of Cardiff Castle, in June 1939 for my adventure Wicked Times &#8211; The Summer Of &#8217;39.<\/p>\n<p>This is how I did it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->First, I used <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Maps<\/a> to locate the castle. As I wanted the images as good as possible, and the castle is both large and not aligned to the straight world of maps, I took two screenshots from Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5240\" title=\"castle-01\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5239\" title=\"castle-02\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now I merged these wo images using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/applications\/omnigraffle\/\" target=\"_blank\">OmniGraffle<\/a>, so I got one image.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5238\" title=\"castle-03\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, I screenshot some trees from surrounding woods, just to get some trees, and I cut them roughly and made them transparent pngs using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemkesoft.com\/download.html\" target=\"_blank\">GraphicConverter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5236\" title=\"castle-05\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5235\" title=\"castle-06\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5234\" title=\"castle-07\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I now painted over the areas I wanted to hide with these trees in OmniGraffle, and exported a \u00a0new image. \u00a0I\u00a0then opened the new image and rotated that image using OmniGraffle so it would align.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5237\" title=\"castle-04\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I cut away unneeded clutter from the image.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5233\" title=\"castle-08\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"528\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I ran the Old Photo Filter using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filterforge.com\/?affiliateid=200100725\" target=\"_blank\">FilterForge<\/a> on the image.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5232\" title=\"castle-09\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/castle-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"528\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think this is a good trick of the eye, and shows a nice castle park that could be from 1939.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I break in today with something special that I think some of you might like. I needed a picture from the air of the ruins of Cardiff Castle, in June 1939 for my adventure Wicked Times &#8211; The Summer Of &#8217;39. This is how I did it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[13,16,10],"class_list":["post-5231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapmaking","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-filterforge","tag-graphicconverter","tag-omnigraffle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5242,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions\/5242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}