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Here is how I would do it step by step. You can combine these into one command if you want.


# create shirt mask

# insert picture in transparent background at correct location for placement on shirt

# extract picture mask

# apply shirt mask to shirt and get mean of opaque only area # process tshirt to make sure shirt area is close to mean=0.5 and background is mid gray

# create lighting mask --
# you can include some kind of contrast adjustment here if you want to make the lighting effect stronger,
# but keep the mean close to 0.5 (e.g. -level 10x90% or -sigmoidal-contrast 2x50%)
# also add blur if you want less texture to show from shirt in the picture

# create displacement map -- blur to make it smooth so texture does not cause jagged offsets

# apply lighting to picture using -compose hardlight and put back alpha channel

# apply displacement map to lighted picture

# apply displaced picture over tshirt and apply shirt mask

Thank you both for the help and I have both methods working although snibgo's is still a bat file at the moment.

We are exagerating the difference between shadows and hightlights of a black shirt. This is crazy. A white shirt would be better.

The shirts will be of different colours but I thought it would be a good idea to get the code working first; although I now see that will probably cause problems.

I will be working with a larger file size photo in the first place but I need to reduce the file size to shorten process time. I suppose saving the reduced image file as a miff file would be the best method. I will try adding a timer to see what the process time actually is.

The shirts will be of different colours but I thought it would be a good idea to get the code working first; although I now see that will probably cause problems.

I will be working with a larger file size photo in the first place but I need to reduce the file size to shorten process time. I suppose saving the reduced image file as a miff file would be the best method. I will try adding a timer to see what the process time actually is.

When I have done this for multiple colored Tshirts, I worked with a white shirt to get the masks, lighting and displacement maps. Then just replaced the actual shirt in the final step. But you provided a black shirt to start and I was concerned to negate it since the shading would be backwards. So in general, I would start with a white shirt for setting up all the images, if you have that option.

To speed up the processing, in the past, I made my commands into a single command line after getting the mask of the tshirt and the lighting and displacement maps. Save them as miff (or mpc). Then I put all the rest of the processing into a single command using mpr to save intermediate images as needed. This way the same tshirt mask and maps can be used for any colored Tshirt of the same geometry and for any image. The image may need to be resized and placed accordingly, but I expect that information will come from the front end system.

Note: if you have an image that has transparency (like text on transparent background), then you may need to modify the process to combine alpha channels to preserve the transparency in the image.

fmw42 wrote: ↑2014-05-19T12:00:38-07:00 When I have done this for multiple colored Tshirts, I worked with a white shirt to get the masks, lighting and displacement maps. Then just replaced the actual shirt in the final step.

Which parameters would you use to get the masks, lighting and displacement maps for a white image?

I do not understand the question. I show above step by step how to process the tshirt to get the lighting and displacement maps.

Post your tshirt image and the image you want to put on it.

Better, just use my tshirt script at my link below. You will need a unix environment, which could be Linux, Mac OSX, Window 10 unix, or Windows with Cygwin