Preserved Topic: making a pic look like its in night vision (Page 1 of 1)

hello,
i have this pic and i was wanting it to look like it is being seen by night vision. is there any way of doing this
thank you
scotty

scotty

are you talking about using Photoshop???

Simple.... errr.... Make a later, fill it wit green and set it to color. Add monochromatic noise to it, bang around with the noise settings until you get a good grainy effect.

Then mess with the levels to make the light areas almost white and the dark areas a really dark green... almost black.

then post here and we help more.

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Then of course you can use a plug_in!....there is one out there called NightVision :P

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I tried this witha picture of a girl in a kitchen and i discovered i had to invert the photo first, bodies should apear a brighter green, beeing warm and all
I don't know, just an idea...

crip

Well, that depends on what type of 'night vison' you are talking about...infra red, or light intensifying. For infra red (which registers heat), yes, invert. For light intensifying, no.

Did exactly as a couple people mentioned...

1. New layer -- Set to color -- Fill with green
2. Adjust brightness/contrast of car until I got the look I wanted.
3. Added crosshair thingies hastily.

Finito!

Nice one, Krets.

What? No scanlines?

Fire one, Mister Kretsminky! We'll teach them to park in my space...

Here's one with the trendy noise and scanlines I like krets' better.

You forgot the hastily drawn crosshairs of which none of the individual lines are quite the same length.

I hate to be a monkey wrench, but if you are looking for a truly genuine night vision look, then the original light source must be removed. There is no light (aside from moonlight) that I know of that is as intense as the sun during nighttime. Perhaps the glowing edges filter along with these other ideas would give a more convincing appearance of night vision, maybe merging out the implication of sunlight. Just a thought!

well, in the James Bond movies their was always an external light source and synax's one looks more realistic but not nearly as stylish

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Don't the modern NV goggles display in Black & White only? I could be wrong though.

Yup. B&W. Good observation Drac.

I assumed he was probably looking for the more obvious green tinted night vision.

Isn't the B&W NV infrared? It reads body heat (any heat actually) - doesn't illuminate the moon light.

Krets... good so far... way to clean. synax, noice, but the edges are to sharp... the night vision i have is a little softer than that and there is a bit of noise in the picture. That is also tru about the light source... but there is almost always more light than what the moon reflects... also, many of the better night vison scopes have INfrared illuminators that do wonders to the image.

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If you want hollywood style night vision, which I'm guessing is what most people recognize as night vision, I would get a photo that was not taken in direct sunlight, or if it was, get rid of any sun reflections with the Color Burn tool. Desaturate the image, and then go to Images > Adjust > Hue Saturation, click on colorize, and use the sliders to get a good pale green. If needed, go to Curves and raise the lighting levels, as night vision tends to look like a photo taken with too bright of a flash. Then gaussian blur the picture a little, and maybe add some noise on top of it and blur that, too.



"They mostly come out at night. Mostly." - Newt, Aliens