cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/5046714
So I took some pictures of the moon the other night that were horribly overexposed and I figured "why not try to bring it down a bit" and when I did I got a lot of interesting artifacts in the image that were some interesting colors.
So I did a some editing in Lightroom, then Audacity, then Lightroom again. Converting it from Raw, to JPG, to BMP, and back to JPG.
Using Audacity to edit the image a bit can add a lot of weirdness that is (IMO) quite interesting.
7 Comments
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 2y
that's pretty cool
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 2y
Thank you
I was pretty happy with how it came out
Spent like 3 days trying to come up with a name for it though lol
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
Yeah I think that's a great name, definitely has a fantasy scifi vibe.
How does image editing with audacity work btw?
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y
Basically you import the image as raw data and start applying audio effects to the data and export the image after each effect to see what it's doing
It's a bit wonky and audacity is not made for images so all you see is a wave form of the data but it can add some cool effects
And once you kick it back out again you can drop it back in image editing software for a round 2 there if you want
Edit: I can a link to a more in depth write up on it if you'd like to give it a shot because I glossed over some of the finer details on what goes into it for the sake of being concise
Thelaststandn@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Please do! That sounds cool as hell to mess around with.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y
Here's a link to a tutorial
Someone linked it to me a couple months ago and I've been having a lot of fun with it since then
WerDei@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Funny thing to encounter on a Minecraft forum.
Even funnier, here's a blog post from a Minecraft modder that does a simillar thing - encoding images in various audio codecs (Scroll to the "Finally, the demo" to skip the tech talk):
https://unascribed.com/junk/imgaudio/
I'd love to try this sometime, some of these artifacts look very cool. I also want to try using the encoded images for sound design or music.