{"id":13397,"date":"2010-11-05T20:26:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T03:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/11\/05\/13397.html"},"modified":"2010-11-05T20:26:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T03:26:55","slug":"face-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/11\/05\/face-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Face Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've been meaning for months to post about an awesome new feature in Google's Picasa photo-management software:<\/p>\n<p>Given a set of photos of a person, the <a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/support\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&answer=187259\">Face Movie<\/a> feature creates a slideshow-like movie that rotates and shifts each new photo so that the person's face stays more or less still in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>It's an amazing effect. Prose descriptions of this don't do it justice; instead, watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fLQtssJDMMc&feature=player_embedded\">demo movie<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fLQtssJDMMc\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(If you don't see a movie here, follow the link to the YouTube page.)<\/p>\n<p>It's like magic. I haven't had a chance to try it out myself&mdash;I usually use iPhoto instead of Picasa&mdash;and I see from some other people's Face Movies on YouTube that the results aren't always perfect. But they're often really cool. Check it out!<\/p>\n<p>In case you don't have <a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/\">Picasa<\/a>: it's a downloadable desktop application (not to be confused with the related online gallery site Picasa Web Albums), free for Windows and Mac. And I believe that when you run it, it searches your disk for photos, so I think you can use it in conjunction with iPhoto. I'd be very hesitant about <em>editing<\/em> photos in both applications&mdash;I suspect iPhoto would be unhappy about that&mdash;but I'm guessing that creating a Face Movie wouldn't interfere with iPhoto. I'll try and remember to try it sometime soon.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning for months to post about an awesome new feature in Google&#8217;s Picasa photo-management software: Given a set&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-software"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}