HowTo: Turn Photoshop into X-ray Vision Machine, well partially anyway!
Firstly I’d like to say this is still in development for me, I like to fiddle with images/code/etc etc and I thought this would be as interesting as my lie detector article. Ok, I am short of time today, however, I wasn’t short of time a little while earlier, when I put together some fascinating peices of software together, in order to try and create a DIY X-Ray Vision Filter Combination that would be successful at obtaining the ever-more infamous (yet aging) IR vision (or nightvision filter on some cameras), with the Missing IR data itself. Obviously this HowTo is limited on the resolution and type of camera you have used. For this tutorial I will be using some pictures I found while surfing the internet. Remember, this is about making the best of the data we have (visible), It may be possible to get some extremely successful and interesting results with this, depending how subtle or not peoples clothing transparency can be, also dependant on the wavelength size for light to propogate through it. Obviously if you have an IR filter on your camera already, you will probably not need this tiny HowTo, but might be worth taking a look at if you wish to improve blurry shots you’ve taken already.
Heres an Example at where you will be driving at (Yes, I did this..) [fullsizerender]
Update: a lot of you were unhappy about the results you were seeing, oh well, so much for keeping my site clean, heres some fun I had earlier providing the results (with this tutorial) that you’d probably most like to see (you dirty perverts! 
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The Tools you need:
Akvis Enhancer Plugin
Chromasoftware’s IR Film Filter
Step 0:
First we need to find a picture with enough information for us, I used this one.
As you can see above there is a certain amount of information available already, it just needs to be filtered carefully and repetatively; in some cases creativity is required, most of you know what im talking about.
Step 1:
Ok now the real work begins, and you need to download yourself Akvis Enhancer Trial Plugin for Photoshop and the IR film plugin by ChromaSoftware, there are just the two I tried today while I had a few minutes spare. They work remarkably well, and in some cases, not at all. Let’s not get too excited, and give it a go. What we need to do is pull out more data from this 1 picture without requiring say 3 or 4 stills (this means using data that could otherwise be blocky, but heh, we can live with that, we need to see ALL THE DATA, ironically it is possible to see new definitions of objects (or whats underneath objects!) when we perform such filtering. Basically it changes the interpretation of each pixel (shadow, light, contrast, etc). Ok so lets use the akvis enhancer filter for photshop on this to get something like:
Our Output:
Notice guys, it might not look so pretty, but you should see the picture now looks REAL, like you might EXPECT it to REALLY look like. Obviously bustyandreal.com fiddle with their pictures (or just have decent photographers, who knows? I don’t, nonetheless, here we have much greater detail, and in some cases blockiness/overexageration. This is a problem and needs to be resolved.. but not yet). Notice the contrast detail.
Step 2:
Ok so now you might be getting excited, or maybe, thinking “this is just lame man”, heh maybe.. lets continue though with an IR pass using ChromaSoftware IR Film Filter!
Hmmmm… So Ok it could look better, you really need to have a play between both, so lets see what I ended up with below. Its worth noting if your clever enough with the filters I’ve mentioned and use brightness/contrast, you can begin to identify the colour of the wavelength beneath, I’ll show that example at the end of this tutorial (you dirty bastads!).
Step 3 and 4: Place original image on layer over IR data , airbrush 30% opacity over original to reveal underlying IR undertones (our X-Ray see-thru clothes).
Ok, almost done, what we need to do now is take the filtered data, and put it back into our original picture, without it looking diar. That’s not too difficult, Grab the image you started with, (above at the very top of this tutorial), copy this in on a seperate layer. Now very carefully airbrush out the coloured layer clothing from the image , make sure you use 30% opacity or so on the eraser, or you will bugger it up. You will see a colour picture now, with X-Ray IR data embedded, its still colour too. NEAT. The beauty of the method is you get to keep some of the colour data too. You dirty bastads! It should look something like below:
And there we have it, same picture, but the underlying layer of clothing , at least, has been exposed. Have a play with it, there is no guaranteed way of getting results with this method, but you will get something! Please do let me know if you have better luck than this. I’ve found pink red and purple and white all seem to be fairly compatible colours for X-Ray filtering.
Step 5 Optionals: Merge Visible, Adjust levels (auto-level perhaps if your boring), Add more detail with Akvis Enhancer
I found that this method has some very interesting attributes and features, using just photoshop and some free trials, I was able to perform some fairly sophisticated procedures (including filtering out certain wavelengths) in just a few steps. Photoshop is truly a powerful tool as are the plugins I’ve used, I don’t know how much they are, but you don’t even need to buy them, I provide links at the top of the tutorial where to find them:
Getting the colour out:
I found that it was also possible to retrieve the colours from clothing underneath, an interesting discovery but im not ready to share that yet until I find an automatic way of performing procedures, improving them, and perhaps begin conceiving a PHP image algo to go over the data in such a way. Not fun, oh wait, it is pretty interesting stuff.
And so, I end my dirty bastad tutorial at how to turn your PC into, albeit basic, X-Ray Vision Machine. Many thanks to my static model that I now call Jill. Time for sleep. Oh I almost forgot, checkout this IR colour sweep, god knows how I did it, I will have to try and reproduce it later (please forgive the blockiness, it was one of my first original tests)
Heh, im definately going with red, nn.
Due to popular Demand:
Howto see underneath using only 1 filter… (levels):
If you really want to be fancy, combine this with the other methods, its extremely effective sometimes.
What THIS ISNT VERY EFFECTIVE?
Ok firstly, I used a model with a jumper… this is how good just the above filter effect alone can be (1 filter only):
October 23rd, 2006 at 12:15 am
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October 23rd, 2006 at 8:44 pm
i tried this but when i try to order my layers..it doesnt move. my background remains locked. how do i order it?
October 23rd, 2006 at 8:49 pm
Hi kk,
look in the layer selection (usually to your bottom right), double left click on the layer, press enter,
all done!
Best Wishes,
Azio
November 4th, 2006 at 5:42 am
haha! cool man
i must try this…
November 22nd, 2006 at 4:40 pm
Time to start selling an X-Ray-Save bra
January 10th, 2007 at 1:53 am
this shit doesnt work grrr
January 10th, 2007 at 4:12 am
it does.
January 11th, 2007 at 10:03 am
does this method apply to other photoshop software like other den elements….
January 11th, 2007 at 10:06 am
I dont know what a den element is - but I’d imagine so.
January 11th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
sorry.. my mistake…
can i use photoshop 6.. to use for this purposes??
January 11th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
any photoshop version should be sufficient, to clear up the reports of “IT DOESNT WORK”, it does work, if you want the best results try the ADJUST LEVELS function in photoshop first at the top left hand side,
January 11th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
i see.. but the IR filter plugin that u implement… i wasn’t able to use it… as it was not found in the Filter selection… why is it so??
January 11th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
incorrectly installed without doubt!
January 11th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
but i download from the link you provide.. and it seems like the folder only have the plugin without any installer… is that what you have at first?
January 11th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
well trust me, your installing it wrong, how I don’t know, its very simple.
Please see the last bit of tutorial (dont bother using the plugin its not as good as this method ANYWAY).
Due to popular Demand:
Howto see underneath using only 1 filter… (levels):
To reitterate, just change the levels without a plugin dude
cmmon, its not that difficult!!
January 11th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
ok.. how about the opacity… does it need a fixed percentage.. or varies to get a good pics??
January 11th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
you shouldnt be fidling with opacity for the levels adjustments (this just changes the “range” of data your looking at in the picture).
January 11th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
ok thanks… but does this method apply to all kinds of clothing materials?
January 25th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Well i donwlodaded the applications.. I got some good pics too… but i couldnt make anything
January 25th, 2007 at 9:19 am
feel free to email me them azio [at] azio.org
and ill take a look at them for ya,
best wishes,
azio
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October 17th, 2007 at 6:54 am
For those that cant get tge IR Filter to work juat copy and paste it into your adobe folder in program files in the plug-ins folder
November 6th, 2007 at 12:39 am
Im adjusting the levels in photoshop elements 6, and Im getting next to no results. The pictures Im using involve white undergarments with strong lighting, so Im meeting the criteria.
Any suggestions?
November 8th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
It depends whether the garment was see through in anyway or you want a completely fake effect. Assuming fakery is not of interest then go to Ringo photo site and type in braless. There I show how photoshop can be used to make something that’s hardly transparent almost see through. Unfortunately due to limitations of the text it’s written in a very compressed shorthand. But lassoo & layer the clothing only. Then go to high magnification and clone in transparent pixels - not too many. then use curve tool to enhance transparency further. Then up the contract. this looks the wrong move but then increase brightness which should produce the effect. Works well on dark top on skin anyway. Even Microsoft picture manager brightness tool - full menu - works well on the clothes but of course destroys the skin tones surrounding the image.
November 27th, 2007 at 3:18 am
how do you get the registration code for chroma-ir film?
December 8th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
That x-tina pc there is no way you just used levels for it. I have been doing x-rays for a while and never come up with that effect especially the color of the nipple with just levels.. Any insight?
January 5th, 2008 at 5:24 am
how to i get this photoshop thing? is there any web-site to download it or download a free trial of it?
January 5th, 2008 at 5:25 am
how exactly do i get this photoshop thing, is there any web-site to download it or download a free trial of it?
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:39 am
Hey man ! I am trying to download the IR film that u’re saying but it seems that it could not be downloaded from chroma website. Why is it so? They have the new version of IR film under the name Davinci. I tried to download it but when it all complete, I can’t install it. Whats the mistakes that I did ?
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:49 am
Pls help me with it bro. I’m tired of being dealing with this Davinci crap ! I wanna have the older version. But when I download it, its all in winRar or winZip files ! What the F**k ?
January 31st, 2008 at 1:59 am
guys, you don’t have to use IR film: see the part starting from
“Howto see underneath using only 1 filter… (levels):”
That uses one stock, default filter and it is a little bit better, you can get better results when experimenting with combinations. However adjust->levels works a treat!
Hope this helps
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i used the levels on its own but when i type in the numbers which are in the screen shot it goes all dark what am i doing ronge!!!!!!!!!
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