About The Old Bluevine Studios

Introduction

Bluevine Studios was a business I created and worked on from 2005 to 2007. The idea behind it was to create digital art from photographs in a semi-automated fashion using Corel Painter. Customers could upload their digital photo, select a style, select a color scheme and receive the digital artwork as well as an optional print.

The automation was a custom algorithm based on edge-detection and color regions. The color mapping was also a custom algorithm. The program would output a Corel Painter script and, since Painter doesn't yet support plugins, another program would automate the image loading and execution of the script.

The project was still a work in progress when I decided to shutter the business and get a "normal job".

Example Styles

To get a rough idea of the possible styles, there were apples!:

Example Color Schemes

Gallery Of Images

Before And After Examples