Video tutorial on isolating sounds with Photoshop

i wonder if i can remove the hawaiian out of all my hawaiian christmas records...

vincinatti blues wrote:photoshop will automatically detect the layers?

Photoshop doesn't do anything, as kvmoore pointed out you can use any graphics editing program. It's a frequency spectrum that your painting in, if you know what to delete out there you can remove certain parts. The real point is that you need to convert an image back into a waveform...I'm surprised that this is so simple that even Audition and maybe other programs can do that.

off the chain!

Wow, now their's a mac version! Cool stuff.

If you took regular pictures and put them in Photosounder I wonder what they would sound like.

lol I read about somebody trying that. I forgot how it turned out.

faze1 wrote:lol I read about somebody trying that. I forgot how it turned out.

haha

If it does work, I think everyone should take a pic of themselves and find out what they sound like.

You could take a pic of a group of people and find out right away who is and isn't in harmony with the rest.

Just the fact that this can be done really affirms my belief in seeing music as well as hearing it.

This technique's been around for a long time, but Photosounder looks like a really well thought out tool for it.

I always used to use Spectralab (a really old sound analysis program from the 90s) to convert audio to images, photoshop to edit, and then <a href="http://hem.passagen.se/rasmuse/Granny.htm">Coagula</a> to convert the images back into sound (no realtime preview or anything, and setting it up was a pain). Not a good workflow at all, I didn't really dive into it much.

Coagula's still a cool program for making sounds from scratch, though, and worth checking out.

ONE wrote:If you took regular pictures and put them in Photosounder I wonder what they would sound like.

you have been able to do that sort of thing with fruity loops for ages... it is called the beepmap or something like that... it takes bitmap files i believe.

ONE wrote:If you took regular pictures and put them in Photosounder I wonder what they would sound like.

I've put a bunch of pictures in this http://photosounder.com/examples/xspf_p ... /test.xspf

Planning to soon make a video out of it, so you can see where the sounds are coming from. I wonder why I didn't do this earlier..

ONE wrote:If it does work, I think everyone should take a pic of themselves and find out what they sound like.

You all sound the same! Well, it's just that the general composition of the photograph matters a lot more than your facial features.

hmm, so it makes kind of glitchy synth type sounds with regular pictures?

Could somebody show us what pictures make what kind of sound? For instance a portrait, landscape, mona lisa...?

C'mon. It doesn't "look" at the picture and "think" "hmmm ok thats a lake I create a harmonic soft sound".
All that matters is the intensity of a pixel on an Y-axis (which represent the frequency) on a specific point of the X-axis (which represent the time).
So it dosnt matter What the picture is. A lake with a light blue sky above will have as much high frequencies as a portrait of your mother wearing a light blue (or yellow or any other bright color) baseball cap.

Most of those pictues with all the blendings, low contrast etc will sound chaotic in almost the same way. I think high contrast geometric forms could give a nice sound. Something like shematics (black/white inverted of course)

peace

hmmm.

interesting.

Just had some fun with FL and painted a soundpicture

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/6127 ... ngface.jpg

I raised the attackparameter of the kickdrum so it is soft. And I also turned on the CFLoop.

Wanna know how that sound??

http://www.zshare.net/audio/640197897f4af246/

Now if the pianoroll would have single frequencies instead of semitones, then it would be like photosounder or beepmap or ....


peace

peterpiper wrote:C'mon. It doesn't "look" at the picture and "think" "hmmm ok thats a lake I create a harmonic soft sound".

I wasn't thinking that at all. I simply just wanted to know how these things respond to different pictures, and what it is they take into account to make the sounds.