scramble an image

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mst
Feb 23, 2006
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Hello,
I would like to know how to scramble an image using photoshop.

Thanks.

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Mike Hyndman
Feb 23, 2006
"mst" wrote in message
Hello,
I would like to know how to scramble an image using photoshop.
Thanks.

More info would help.

MH
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mst
Feb 23, 2006
Hello,
I have an image. I would like to cut the image into say around 100 small boxes and rearrange them randomly.
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Sparky
Feb 23, 2006
"mst" wrote in message
Hello,
I have an image. I would like to cut the image into say around 100 small boxes and rearrange them randomly.

I`m not a true Photoshop expert, but try going into
Filter/Stylize/Tiles….. and dabble around with the sliders……….
MH
Mike Hyndman
Feb 23, 2006
"mst" wrote in message
Hello,
I have an image. I would like to cut the image into say around 100 small boxes and rearrange them randomly.

It will be a slow process.
Control+R to show the rulers and double click on one of them to change the scale to percent.
Drag horizontal and vertical guides out in 10% increments, this will give you a hundred squares.
With the marquee tool (M) on rectangular, select a square and then Control+X (cut) followed by Control + V (paste)
This will put the selected tile onto its own layer where you will able to rotate it or whatever with the transform tool (Control+T) and move the tile around with the move tool (V).
Repeat 100 times 😉

HTH
MH
MH
Mike Hyndman
Feb 23, 2006
"Mike Hyndman" wrote in message
"mst" wrote in message
Hello,
I have an image. I would like to cut the image into say around 100 small boxes and rearrange them randomly.

It will be a slow process.
Control+R to show the rulers and double click on one of them to change the scale to percent.
Drag horizontal and vertical guides out in 10% increments, this will give you a hundred squares.
With the marquee tool (M) on rectangular, select a square and then Control+X (cut) followed by Control + V (paste)
This will put the selected tile onto its own layer where you will able to rotate it or whatever with the transform tool (Control+T) and move the tile around with the move tool (V).
Repeat 100 times 😉

This might speed it up a bit.
Once you have the grid in place, you can set your Rectangular Marquee to a Fixed Size, entering values that match the size of the grid spaces. Set View—>Snap To…—>Guidelines and select away. 😉

MH
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toby
Feb 26, 2006
mst wrote:
Hello,
I have an image. I would like to cut the image into say around 100 small boxes and rearrange them randomly.

Okay, I built a simple filter to break the image (or selection) into 10×10 pieces and shuffle them (note, each tile has to be identical, so if the image is not a multiple of N wide or high, there will be thin unprocessed strips on the right and/or bottom). If this is what you want, I’ll consider adding a user interface to specify the number of tiles. (The plugin, once installed, is found at
Filter->Telegraphics->Scramble.)

Prototype at:
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/scramble-0.1b2-win.z ip (Win) http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/scramble-0.1b1.sit (Mac) GPL source code @ http://www.telegraphics.com.au/svn/scramble/trunk

If I finish this, I’ll put it up with the rest of my plugins at http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/

Playing with this, you get a rather neat effect if you scramble then Gaussian Blur a bit and then scramble again… At 10×10 it would be a jigsaw-like challenge to reassemble by hand. (At higher tilings you’d be able to "poor man’s encrypt" an image, and with the corresponding anti-permutation, the receiver could restore it to intactness. Ideally the filter would store the permutation in a file, for instance, so that it could be reversed later.)
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toby
Feb 26, 2006
mst wrote:
Hello,
I have an image. I would like to cut the image into say around 100 small boxes and rearrange them randomly.

Okay, I built a simple filter to break the image (or selection) into 10×10 pieces and shuffle them (note, each tile has to be identical, so if the image is not a multiple of N wide or high, there will be thin unprocessed strips on the right and/or bottom). If this is what you want, I’ll consider adding a user interface to specify the number of tiles. (The plugin, once installed, is found at
Filter->Telegraphics->Scramble.)

Prototype at:
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/scramble-0.1b2-win.z ip (Win) http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/scramble-0.1b2.sit (Mac) GPL source code @ http://www.telegraphics.com.au/svn/scramble/trunk

If I finish this, I’ll put it up with the rest of my plugins at http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/

Playing with this, you get a rather neat effect if you scramble then Gaussian Blur a bit and then scramble again… At 10×10 it would be a jigsaw-like challenge to reassemble by hand. (At higher tilings you’d be able to "poor man’s encrypt" an image, and with the corresponding anti-permutation, the receiver could restore it to intactness. Ideally the filter would store the permutation in a file, for instance, so that it could be reversed later.)
MH
Mike Hyndman
Feb 26, 2006
"toby" wrote in message
mst wrote:
Hello,
I have an image. I would like to cut the image into say around 100 small boxes and rearrange them randomly.

Okay, I built a simple filter to break the image (or selection) into 10×10 pieces and shuffle them (note, each tile has to be identical, so if the image is not a multiple of N wide or high, there will be thin unprocessed strips on the right and/or bottom). If this is what you want, I’ll consider adding a user interface to specify the number of tiles. (The plugin, once installed, is found at
Filter->Telegraphics->Scramble.)

Prototype at:
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/scramble-0.1b2-win.z ip (Win) http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/scramble-0.1b2.sit (Mac) GPL source code @ http://www.telegraphics.com.au/svn/scramble/trunk
If I finish this, I’ll put it up with the rest of my plugins at http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/

Playing with this, you get a rather neat effect if you scramble then Gaussian Blur a bit and then scramble again… At 10×10 it would be a jigsaw-like challenge to reassemble by hand. (At higher tilings you’d be able to "poor man’s encrypt" an image, and with the corresponding anti-permutation, the receiver could restore it to intactness. Ideally the filter would store the permutation in a file, for instance, so that it could be reversed later.)
Toby,

This is one fantastic piece of work, it does exactly what the OP requested. I have tried it on images with different aspect ratios and I have not seen the unprocessed banding you describe.
I had found some actions at
http://www.panosfx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task =category&sectionid=4&id=13&Itemid=27
that went part of the way, some even making jigsaw type pieces, but even these had to be scrambled by hand.

Regards

Mike H
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toby
Feb 26, 2006
Mike Hyndman wrote:
"toby" wrote in message
mst wrote:
Hello,
I have an image. I would like to cut the image into say around 100 small boxes and rearrange them randomly.

Okay, I built a simple filter to break the image (or selection) into 10×10 pieces and shuffle them (note, each tile has to be identical, so if the image is not a multiple of N wide or high, there will be thin unprocessed strips on the right and/or bottom). If this is what you want, I’ll consider adding a user interface to specify the number of tiles. (The plugin, once installed, is found at
Filter->Telegraphics->Scramble.)

Prototype at:
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/scramble-0.1b2-win.z ip (Win) http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/scramble-0.1b2.sit (Mac) GPL source code @ http://www.telegraphics.com.au/svn/scramble/trunk
If I finish this, I’ll put it up with the rest of my plugins at http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/

Playing with this, you get a rather neat effect if you scramble then Gaussian Blur a bit and then scramble again… At 10×10 it would be a jigsaw-like challenge to reassemble by hand. (At higher tilings you’d be able to "poor man’s encrypt" an image, and with the corresponding anti-permutation, the receiver could restore it to intactness. Ideally the filter would store the permutation in a file, for instance, so that it could be reversed later.)
Toby,

This is one fantastic piece of work, it does exactly what the OP requested. I have tried it on images with different aspect ratios and I have not seen the unprocessed banding you describe.

The unprocessed strips are an inevitable artifact if your image isn’t a multiple of 10, because each tile has to be equal sized. If your image is 105×105, for instance, tiles will be 10×10, and five righthand rows and file bottom columns won’t be touched. I just wanted to point this out in case it surprised anyone.

I’ll add a UI for the "tile count" parameter, I want to see what *really* scrambled images look like.

I had found some actions at
http://www.panosfx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task =category&sectionid=4&id=13&Itemid=27
that went part of the way, some even making jigsaw type pieces, but even these had to be scrambled by hand.

Regards

Mike H
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Mike Hyndman
Feb 26, 2006
"toby" wrote in message
Mike Hyndman wrote:
"toby" wrote in message
mst wrote:
Hello,
I have an image. I would like to cut the image into say around 100 small boxes and rearrange them randomly.

Okay, I built a simple filter to break the image (or selection) into 10×10 pieces and shuffle them (note, each tile has to be identical, so if the image is not a multiple of N wide or high, there will be thin unprocessed strips on the right and/or bottom). If this is what you want, I’ll consider adding a user interface to specify the number of tiles. (The plugin, once installed, is found at
Filter->Telegraphics->Scramble.)

Prototype at:
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/scramble-0.1b2-win.z ip (Win) http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/scramble-0.1b2.sit (Mac) GPL source code @ http://www.telegraphics.com.au/svn/scramble/trunk
If I finish this, I’ll put it up with the rest of my plugins at http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/

Playing with this, you get a rather neat effect if you scramble then Gaussian Blur a bit and then scramble again… At 10×10 it would be a jigsaw-like challenge to reassemble by hand. (At higher tilings you’d be able to "poor man’s encrypt" an image, and with the corresponding anti-permutation, the receiver could restore it to intactness. Ideally the filter would store the permutation in a file, for instance, so that it could be reversed later.)
Toby,

This is one fantastic piece of work, it does exactly what the OP requested.
I have tried it on images with different aspect ratios and I have not seen
the unprocessed banding you describe.

The unprocessed strips are an inevitable artifact if your image isn’t a multiple of 10, because each tile has to be equal sized. If your image is 105×105, for instance, tiles will be 10×10, and five righthand rows and file bottom columns won’t be touched. I just wanted to point this out in case it surprised anyone.

I’ll add a UI for the "tile count" parameter, I want to see what *really* scrambled images look like.
Toby,

That’s the answer, all the images I tried the plug in on had a resolution of 300ppi (30*10) So, providing that the image "resolution" is a multiple of 10, then there should be no problem using your plug in, no?

Regards

Mike H
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toby
Feb 26, 2006
Mike Hyndman wrote:
"toby" wrote in message
Mike Hyndman wrote:
"toby" wrote in message
mst wrote:
Hello,
I have an image. I would like to cut the image into say around 100 small boxes and rearrange them randomly.

Okay, I built a simple filter to break the image (or selection) into 10×10 pieces and shuffle them …
Toby,

This is one fantastic piece of work, it does exactly what the OP requested.
I have tried it on images with different aspect ratios and I have not seen
the unprocessed banding you describe.

The unprocessed strips are an inevitable artifact if your image isn’t a multiple of 10, …
Toby,

That’s the answer, all the images I tried the plug in on had a resolution of 300ppi (30*10) So, providing that the image "resolution" is a multiple of 10, then there should be no problem using your plug in, no?

It’s about pixel count, so probably your images were multiples.

Regards

Mike H
T
toby
Feb 26, 2006
toby wrote:
mst wrote:
Hello,
I have an image. I would like to cut the image into say around 100 small boxes and rearrange them randomly.

Okay, I built a simple filter to break the image (or selection) into 10×10 pieces and shuffle them… If this is what you
want, I’ll consider adding a user interface

Now asks for tile width and height, download update from: http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/scramble-0.2b1-win.z ip http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/scramble-0.2b1.sit (Mac)

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