Canon A650 process of mapping but much more powerful. Canon A650 bump map, as shown earlier, uses a single channel approach for data that is interpreted as grayscale; a normal map will use multiple colors of an image. Even though you can create your bump maps with color images, your 3D software is looking only at the high and low values of gray. A normal map, on the other hand, is determined by the red, green, and blue values within the image. This Canon A650 technique is greatly used in video-game modeling because very low polygonal objects can appear to have much more detail. Normal maps are not usually created from digital photography, but they can be. The process for creating a normal map with a digital camera is more involved than shooting for a color, or displacement map. Lighting is extremely important and often has to be specifically controlled by Canon A650. This makes shooting with available light more difficult. On the flip side, shooting in a studio with controlled lighting will give you the control you need. Photoshop has a really easy method to create normal maps in Photoshop directly from Canon A650 digital camera images. Of course, they should be evenly lit. http://www.canona650.com | http://www.canona650.com/patterns_and_textures.html | http://www.canona650.com/viewfinder.html | http://www.canona650.com/symmetry_and_balance.html | http://www.canona650.com/camera_shake.html | http://www.canona650.com/which_camera.html | http://www.canona650.com/perspective.html | http://www.canona650.com/your_next_shot.html | http://www.canona650.com/camera_choice.html | http://www.canona650.com/framing.html | http://www.canona650.com/digital_SLRs.html | http://www.canona650.com/image_orientation.html | http://www.canona650.com/how_to_handle_your_camera.html | http://www.canona650.com/contact.html | http://www.canona650.com/about_us.html | http://www.canona650.com/point-and-shoot_camera.html