Since our shoulder tattoo picture mixer design was getting some interest, we’ve added a more powerful back tattoo design. It looks like this:

You can move your tattoo around the body and scale it as you like. Just prepare it as a “png” image with transparency, upload it, then work on placement. This way, you can get an idea of how the tattoo might look on you.

The body in the design is from the excellent makehuman project.

There’s a new Book Design added to the picture mixer. It lets you put a custom front and back on a 3D book model. If you want, you can animate the book flipping from a view of the front to a view of the back, and tell a little picture story that way - just hit the “make animation” button. Remember that after you make an animation, you can adjust its timing. It is often good to add a longish pause between the end of the animation and when it starts over again, so as not to make it too overwhelming visually.

If you are using our Picture Mixer tool to create pictures, animations, or webcam effects, but would like to change the result in some way we haven’t thought of, you can just download the design from our site and tweak it yourself in Blender, a free and open 3D graphics program. For those who haven’t used Blender before, we’ve prepared a list of tips and tutorials for getting started. It is definitely a skill worth acquiring, even if just for the fun of it!

Now when you make a picture or animation on our site, you can save it with a short URL, such as http://makesweet.com/test on our site itself.  This skips the step of downloading and emailing or posting elsewhere.  Just look for the “save to” option on high-resolution pictures and animations.  Enjoy!

Introducing our latest picture mixer, the candle.

Your picture or text appears as a label on the candle as the view rotates.

Ever wondered what your face would look like fluttering on flags across the nation? I know I have.

MakeSweet is proud to announce the latest in our line of 3D generators, our fluttering flag:

Yet another picture manipulation design, the shoulder-tattoo design: paste a picture or text onto a shoulder as a tattoo. The picture can either contain transparency, or alternatively brighter colors will be interpreted as more transparent. A silly example:

Announcing two new 3D blends: billboards and wine bottles. An example of what you can do:

For the wine bottle design, you have control of what appears on the label of the bottles.

Our make sweet animation tool has been improved again, thanks to all who provided feedback!  The interface is getting cleaner and easier to understand.

Our animation tool just grew a “make hi-res picture” option. Click this option to get a crisp, high-resolution version of your current frame. Here’s an example of the quality (reduced for this blog from 800×600 pixels to 400×300 pixels):

Have fun!