Luxor Temple

TutorialsJune 19. 2020

Photoshop One-on-one – General functions and a specific use-case of the updated Warp Tool

Written by Krisztián Vértes

The Warp Transform Tool has been part of Photoshop for a long time, and it had remained mostly unchanged since its introduction until last year, when Adobe updated its Creative Cloud software suite for 2020.

ProjectsApril 17. 2020

Modeling the Past: Creating 3D Models from Archival Imagery

Written by Owen Murray

Since the inception of photography, Egypt and its monuments have found themselves the subject of countless photographers, not to mention millions upon millions of tourists. The photogrammetric processes used to generate 3D datasets...

3D Models2020-07-10

Recreating the East Wall of the Hall of Offerings in Luxor Temple c. 1930, presented in 3D

Created by the Epigraphic Survey

The 3D model of the East Wall of the Hall of Offerings in Luxor Temple circa 1930 is a testament to how archival film negatives can be integrated with more recent digital images to reconstruct how a monument would have appeared in the past.

Associated Instagram Posts

Greyscale Fresco Texture Merged With the

Greyscale texture drawing superimposed over the background photo to enhance all visible details on the Roman murals

Astropad Studio Functioning as a Bridge Between Tablet and Laptop While Documenting the Late-Roman Murals at Luxor Temple

Traditional Penciling on Photo Enlargements in Order to Document the Faded Late Roman Murals at Luxor Temple

Color Film Photograph of a Test Cleaning Area on the Late-Roman Fresco Taken by Survey Photographer Yarko Kobilecky

Different renderings of a roman fresco mock-up area to test out various epigraphic representations

Documenting and Reconstructing the Late Roman Murals in the Roman Vestibule at Luxor Temple

Documenting and Reconstructing the Late-Roman Murals in the Imperial Cult Chamber at Luxor Temple

Inking the first panels of the Survey's Roman fresco drawings in the studio using a Wacom drawing display

Representing negative space with texturing in the Apse of the Emperor’s Chamber at Luxor Temple

Creating the special “lifting-up” effect in Photoshop for the cover photo of the Survey’s digital penciling case study

Using Photosop’s updated Warp Tool to unravel the late-Roman Apse at Luxor Temple

Digital penciling on the iPad Pro at Luxor Temple

Pencil texturing on photo enlargement documenting late-Roman murals at Luxor Temple

Detail of the texture-based inked drawing based on the Late-Roman painted remains at Luxor Temple

Digitally inked drawing created for testing the Survey's digital Chicago House Method at Luxor Temple

Adding pencil texture over photo enlargements at Luxor Temple working on the Late-Roman murals