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About LinkBacksthese are a couple pics i took - one of myself, one of my daughter Dani. i altered them to the extreme (using a combo of paintshop pro and hp image). thought they were fun & just wanted to share.
This is a discussion on extreme edits within the People photography (portraits, sports etc.) forums, part of the Show your photo (Color) - Landscape & Nature (flowers, mountains, storms etc.) category; these are a couple pics i took - one of myself, one of my daughter Dani. i altered them to ...
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these are a couple pics i took - one of myself, one of my daughter Dani. i altered them to the extreme (using a combo of paintshop pro and hp image). thought they were fun & just wanted to share.
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I really like the effect, it's very striking! I really like the effect it has in the first shot!
Can you describe the technique a bit more?
Thx
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well, for the most part, its simply a 'special effect' option on the hp image program (i think this program came with my printer...) it works better on certain photos, compared to others. i did some clean up and cropping on the paintshop pro program before the special effect was added.
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Hi,Originally Posted by marko
If you want to create this effect, it's quite quick to do in Adobe Illustrator CS3.
1. Insert the image onto the art board (page).
2. Select the image using the selection tool.
3. Towards the top there is a wide bar with a button titled "Live Trace". Hit this. Then there is a little boxy/table button on the left (in the same area). Click this.
4. Once your in this area, you can then get Illustrator to trace your image. To gain the effect showed here (excellent btw), try the following settings:
Black and white, Threshold: 69, Blur: 0, Fills: Enabled, Path Fitting: 2, Min Area: 10, Corner Angle: 20. Go.
Thanks,
Dan
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cool - thanks for the option dan! I may have to look into adobe illustrator...
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In Photoshop
image -adjustments-threshold (just move slider)
also gets you really close, really fast (maybe 25 seconds).
Though dmartins tipfor AI users looks like the edges might be more refined.
Last edited by Marko; 05-29-2008 at 12:56 AM.
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Wow showing us the originals really emphasises that even if a photo isn't a great one (or even not good at all) that you do have options quite often. Those edits are really cool and for me even better seeing as they originated from photos I'd have thrown away.
I hope that all came out as the compliment it was supposed to be.
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