changing a photo image into a graphic image

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Kathy_Delaney
Nov 5, 2008
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I am a new user to Photoshop – it came with my CS3. My OS is Windows XP. I have 1 G of RAM.

I am interested in changing a photograph into a flat graphic image like clip art. I do not know what it is called and so I don’t know how to look it up for directions. But I think it must be possible as I have seen someone do it without permission to a sample of my artwork. I assume they took a photo of the art and then converted it some way to a graphic.

I thought this might be an affect one can use on a photo, but again, I don’t know what the right terms are.

Any help would be most appreciated so I may look this up and learn the process. Thank you.

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J_Maloney
Nov 5, 2008
<http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b6bd69/6>

You can play with posterize (under image… adjustments) and also do some google searches with line art as a keyword (convert photo to line art gets a bunch of hits). Unfortunately, what typically is best about this "effect" is the fact that a real live artist drew the lines, making them more dramatic and interesting than a photo’s.

J

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