How to create these kind of images?

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Devlin
May 14, 2005
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Hi, I’m new to these boards, and I’m wondering how these kind of images using photoshop 6?

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I have a few photographs of my family that I’d like to convert into these simple 3,4 or 5-colour images, but i just cant find the right combination of techniques and/or filters.
As I said, I’m using the bog-standard photoshop 6 with no extra plug-ins or filters.

Thanks everyone 🙂

Devlin
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hallinan
May 14, 2005
maybe the Cutout filter?
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Sepen
May 15, 2005
You are trying to achieve a vector look… The best way to actually do this is to open up the original image in Illustrator, grab the pen tool and start tracing over the top of it. This of course, is a 100% manual process and probably not what you had in mind but is what looks like was done at least with most of those.

Closest you are going to get in Photoshop with an automatic method would be Image> Adjust> Posterize and then to experiment with the number of "Levels" which will essentially be the number of colors (including shades) in the image. The lower the number, the fewer the colors. Taking it down to just two will give you solid black 100% against solid white 100%

You can then go under Filter> Noise> Median and slowly bring the slider from left to right to get rid of some of the sharp noisy edges without loosing all detail. It won’t be anywhere near as nice as doing it by hand but that is the trade off from taking what take thirty minutes to hours of experienced hand work and replacing it with an image adjustment and a filter.

If you choose to go the Photoshop route, I’d suggest starting off with a high resolution picture or by increasing the size of a low one using "Bicubic Smoother" and then applying a slight Gaussian blur to it to hide the pixelation before going forward with Posterize to help give you smoother lines.
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Margaret_McDowell
May 15, 2005
Try asking at Worth1000.com.
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chrisjbirchall
May 15, 2005
Image>Adjustements>Posterize will give you a similar effect. You can adjust the number of colour included in the image.

Chris
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Sepen
May 15, 2005
Chris,

I’m pretty sure it has been in there for a while.
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Rob_Keijzer
May 15, 2005
I’d say Posterize too. Use three or four colours, and change them by replacing colour.

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Burton_Ogden
May 15, 2005
Devlin,

The images you cited are most likely vector graphics. The individual color areas are polygons bounded by straight line segments. The straight lines add significantly to the composition of the artwork. That is particularly obvious in the Darth Vader image. Neither Photoshop’s Cutout filter nor Photoshop’s Posterize filter can achieve a straight-line-segment vectorized effect.

To get your color areas bounded by straight line segments you will need to use a separate raster-to-vector program. Most such programs will give you the option of straight-line-segment boundaries and some may also offer Bezier type curve options.

— Burton —
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deebs
May 15, 2005
In the days of printing inks, squeegees, and when mesh and frames meant fabric and wood I seem to recall that these were called screenprints.

Surely soneone has created a screenprint plugin? Or at least one effect that is part of an even grander plugin?

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