Anyone willing to help??

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cksail
Oct 14, 2008
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I have a really, really old version of Photoshop at my work. Photoshop 7.0. I don’t really know anything about photoshop, except I resize photos sometimes.

I have been given the lucky task of taking a picture of someone and replicating a photo of the rapper, Proof, for one of our employees who passed away. We do not have a graphics department.

There is a T-shirt of Proof after he died and it’s in black and white, just the outline of his face. You can google it.

Is it possible to replicate this on a photo?

I’m sorry…I’m desperate here. I have been working on this for 3 hours now, with no luck —- decided to come on here and check.

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Phosphor
Oct 14, 2008
Not really sure what you’re asking. Do you want to combine the two images in some way? What final result are you looking for?
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cksail
Oct 14, 2008
The face of our employee (the photo) to be monotone….a black and white image. Not grayscale but solid black and white.
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Phosphor
Oct 14, 2008
Try Image>Adjustments>Threshold.
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Phosphor
Oct 14, 2008
Filter>Find Edges might be useful too.
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cksail
Oct 14, 2008
Didn’t know how to put a link in here, otherwise I would have. looking to take a color jpeg an turn it into black/white for a screened t-shirt. like this (hope the link works — again, not sure how to do that). <http://rensoul.com/images/artist_bigproof-pic01.jpg> thank you
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John_Mensinger
Oct 14, 2008
Of course, there’s no way to know all the details of how that image was done, but here’s what you should assume:

It started with a photograph, which a skilled artist then manipulated digitally with an eye toward producing that black/white depiction. At some point the image was probably traced to vectors and manipulated further by that skilled artist to get the smooth, accurate lines you see. It may have taken days.

There’s no "automated" way to get that look from a photo. The closest you’ll come may be some of Illustrator’s Live Trace presets, but even with Live Trace, the result depends squarely on the balance of the original image.
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J_Maloney
Oct 14, 2008
One way you can get quick results is to make the image grayscale, and then make a new adjustment layer… threshold, and target the shadow areas, making only them look good as a bitmap. Then hide that adjustment layer. Now do the same thing, but target the mid tones in the face, making them look good. Hide that layer. Do it again for the highlights. Now, invert all the masks associated with each adjustment layer and start painting back in the bitmap effect. If the highlight layer kills the eyes, try with the mid tone layer.

Another hint would be to up res your photo some (or at least make sure its big to begin with) and then blur it. Blurring will make the lines seem artistic and get you closer to that drawn effect. John M is right, an artist will have a hand on it (when you see it in the real world), but you can get quick and pleasing results without the art (well, you be the judge).

< http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=13AtqqLgIqaoMvamNm Dn67vKcFXeY51>
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Phosphor
Oct 14, 2008
First step:

Make sure that you’re using a high-resolution image to start with. And by high resolution, I’m talking 1200 pixels on the short side, minimum.

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