Editing – How can I get this effect?

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Win2Lin Lynn
Mar 18, 2006
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Hello. I want to create a similar effect with one of *my own* photos, as compared what was done to the photo of Elvis Presley in the following image:

http://i1.tinypic.com/rlwc9d.gif

Any tips? Suggestions? What *not* to do?

(I have Photoshop 7, Elements 3.0, and Gimp 2)

Thanks!

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Joseph Meehan
Mar 18, 2006
Win2Lin Lynn wrote:
Hello. I want to create a similar effect with one of *my own* photos, as compared what was done to the photo of Elvis Presley in the following image:

http://i1.tinypic.com/rlwc9d.gif

Any tips? Suggestions? What *not* to do?

(I have Photoshop 7, Elements 3.0, and Gimp 2)

Thanks!

Go monochrome and then up the contrast, adjusting the brightness as you go.


Joseph Meehan

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Skip Middleton
Mar 18, 2006
"Win2Lin Lynn" wrote in message
Hello. I want to create a similar effect with one of *my own* photos, as compared what was done to the photo of Elvis Presley in the following image:

http://i1.tinypic.com/rlwc9d.gif

Any tips? Suggestions? What *not* to do?

(I have Photoshop 7, Elements 3.0, and Gimp 2)

Thanks!

Here’s one I tried, in PShop7.
Image/Adjustments/Posterize/Desaturate/Contrast. Worked the contrast until it looked like the image you posted. But you could have figured that out, too, just by experimentation.


Skip Middleton
http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com
Win2Lin Lynn wrote:
Hello. I want to create a similar effect with one of *my own* photos, as compared what was done to the photo of Elvis Presley in the following image:

http://i1.tinypic.com/rlwc9d.gif

Any tips? Suggestions? What *not* to do?

(I have Photoshop 7, Elements 3.0, and Gimp 2)

Finger paints…
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Win2Lin Lynn
Mar 18, 2006
"Skip M" wrote in
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"Win2Lin Lynn" wrote in message
Hello. I want to create a similar effect with one of *my own* photos, as compared what was done to the photo of Elvis Presley in the following image:

http://i1.tinypic.com/rlwc9d.gif

Any tips? Suggestions? What *not* to do?

(I have Photoshop 7, Elements 3.0, and Gimp 2)

Thanks!

Here’s one I tried, in PShop7.
Image/Adjustments/Posterize/Desaturate/Contrast. Worked the contrast until it looked like the image you posted. But you could have figured that out, too, just by experimentation.

Thanks. I tried those adjustments, and it worked out nicely. But how do I change the white section of the photo to the color of my choice?
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Dave
Mar 18, 2006
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:01:35 -0800, "Mark²" <mjmorgan(lowest even number here)@cox..net> wrote:

Finger paints…

more probably the lowest number here; even & uneven)

Dave
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Pat
Mar 18, 2006
You could always shoot film and make a Kodalith internegative. Ooops, wrong group for that idea. 🙂
RB
Randy Berbaum
Mar 18, 2006
In rec.photo.digital Win2Lin Lynn wrote:

: Thanks. I tried those adjustments, and it worked out nicely. But how : do I change the white section of the photo to the color of my choice?

Two choices. Use the hue function (I don’t have my copy of elements in front of me so I am not sure of the correct menu name) to tint the entire image the apropriate color. The black will remain black, but the white would take on the color. Or you could use the paint bucket to drop the color into the white sections. It will spread to all the congruent (uninterrupted) areas of the same color as where you drop the paint. The unchanged areas will be the ones that are completely surrounded by the black areas. The text could be added in a seperate layer ontop of the background (be sure to designate a transparent background) and can then be colored seperately.

There is a third choice but could be a bit tricky and require lots of manual fixing of errors. You could select all the white areas and cut them out. Then placing a colored background under the original would give you a colored background. The plus to this is you could have any kind of background, even a rainbow hued one. The down side is that any inaccuracy in trimming around the black lines would result in a white outline around the black parts that would remain ontop of the colored background. And trimming around any fine lines can be very finicky work.

Randy

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Randy Berbaum
Champaign, IL
Dave wrote:
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:01:35 -0800, "Mark
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madhobbit.geo
Mar 18, 2006
Win2Lin Lynn wrote:
Thanks. I tried those adjustments, and it worked out nicely. But how do I change the white section of the photo to the color of my choice?

A couple of options (using Photoshop 6), roughly in order of increasing complexity:

– Use the flood fill tool. Set the tolerance to 255 and the mode to Multiply. Whatever color you fill with will affect the entire image

– Add a fill layer on top of the image (Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color). Change its blending mode to multiply. Alternately, you can put the fill layer below the image, and change the image’s layer to multiply. Same effect either way.

– Use a gradient map (Image -> Adjust -> Gradient Map). Use a solid gradient, smoothness 100%, with two control points, one at each extreme. Set the left-hand control point to black, and the right-hand control point to the color you want.

– Make the image a duotone. In PS 6, you have to convert it to grayscale first (Image -> Mode -> Grayscale) then to duotone (Image -> Mode -> Duotone). In the Duotone dialog, make sure the type is set to Duotone. Change Ink 1 to Black, and Ink 2 to the color you want. Then adjust the curves so that Ink 1 is 0% at 0 and 100% at 100, and Ink 2 is 100% at 0 and also 100% at 100.

Have fun,
– Darryl
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Tacit
Mar 18, 2006
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Win2Lin Lynn wrote:

Thanks. I tried those adjustments, and it worked out nicely. But how do I change the white section of the photo to the color of my choice?

The other options given to you so far are needlessly complex and not terribly effective.

The easiest way to do this is also the way that gives the cleanest results, and it’s a simple 2-step process.

Step 1: Put a layer beneath your picture that is filled with the color you want.

Step 2: Set the blending mode on the layer with the picture to Multiply.


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mianileng
Mar 18, 2006
Win2Lin Lynn wrote:

Hello. I want to create a similar effect with one of *my own* photos, as compared what was done to the photo of Elvis Presley in the following image:

http://i1.tinypic.com/rlwc9d.gif

Any tips? Suggestions? What *not* to do?

(I have Photoshop 7, Elements 3.0, and Gimp 2)

Thanks!

I made a quick attempt with Irfanview and came up with passable results. Here’s what I did –

1. Convert to greyscale
2. Decrease color depth (untick dithering option). Depending on the original photo and the desired results, reduce to 2, 3 or 4 colors.
3. Enhance colors : adjust brightness, contrast, gamma and color
balance. Again depending on the photo and the desired result, you may have to adjust all or only some of these.

You may not even have to use a painting program to fill in the highlight area with the desired color.
PF
Paul Furman
Mar 18, 2006
wrote:

– Make the image a duotone. In PS 6, you have to convert it to grayscale first (Image -> Mode -> Grayscale) then to duotone (Image -> Mode -> Duotone). In the Duotone dialog, make sure the type is set to Duotone. Change Ink 1 to Black, and Ink 2 to the color you want. Then adjust the curves so that Ink 1 is 0% at 0 and 100% at 100, and Ink 2 is 100% at 0 and also 100% at 100.

This one gets my vote.
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kctan
Mar 18, 2006
Go to Image Menu, under Adjustments>Desaturate to get gray tones. Go in to Adjustments again > Posterize… and key in 2 to get black and white tones. Add new layer, fill in the color you want with Multiple blending mode.

"Win2Lin Lynn" wrote in message
Hello. I want to create a similar effect with one of *my own* photos, as compared what was done to the photo of Elvis Presley in the following image:

http://i1.tinypic.com/rlwc9d.gif

Any tips? Suggestions? What *not* to do?

(I have Photoshop 7, Elements 3.0, and Gimp 2)

Thanks!
K
kctan
Mar 18, 2006
Another way without creating a new layer.

Go to Image Menu, under Adjustments>Desaturate to get gray tones. Go into Adjustments again > Posterize… and key in level 2 to get black and white tones.
Go to Edit Menu>Fill…and choose your choice of content -"Foreground color", Background color" or "Color…" with "Multiply" Blending mode.

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