Making a coloring book from photos

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Doug Nelson
Aug 18, 2003
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This was the topic of one of our Challenges. We got a few submissions, with varying degrees of success. Feel free to take a look, most have information about how they were done.

http://www.retouchpro.com/challenge/manipulation/challenge18 /index.html
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Harold Morgan
Aug 18, 2003
I’m still working on this myself, but so far it seems the first step is to reduce the number of colors in the photos. Filter / Artistic / Cutout seems to do a pretty good job here.

The second step seems best handled with a program called ImpressionX – it will put a number to represent a color on a b/w rendition of the photo from step one.

Like I said, this is a concept in progress. If you come up with something better, please forward it along.

"Brian Bledsoe" wrote in message
Is there a plug-in to create coloring book pages from photos? Or perhaps a
tutorial?
If not, is there software that will do this?

Thanks!

Brian
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Bernie
Aug 18, 2003
Brian,

Wacom has instructions for doing this at:

< http://www.wacom.com/tips/tip.cfm?ID=10&category=Photosh op>

"Crayon by Number" software is a variation on the traditional Paint-by-Number pictures, but using crayons instead of oil paints or acrylic paints. It takes a photo and converts it into a "crayon-by-number" graphic.

<http://www.crayonbynumber.com/>

There are many programs, including Adobe’s Streamline, that "vectorize" a bitmap by converting it into vector or line art, but they give disappointing results for use as coloring book pages because the lines aren’t simple enough.

— Burton — (not associated with any mentioned vendor)
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viol8ion
Aug 18, 2003
Brian

Adobe’s Streamline will easily convert photos into line drawings, and it is only $129.

Another quick method is to open a photo.
Duplicate the layer, then image>adjustments>desaturate the new layer. Duplicate that layer.
Image>adjustments>Invert that layer.
Then in Blending Options to that layer choose linear dodge. The layer turns all white, don’t worry.
Then to that layer Filter>blur>gaussian blur, play with the settings to get outlines… that may give you enough to play with depending on what you started with.

I don’t know who originally posted this method, but thanks, I use it often.

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