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[Photoshop] - turning photos into black and white only
hi all, i just wanted to let everyone on this forum know that i am kindly grateful for all the information that is shared here. on the other hand, i would like to know how to make a photo into a black or white image with just the primary spots covered so it would be super easy to put on a screen or shirt. it is very hard to explain but i have posted an example i got from a website.
Honestly, imo the best way to do something like your example is to just make an "artistic" tracing of the actual image itself. Best to use Adobe Illustrator since it's vector and you will be able to scale the final artwork to any size you wish.
Use the "Stamp" filter. Make sure your colors (foreground/background) are set to black and white. The original image will have a lot to do with what you can achieve with this.
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What you're showing us is a vector made image. You can not make this type of designs in Photoshop using only the effect tools, brightness/contrast etc. You'll have to do some manual labor here and start tracing the image and separate the dark sides from the lighter sides. In some images you don't have enough black sides or white sides so you'll have to put them yourself.
Try using Illustrator.
I do all this type of images in Photoshop cause I don't like to work in vector programs... I use Ilustrator only to make a live trace after the design is ready to be able to make it scalable.
No offense but this can easily be done in photoshop. With effects. I snaked an image of Jon off the net and ran a quick stamp filter on it. Once again I statd that the original image has a lot to do with it and I just quickly grabbed one, but you get the point. It could then be brought into Illustrator and traced if needed for vector. This would be quicker than tracing it by hand in Illustrator.
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convert the image to grayscale.
run the highpass filter to get better detail
next adjust the threshold until you get the amount of deatil your happy with. Easily done in PS.
Can easily be done in CorelDRAW on a bitmap than traced to vector.
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No offense but this can easily be done in photoshop. With effects. I snaked an image of Jon off the net and ran a quick stamp filter on it. Once again I statd that the original image has a lot to do with it and I just quickly grabbed one, but you get the point. It could then be brought into Illustrator and traced if needed for vector. This would be quicker than tracing it by hand in Illustrator.
I agree with you... I was talking about lighter images. Like you said the quality of the image makes everything.
No offense but this can easily be done in photoshop. With effects. I snaked an image of Jon off the net and ran a quick stamp filter on it. Once again I statd that the original image has a lot to do with it and I just quickly grabbed one, but you get the point. It could then be brought into Illustrator and traced if needed for vector. This would be quicker than tracing it by hand in Illustrator.
Yea, I agree Robert I just didn’t elaborate .
What I was really trying to say was that when you learn to work comfortably with the pen tool (Illustrator or high-res Photoshop) your results will always be better (if the user has artistic ability), because you will have total control over what your doing no matter what the image may be. But if someone is just beginning or has little artistic ability, definitely check out the filters in Photoshop and mess around with their settings until you get familiar with the pen tool.
What I was really trying to say was that when you learn to work comfortably with the pen tool (Illustrator or high-res Photoshop) your results will always be better (if the user has artistic ability), because you will have total control over what your doing no matter what the image may be. But if someone is just beginning or has little artistic ability, definitely check out the filters in Photoshop and mess around with their settings until you get familiar with the pen tool.
True. When it comes to vectors, I usually like to do it myself. Tracing can create too many nodes/points. It is much cleaner that way.
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How can you take a color photo and turn it into just black and white in corel draw? I have a picture of 2 little girls a gentlment is wanting made into a silhoutte for his logo. can this be done in cored draw???? how can i get rid of the extras that are in the photo that are not needed?? (newbie question sorry)
How can you take a color photo and turn it into just black and white in corel draw? I have a picture of 2 little girls a gentlment is wanting made into a silhoutte for his logo. can this be done in cored draw???? how can i get rid of the extras that are in the photo that are not needed?? (newbie question sorry)
The way mentioned in the link Rodney posted is better yet this will work for a lot of images.
Select the bitmap. Go to Bitmaps/Mode and select black & white (1 bit) and Change the conversion method to Line art. Adjust the slider (threshold) until you get your desired look.
Open the resulting image in PowerTrace and trace to vector
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