Photoshop How can I get real photos to look like this?
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[Photoshop] - How can I get real photos to look like this?
I saw this Rick Ross logo awhile back and like how it looked. It's his face turned almost into a cartoon or just black and white. I was wondering if there were filters for photoshop where you could take a real photo and make the person face look like this. Any help would be great. Thanks
You have to desaturate your photo Photoshop and then increase the contrast. Afterwards you have to vectorize it in Illustrator. Do it manually for the best result.
With something like that, there isn't a "Filter" that you run and it comes out perfect. It can take some tweaking to get it just right. The "Stamp" filter in photoshop comes closest. Or if you have a vector program (illustrator, Corel) you could trace it in there and get a similar result.
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Last edited by prometheus; February 26th, 2008 at 06:20 AM.
That design might have been started with contrast and messing with levels, but that is an illustration from what came from the previous method, or Go media magazine has a action that turns pictures into seperate colors and then turn those into paths and bring into illustator to mess with the cartoon look. That wasnt made just using contrast and desatuarate.
just my .06 cents
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I have a nice tablet that I paid about $90 for. You can get them from anywhere for about that. As far as that look, Illustrator would definitely be the way to go. I do a lot of things like this (with slightly more detail) and I dont use any photoshop. I attached one that I did of myself.
I did something along the lines of that also, no so
"vectorized" but I desaturated the image and then used the stamp effect in photoshop to produce this:
How can I get real photos to look like this? 
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