A Different Approach To Pop Art Conversions
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Couldn't say with that one as I had to copy the screen on every step to make the tutorial, so, it took quite a long time. So in an effort to answer your question, I ran one this morning to see how long it would take. This image took me about 35 minutes to pull off: To be fair though, the original pic I used for this one doesn't have a lot of small details so the edges I needed to trace where minimal. The amount of time needed is going be determined somewhat by that variable. The key here of course, is learning to use the pen tool, which is tricky.Dollarhyde wrote:That's very cool B-M how long did that take you to you?
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That one's my fav too Han. Here I tried to capture more of the semi transparencies and other details in the nightie she's wearing. Like I said, it's a work in progresshanuman37 wrote:All wonderful; thanks! But this is my favorite...
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Yes Indeed it did! An interesting effect. I too have Blender, but was never able to get anywhere with it, (even bought a "Dummies" book). Here's one of that pic of Candy I did this evening using a technique I developed myself in Photoshop using components from other techniques I got out of books and internet tutorials that I combined to come up with the method I now use in the Cover Doll comic feature Kharn and I produce.Fusen Shinro wrote:I borrowed Candy to test a pseudo halftone convertor I'm working on in Blender.. Came out pretty nice
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Yeah, an automated process like this is never going to match hand tweaked stuff. It does however have the advantage of only having 10 controls (well at least until I think of another way to improve it!). Speaking of which, I've improved the black cut off so it adds a slight blur to smooth the edges and lets you mix a variable amount of the original shade back in rather than having to be solid black.b-man wrote:Yes Indeed it did! An interesting effect. I too have Blender, but was never able to get anywhere with it, (even bought a "Dummies" book). Here's one of that pic of Candy I did this evening using a technique I developed myself in Photoshop using components from other techniques I got out of books and internet tutorials that I combined to come up with the method I now use in the Cover Doll comic feature Kharn and I produce.
So now I can go from this: To this in less than a minute Basically everything works by adjusting the V channel in HSV colour space. The level controls just set the point at which the V value is replaced with the dot patterns. I'm using features that aren't in a released version of Blender yet though - it's a nightly build from about a week ago..
Blender is one of those apps you have to learn to use though, it's not one to just play around pressing buttons to see what happens.
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Also, in Photoshop Elements I like using the posterize filter, poster edges filter and watercolor filter. They are fairly easy to use and can create good effects.
When I first started using the Photoshop Elements filters, I was using Tiff images and most of the filters would not work! I discovered I needed to convert the Tiff images from 16 bit to 8 bit in order for Photoshop Elements to allow me to use all the filters. I could not work out how to do this in Photoshop Elements, but it was easy for me to convert them with the Nikon Capture NX2 program I am familiar with. With this program, I just had to resave the image with the 'Save As' command to select the 8 bit option. I hope this is of any use to people who are having the same problem I had.