
It's in one of the early posts, but basically create a bunch of layers for each colour and remove everything that doesn't match that colour. The grayscale images usually use ~5 layers. This one used 22 layers. The idea being that there's nothing of the original image left.
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Fri 4 Jun 2010, 22:04,
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using the blending options but you just do it yourself. Gotcha.
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by just using a clipping mask. But again, that would be too easy.
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Fri 4 Jun 2010, 22:10,
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but you know to me, a lazy cunt, I can see a quick way to do it. And you have established that you don't do that so all good.
The result is the only thing that counts and the results are good.
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Fri 4 Jun 2010, 22:26,
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The result is the only thing that counts and the results are good.

i see what you're doing. that's a hell of a lot of effort, i'm impressed.
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Fri 4 Jun 2010, 22:08,
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the monochrome ones normally only take about 30 minutes, but the colour ones take a lot longer - think this one took about 3 hours. Most of the time is waiting though.
The finished articles look pretty decent though. The following is one that somebody got framed up at full size (59cm high)
Master of Puppets album cover
Photo posted with permission of the owner of the framed picture
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Fri 4 Jun 2010, 22:48,
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The finished articles look pretty decent though. The following is one that somebody got framed up at full size (59cm high)
Master of Puppets album cover
Photo posted with permission of the owner of the framed picture

i'm so tempted to abuse university printing rights and get that one printed out at poster size.
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