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Requested by Mstandot - couldn't find a workable pic of The Boss :(
Stevie Wonder
Hendrix and Mercury
Lemmy
Thom Yorke

The Lemmy one looks damn good on A4 :)
I'm thinking of doing some much larger versions myself and getting them printed at A3 or A2.
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:25,
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I'm thinking of doing some much larger versions myself and getting them printed at A3 or A2.

How do you make them, exactly?
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:26,
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create a text layer and duplicated it as many times as you want for the various colours/shades of grey. Make the text into the colour you want. Rasterize the text layers. Then it's a process of selecting an area of colour to match a layer and then inverting that selection. Repeat for each layer and create one bottom layer of white. Job done. No trace of the original image is left :)
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:29,
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Phwooooooar. I'd be up for some of that action. *shoves fiver in your knickers*
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:27,
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I still love the Lemmy one, but the Stevie Wonder one has the most detail and certainly has the greatest "wow" factor I think.
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:27,
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Bit nutty about him. You won't run dry of
suggestions, but Eno has lots of pics to use.
*stops nudging elbow*
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:31,
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suggestions, but Eno has lots of pics to use.
*stops nudging elbow*

but you suck at searching...
images.google.ie/images?q=springsteen&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENIE276&sa=N&imgsz=huge
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:25,
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images.google.ie/images?q=springsteen&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENIE276&sa=N&imgsz=huge

but finding pics that then work is a lot more difficult. I wasted about 3 hours last night on a picture of The Boss but had to bin it.
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:26,
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This is art god damn it!
;P
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:28,
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;P

or at least, looking for cool ideas, I reckon you couldn't go wrong with a bit of Jerry Garcia...
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:32,
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but it will be a few days or more. I'm trying to go through some really instantly recognisable ones first and then move on to the pet projects for you lovely peeps :)
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:37,
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otherwise, do whatever the hell you like!
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:39,
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the text at the top was the most tricky. That took longer than the rest of the image :o
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:30,
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I'm enjoying doing them (well, apart from the binning of poor pictures after spending 3 hours trying to make it work, when clearly it wasn't going to work in the first place :o)
Thinking Tina Tuner as my next one :D. Tried Presley this morning and it just did not work.
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:34,
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Thinking Tina Tuner as my next one :D. Tried Presley this morning and it just did not work.

I hope you are tagging these, They'll be seen in Camden in no time!
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:39,
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yes, of course I am
/rushes off to tag the photos
And how could I have forgotten Bob Marley. This was mentioned over the weekend and I completely forgot about it :o
Marley's up next :D
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:41,
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/rushes off to tag the photos
And how could I have forgotten Bob Marley. This was mentioned over the weekend and I completely forgot about it :o
Marley's up next :D

And seriously do tag them, this kind of thing sells easily.
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:50,
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thanks for reminding me. I had done the Thom Yorke one, but forgot with the others.
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:54,
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The Springsteen is square so it might difficult to get printed as a standard size.
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:57,
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Time for some research, methinks.
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 10:55,
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But the volume of people buying them makes it worth while ...... if you're sitting on a stall all day selling similar stuff anyway.
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 11:02,
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Just have to find a decent print service to make it viable.
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Mon 22 Sep 2008, 11:08,
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oddly, one of my friends suggested the same thing over the weekend!
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