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# I've been fiddling with hundreds of filters
but I'm having a job making a picture into a two tone Che Guevara style thing - does anyone have any ideas what the best way to do it is?
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 22:53, archived)
# note:
I am too tired to paintmash it. please don't tell me to paintmash it.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 22:53, archived)
# Not easy
I'm afraid

Sorry to say it, but paintmashing it probably the easiest way unless there's a lot of very good light and shadow in the pic, in which case you can reduce to 2 colours and then run a despeckle filter.
(I helped save b3ta! ?!, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 22:55, archived)
# That's the one's I've been using
never mind, it can wait until tommorrow.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 22:58, archived)
# Huh?
it is 2-tone already... what is it you're after doing exactly?

In Photoslop, change the colourtable thingy to Bitmap and that'll make it a purely black/white image...
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 22:55, archived)
# Doing a quick fnord...
I didn't realise that the Che pic was an example, silly me - the bitmap thing will work though, as will adjusting the brightness and contrast whole huge amounts... maximum contrast will make it a purely black/white image, and you can adjust the contrast to determines how much detail remains from the original.

Edit: Damn, Fnord actually posted the same thing before I saw and posted this - I really did do a fnord! ;-)
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 22:59, archived)
# Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiss
(Mr Chuckles, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 23:03, archived)
# can we
see the picture?

and look! it's a giant laser (space) kitten! ;)
(I helped save b3ta! rogan, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 22:55, archived)
# I was good!
I wooed it, I really wasn't expecting this many people to answer me.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 23:13, archived)
# no, I just
thought it was funny 'cos we were talking about giant space laser kittens earlier!
(I helped save b3ta! rogan, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 23:19, archived)
# Perhaps setting the threshold
to medium (ie 128) would do the trick.
Image>Adjustments>Threshold...
(I helped save b3ta! Jimmeh, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 22:57, archived)
# I don't think I've tried that
thanks
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 22:58, archived)
# You might want to blur it afterwards too.
It ends up looking very pixellated when I try it.
:)
(I helped save b3ta! Jimmeh, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 23:01, archived)
# yes
I can get it so far, then it just looks a bit speckly / pixelly and it won't be fixed by despeckling. ho hum.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 23:03, archived)
# it's VERY EASY :)
i'm sure there's a way to do it easily anyway, there usually is, i never find it until much later though.

You jusy need to use the 'levels' go to the levels slider and drag from the left and the right until the contrast is just how you want it.
Making the pic greysclae first may help.
You could even do it in a rudimentary way using the brightness contrast - but levels is the right way to do it.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 22:58, archived)
# Yes
levels will do the job (but I prefer curves)
(I helped save b3ta! Duncan Disorderly, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 23:01, archived)
# curves are good for colours
but for this specific job levels are better suited i think. (pretends to know what he's talking about)
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 23:04, archived)
# I thought it would be very easy
too ;)
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 23:01, archived)
# In PotatoShop;
Curves (control-M)
Then move the curve & you get a preview...
It might pay you to muve the ends of the curve inwards.
(I helped save b3ta! Duncan Disorderly, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 22:59, archived)
# Can you not fiddle with the levels...
CTRL+L

Or Image: Adjust: Threshold - probably is better
(I helped save b3ta! Tart Monkey, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 22:56, archived)
# oooh
I'm overwhelmed with help!
Thankyou all - I shall be testin these things out.
:)
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 23:00, archived)
# Try putting it in flash
and selcting "trace Bitmap" from some menu or other, results are usially a nightmare, but they come out abit like that.

DO NOT TRY IT ON A SLOW COMPUTER!
(I helped save b3ta! oceanhippie, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 22:56, archived)
# maybe
you can get that kind of effect by using an image as a mask of itself then playing with the contrast on the mask layer? (Copy the image, apply a mask layer, then paste the image onto the mask). You can certainly get some interesting effects by doing that, but I'm not sure exactly what results you'd get!

edit - actually, I;ve just had a quick play, and I doubt that'll work! Still interesting to play with though! :O)
(I helped save b3ta! barnesy, Mon 31 Mar 2003, 22:56, archived)