Little project...

[j0n]

I thought that it would be intresting to try and change a picture of one of my close friends to look like someone from Jet Set Radio.

Is there an easy way to simpley "cell shade" a picture?

Here is the image if any of you want to have a go..

http://www.jonwheatley.co.uk/pics/pic3.JPG

Cheers Jon

[korruptking]

hey i wouldn't mind knowing this without flash vector tracing it

[j0n]

Hummm... i have been looking around for some tuts.. not had anyluck

[j0n]

Can anyone help me on this question / problem ?

[poLka]

photoshop?

[DaveMaxwell]

This might get you part of what you want:
http://www.psppower.com/2001october/...caricature.htm

Then use the line art coloring techniques covered here:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/gi/dyn...arp%2Fcomic%2F
or
http://graphicssoft.about.com/gi/dyn...torial_14.html
or
http://tutorials.dragonsoulgallery.c...hop/cel01.html

-- OR --
Some start to finish tutorials (though end results aren't finished very well...):
http://www.abweb.us/tutorial001.html
or
http://www.w2mw.org/tutorGordon/gordon.html
or
http://apartment42.com/xlesson3.htm (not really what you want, but a cool end result)

[DaveMaxwell]

This might get you part of what you want:
http://www.psppower.com/2001october/...caricature.htm

Just to show how painfully easy this tut is, here's your friend after about five minutes:



Obvisouly it could be MUCH cleaner, and better colored, and such, but it gets the basic concept....

[poLka]

sweet job Dave, *hat goes off*

[graphixkid]

Here's my little try. I simply played around with the Poster Edges filter in Photoshop.

[platinum]

Just do it in illustrator and trace it yaself
Here's a start

[dynagirl]

I took a stab at it:

[ThaVincy]

I took a stab at it:

Holy f*** ! That is SO awesome. How did you do this? Some fx or just done by hand?

[KC]

I would say that last pic from dynagirl is fantastic. Worthy of its own tutorial thread in the Multimedia and Graphics forum. Wow!

[j0n]

WOW! This has helped me loads!

Thanks everyone.

I think i will edit one and use it as my avatar

thanks again!
j0n

[dynagirl]

Thanks for the compliments!

The process was very time consuming, but not complicated. It was basically lots and lots of hand coloring (in PhotoShop). What I did was use the poster edges filter on the photo (Edge Thickness 2, Edge Intensity 1, Posterization 2) to simplify the colors. From there, I blacked out the background--using the paintbrush to get a good isolation of the image. Next, I picked 3 colors for the flesh tone, 4 colors (including white) for the shirt, 3 colors for the hair, and I started hand coloring with the paint brush. Oh, I had to deviate a bit from my simple color pallet for the mouth, eyes and nostril.

Of course, I worked in layers, so that the photo was one layer, the posterized version was another layer and my painting was done on a third layer. I frequently turned the poster layer off and on so I could jump back and forth between painting over the poster layer and over the photo layer when I needed a different perspective to decide how to paint it. When I was satisfied, I flattened the whole thing so that any gaps in the hand-painting were taken up by the poster layer below it. I'd say the final product is about 99% hand-painted.

To finish it off, I selected the black background, inverted the selection to grab the image, fiddled a bit with the selection size to allow for a black edge around the image, then pasted it in to a new transparent document. The final step was a black paintbrush (3 px) touch-up--I went through and made some lines on the shirt and smoothed some of the border edges. After that, I saved it as a gif image with gray-blend matte.

I have to say, I was very pleased with the end result. Glad everyone else likes it too.

[j0n]

My friend was really really happy! I showed him this thread and he was very impressed.

*gives reputation points*