cjm Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Hi everyone, new to this site, though had software for some time. I have a problem and little time to search this forum and understand some of the buzz words used. I am trying to create a theater poster - A3 - using a downloaded image of an Edwardian man and woman for a production of Les Fiancés des Loches. Yes, it's French, cos that's where I live. The director wants the image which is more grey than colour as a silhouette. So, how might I do this? Also I want to copy the male image (I can crop the male/female image to create separate male) and then turn the image, so he is facing left to right and not right to left as in origiinal. I am desperate for advice in non tech terms. I want to create poster in OpenOffice which I use with Drawing facility for newsletters for groups I am member of. PM me if that helps, or would be happy to Skype. I've said to the director I can do this by end of week! Image attached I have changed to a sepia, original is more grey. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Hi cjm, welcome to the forum! There are a couple of silhouette plugins that might help e.g. silhouette Plus If that doesn't produce the solution you desire, we may have to get all technical (gasp!) and try some image filtering. The trick here is to remove the background (alternatively: make it white) while retaining the foreground elements (the people). Off the top of my head I'm thinking that this plugin might be worth trying Black and Alpha+ Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oma Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 open your image make duplicate layer of it (you have two exactly alike) on top on set brightness/contrast -21 and 100 on bottom one 0 and 100 use rectangle select and cut out the bottom half of the top one. merge the two layers use your paint brush with white to get rid of the writting. ciao OMA Quote My Deviant Art Gallery Oma's Paint.Net gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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