DAU Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Hey everyone, lately I have been trying to develop some kind of technique to make photos into paintings or comics, but they are never really good, especially the color part is pretty hard... I tried to use median, outline blurs posterize, curves and pencil sketch. But I didnt find any technique that works in general. So if anybody knows a nice way to get good paintings or comics out of photos please post a tutorial! If you have done some pictures and don't remember how you did it, also post! edit: I already read all available pdn tuts on this topic, you don't have to post them Quote ******************************Design as Underdog********************************** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncfan51 Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 For Paintings did you try the "Oil Painting" effect :? For comics, does the "Ink Sketch" plugin suit your needs? Quote +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ I am a disco dancer. +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAU Posted January 7, 2008 Author Share Posted January 7, 2008 Umm sorry, tried both of them.... Oil paintings can sometimes be helpful but you just don't get any comiclike borders and the ink sketches always leave lots of black points everywhere. Anyway, thanks for replying! Quote ******************************Design as Underdog********************************** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncfan51 Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 I'm not sure if this will work or not (I haven't tried this; I'm doing this from the top of my head). You could find the picture, and duplicate it. On the bottom layer, you could apply the Pencil Sketch effect with your likened settings. Then on the top, lower the opacity and possibly change the blending mode. EDIT: Nevermind it doesn't work good. I remember an old topic about a solution to this but I can't seem to find it Quote +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ I am a disco dancer. +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Ryan Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 there use to be a Pastel effect lurking around in the shadows somewhere, I remember it not being real effective but it could help you out with your color. As For your outlines, I would simply say manualy find the shapes. I would tell you to use Outline, Edge Detect, and Emboss to find the important lines, and in a seperate layer use the :LineCurveTool: Line/ Curve tool. Could you post one of the pictures that you are trying to convert? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAU Posted January 7, 2008 Author Share Posted January 7, 2008 With the line tool it gets a lot easier, but with some images it is pretty hard to use and it normally also takes a lot of time. Lets just take a random image and you can show me your results... Quote ******************************Design as Underdog********************************** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Ryan Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 That took me about ten minutes, and of course need a lot more work. I just used edge detect and the line/ curve tool with the paintbrush and gradients. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xune Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Load the Full size for better quality Something like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAU Posted January 7, 2008 Author Share Posted January 7, 2008 looks pretty nice Xune. Did you do it with the "Real photos ~ real screentone" tutorial?? @MR52: You have nice skills for that, but I am more looking fore something without having to draw any lines or borders because some pictures would just take forever... Quote ******************************Design as Underdog********************************** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acrosstheuniverse Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Ink sketch can introduce a lot of noice it's true. One solution would be to make a duplicate layer for your outline that you would ink sketch with the color slider all the way down and just lasso select out the noise. Then set it to multiply and do whatever blending, bluring, or rendering you want with the base tab for the color. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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