Trippin

Any ideas how to turn a photo into outlines , for example I have photo of myself that i want to turn into funky outline figure that I can use for design (logo) or turn it into a stencil , but would like to achieve nice edges so the shape is recognised. Cheers

Hercules

Trippin welcome to the forum and enjoy your stay.

For the stencil you can find a tutorial here:

http://www.stencilrevolution.com/tut...sview.php?id=4

If you would like to make a scetch from the photo check this tread

http://www.photoshopgurus.info/forum...=2121&start=15
and this
http://www.photoshopgurus.info/forum...r=asc&start=60

and this link:
http://www.heathrowe.com/tuts/sketch.asp


Hope that can help.

Trippin

Heya thanks for that some interesting stuff there , I was already member of stencilrevolution hehe they're actually based in my city now ... I ended up mixing those techniques that were suggested and came up with some nice stuff ... anyway I appreciate your effort , what about the outlines ? the best I managed to do is reuse the stencil idea and then just duplicate the layer and apply Filter -> other -> maximise (2) and then make that selection and cut out of the internal part of the stencil so I get the outlines... the only problem is it looks bit rough , need to come up with the way to make lines more smooth (I did some blur effect which helps but it's not perfect ... yeah perfectionist what can I do =) ...

p.s. by the way Ljiljana where does that name come from ?

Hercules

Hi, Trippin

Sounds great to me.

That was exactly what I expect you would do. [righton]
For the outlines to make them darker use levels and adjustments layers (treshold for cleaning up).

Check this tread here:

http://www.photoshopgurus.info/forum...pic.php?t=4142

To give you more inputs please post your image and what you did so far.

PS.:My name is Yugoslavian.

Trippin

Heya Lily, oh your from that place that doesn't even exist any more , the ever shrinking country of many names ... tz tz tz what a coincidence I happen to be from the same place

yeah I'm workig on getting some nice outlines , thanx for the reply here you can check out one of the stencils (wow it's me) that I did for my little pet project ... http://test.zgm.com.au/filip/Graphik/IndustrialDay.jpg

oh almost forgot nice to meet you my name is Filip

cheers

Hercules

Hi , Filip nice to meet you too!

Your image looks good to me. [righton]

If you would like to smooth edges : make a selection of stencel image then >Select: Modify: Border.... enter the value of pixels for border ( would depend on the resolution of your image.) >Next Select: Feather... and type value in the Feather Selection window and apply Blur Gaussian Blur. This will blend and soften the effect.

Hope this can help.

Trippin

That's a useful tip thanx Lily [upset] [shocked] [doh] [innocent] ;\ [confused] [oops] [excited] %} |

coulnd't resist hehe ...
if you want to keep in touch msg me , I'll let u know when I make a bit more progress on the current project.

take care