solti

Hello,

I would like to take a photo of my face and make it appear in the same way as on the picture below, but I don't know Photoshop well enough to even know where to start. (None of the filters get close to what I want to achieve). Can I do this in PS?

Or do I need a plugin for it?

Thanks for any help on where to start!

BrazilianDude

If you're trying to get an effect that will look like the picture you put up, i'd use this:

go Image/Mode/Indexed Colors...

Pallete: Local (adaptive)
Colors: pick a number, I'd use 4
Forced: i'd pick "None", but you could experiment with Custom...
Dither: None

[the other options should be disabled]

Now just change it back to RGB or CYMK or Lab color and pick some colors =]

solti

superb! thank you very much!
(I thought I needed some technique that simulated pencil and ink rather than just limiting the number of colours... just goes to show how little I know...)

BrazilianDude

hmm you should give a better example, then =]

the instructions i gave you can be used to achieve results similar to the picture youve posted [righton]