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Posted by goonerjack on Nov-01-2004 23:42:

two colour picture effects?

first, does anyone know of any two-tone pictures of Tiesto? I think there used to one on www.tiestoworld.nl but there isnt anymore since they redesigned their site

if not, how can i create my own? essentially all i want is a picture that is composed of 2 colours (black & white?) or 2 shades of a colour... but you can still recognise the person in the picture from the outlines etc

for example, something kinda like this:

it'd be quite helpful to know how to do it just because i've wanted to do it with other things in the past, and probably will want to later as well.

any help appreciated

Posted by Psy-T on Nov-01-2004 23:52:

im not a photoshopper, but im pretty sure it can turn any picture into black & white in a few clicks

Posted by goodgreef on Nov-01-2004 23:55:

if youre using photoshop (the following were done with 7.0) you could do the following with any photograph:
Image > Adjustments > Desaturate
that'll give you black and white
then:
Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation > Colorize > move the Hue lever to adjust the colour you would like

here's pic examples of the steps above:

ORIGINAL:

Black and white:

Colorized:

Posted by goonerjack on Nov-02-2004 00:06:

hmm... kinda like that... but there are like two clear, distinct tones which make out blocks of dark areas and light areas - maybe something to do with the contrast?

hard to explain, but its almost like a line drawing with shadowing

thanks for your help so far

Posted by goodgreef on Nov-02-2004 00:08:

quote:
Originally posted by goonerjack
hmm... kinda like that... but there are like two clear, distinct tones which make out blocks of dark areas and light areas - maybe something to do with the contrast?

hard to explain, but its almost like a line drawing with shadowing

thanks for your help so far
*sigh*
go into photoshop and play around
play the same way with:
image > adjustments > contrast/brightness

or... filters > blur > gaussian blur or smart blur

all these will give you different types of effects after you make your photo two toned

Posted by goodgreef on Nov-02-2004 00:11:

btw, the tiesto photo above is just blurry from the beginning.... it was taken in a low light and probably without a flash

other than that, i dont think i understand what youre looking for but i tried