pop art

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I would like to do a pop art painting for my flat that looks something like the ones found here.

Does anyone know how I can take a picture and make it look like this as I don't think my artistic skills are upto doing it unaided?

I have GIMP and I have tried posterizing images but they don't look very good. I have also searched for tutorials but none show me how to do pictures like the ones in the link.

[Iria]

Scanning it in Inkscape will give you that effect. Shift+Alt+B, scan in colour and have fun

[gopher]

funnily enough Digital Photo magazine has an article (and video tutorial) on how to do this in this months edition.

I haven't followed it as I haven't got a round tuit so I will probably be able to help you in about 6 weeks, someone else with far more knowledge than me will probably be along a bit quicker, or take a wonder down to your local Smiths and browse. (I do like the video tutorials, I've learnt quiet a bit from them)

Cheers

Paul

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Iria said:

Scanning it in Inkscape will give you that effect. Shift+Alt+B, scan in colour and have fun

Perfect, thankyou.

Just downloaded it and it works a treat just need to find the right pic now!

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gopher said:

funnily enough Digital Photo magazine has an article (and video tutorial) on how to do this in this months edition.

I haven't followed it as I haven't got a round tuit so I will probably be able to help you in about 6 weeks, someone else with far more knowledge than me will probably be along a bit quicker, or take a wonder down to your local Smiths and browse. (I do like the video tutorials, I've learnt quiet a bit from them)

Cheers

Paul

Thanks Paul,

I'l have a look at this as well.

[Iria]

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Iria said:

Scanning it in Inkscape will give you that effect. Shift+Alt+B, scan in colour and have fun

Perfect, thankyou.

Just downloaded it and it works a treat just need to find the right pic now!

No worries. If you find how to colour areas as in "bucket fill" for other programmes please tell me as I have been looking for that option like mad!

[viggen114]

here's one I have just done. My football mad nephew, as that was the theme



Photoshop > image > adjustments > gradient map

[Bodo]

Iria said:

Scanning it in Inkscape will give you that effect. Shift+Alt+B, scan in colour and have fun

[bacchus]

[url]www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/or/warhol-pop-art-silkscreen.html[/url]

hope it helps, i'm going to try tonight

[J111]

For the Photoshop users (sorry, limited Gimp experience) here's how to get very close to the effect in the linked pic.

From this:

To this:

First remove colour:

Then use the level tool to give a high contrast picture:

Then the cutout filter. I used 3 levels (to match the linked image), edge simplicity 4, edge fidelity 1:

The final step is to make a new overlay layer, then fill it with the colour of your choice:


Before flattening the image you can play with the colour and the opacity of the overlay layer. After use the levels tool to adjust the image.

[le gravy noire]

Ive just done something similar in photoshop using the pen tool. Here are the steps that I used:

www.flickr.com/photos/mattwatkinson/sets/72157594287610798/show/

using an automated approach like photoshop filters doesnt really give a good result IMO.

Matt

[Mrs Fish]

Another excellent example

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Finally got round to doing this, only a year or so later.

I started with this photo:



And finished with this painting:



Doing a few as graduation gifts for my friends then might try and sell some on ebay.

[Dogsey]

I like it, looks very professional.


(Would have looked even better if it had been Geoff Hurst though! )