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infamouscody
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:17 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 156 Location: florida
might be a wierd question, but a friend asked me to print his face on a bunch of shirts, but i only wnna do black, how can i make a positive out of his face w/ out losing a lot of detail or whatever? ( i already know the "paint - monochrome" method, and it doesnt work well.. thanks..

cody
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skinny
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:45 pm Reply with quote
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check Tom Ledins site. tioem

He has an excellent walk through on just this kind of thing.
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toomuchjunkhere
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:13 am Reply with quote
Joined: 21 Nov 2001 Posts: 207 Location: wyoming
You could always just halftone it.
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el careca
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:23 am Reply with quote
Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 15 Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Play around with the brightness/contrast and the curves tools in photoshop. Check out this link, is this the look you are trying to get? http://www.stencilrevolution.com/tuto...ialsview.php?id=4
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Five Points Skateboards
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:00 pm Reply with quote
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yep, tom's the man. he'll have what you want

http://www.tomledin.com

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killymcgee
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:31 pm Reply with quote
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Cody,

Hope it isn't too late, here's another good tutorial:

http://gimp.org/tutorials/Sketch_Effect/
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infamouscody
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:43 am Reply with quote
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alright thanks guys, they all helped out a little, i figured it out and am printing today, ill post pics when its done.

cody
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Mik
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:40 am Reply with quote
Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 143
yeah, desaturate the image in photoshop, play with the levels so its pretty contrasty, then posterise it using 2 or 3 steps of colour. bring this into illustrator and pick out the lines and use a light and dark shade of whatever colour you want.

doesnt work with every photo so take lots of photos in a contasty light situation.

i did it for this as a present for my girlfriend: http://www.michael-latimer.com/illust...n/banjerella.html

Hope this helps

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emoxfag
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:26 pm Reply with quote
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Mik that board was great.
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Drunk Engine
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:12 pm Reply with quote
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infamouscody wrote:
might be a wierd question, but a friend asked me to print his face on a bunch of shirts, but i only wnna do black, how can i make a positive out of his face w/ out losing a lot of detail or whatever? ( i already know the "paint - monochrome" method, and it doesnt work well.. thanks..

cody


In Photoshop do all your sizing and brightness and contrast changes first the when you are all done with that, convert your image to Grayscale then convert to Bitmap and set the Output Resolution to match your thread count of your screen & for the Method use Diffusion Dither. So if your using a 300 Mesh count set the Resolution to 300, if not set correctly you will get a very nasty Moire effect when you develop your screen. (Example of Moire http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MoirePattern.html). This will give better gray scale tones than using the heavily used halftone method. To do an image compare against the original use the magnification tool and set it to 25% on your Bitmapped image (you will see little difference against the original except some grain), your print should look that good as long as you can develop your screen without over or under developing it. This method works great when trying to reproduce a spray paint effect or overspray effect to your image. The best kept secret..........
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