Few days back i saw my friend was having the famous Che Guevara image as his icon in Gtalk. It made me so curious that I wanted to make some thing similar of my image. The following is the result of that thirst. I took various help from various website for over 4 days to come up with this small how to (This is my first of many to come).
This is the Base image I am going to consider (sorry if its copy righted) Open it in Gimp (yes you need GIMP) u can also use Photoshop (you need to crack or pay money for that, so i will try to put it later)
This is the Base image I am going to consider (sorry if its copy righted) Open it in Gimp (yes you need GIMP) u can also use Photoshop (you need to crack or pay money for that, so i will try to put it later)
Click on Image -> Mode -> Grayscale
Choose Tools -> Color Tools -> Brightness-Contrast
This is the most important part. Adjusting the brightness and contrast will be the one determining the end result. The tip is make the edges of the image darker so that you will get a better outline for the image. For this you can keep the Contrast more and brightness less. Also try to pick a photo with white background, this might also help better.
Now click on Tools -> Selection Tools -> By Color Select
Click on the more darker color, tip is to make sure the doted lines that you see are on the edges of the image that you choose. So that you have the entire image structure in tact.
After that its a piece of cake, click on Layer -> New Later . . .
Make sure Background Color option is chosen (and the background color is white preferably)
You might end up with image like this.
Now click on Edit -> Fill with FG Color (best to have black as Foreground color)
To finish it click Select -> None to remove the dotted lines and to get the final image.
Tada... The final Image :-) hip hip hurray
If you think you did not get the desired output, then go back to the Brightness and Contrast stage and change them until you get the desired result. The following picture are example for of how you can generate the same image with different B&C variation.
Cool Is in it. Thank for patiently reading through this crap. Now get your hands dirty you self the whole world is left to conquer. Come back for more interesting tips and designs. Btw, I am just learning ;) so the people with advanced knowledge in Gimp/Photoshop might come up with much more beautiful results.
8 comments:
That's a good tutorial.
But if you're planning on cutting it by hand (as most people would) it would be very hard to do as the curves are still too detailed. They need to be rounded somehow.
Also, if you cut out the white area, you'll loose the eyes nose and mouth because they aren't connected to the main black area.
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH!
ahhhh ive been searching for ways to help me.
i use pastels and color them;
i needed a step by step directions for gimp.
YOU ARE A LIFESAVOR!
ahhh this was so helpful!
Hi, I think you can get to nearly the same result by opening your original image and just doing Tools > Color Tools > Threshold and adjust the threshold so that you retain good contrast balance.
uh someone said it was still too detailed all you need to do is go to filters, blur,blur
you dont need to mod the image to smooth a cut, just cut it smooth, thats where skill(wha?) comes in.
I found this post through my fourth google search regarding stencils with gimp, and this was by far the most user friendly and i love the results.
if you want single layer stencil you can do it with microsoft word, lol, i use gimp for my multi layered work.
021 massive....it's africa baby
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