Che Guevara effect

Hi everyone first time poster here :)

Is there anyway to manipulate an image so it has a kinda Che Guevara effect to it?

http://www.viaggiareliberi.it/CUBA/Che_Guevara.jpg

Been trying for a while with no luck :confused:

Cheers in advanced

Fairly easy one if you follow any of these two tutorials for PS but it is fairly easy to modify for Xtremme if you don't have access to PS:
http://www.netmag.co.uk/zine/design-...ter-art-effect
http://www.designtutorials.info/poster-design/

Yes, there is!
The technique for this quickie requires Xtreme Pro and two bitmaps: The photo of a person and a rock texture found in the fill gallery.

Open the photo in XPE and desaturate by setting saturation to -100. Then adjust the contrast with levels.

Back to xtreme, trace the bitmap with the grayscale settings color tolerance 100, accuracy 100 and smoothing around 30.

Back in xtreme, ungroup the trace, remove the background rectangle, select all and join shapes, and apply a dark color but not black.

the scratches is a rectangle with the rock texture bitmap. When you make the bitmap black and white by applying a white outline and black fill (will invert the bitmap so that the darks scratches will become light) you can adjust the contrast with the fill profile.

Take a look at the attached xar-file as there is a lot to fiddle with

Great minds think alike! Che's a pussy cat.

A short tutorial on the method I used.

Part 2.

Made a two color bitmap copy and used the copy to make itself transparent. The orange is an object behind the image.

Rich

Once you've got the 2 colours it's a simple step to select all of one colour, usimg the Name Gallery, cutting it and Ctrl+Shift+Pasting onto a new layer. Do the same with the other colour, but remove the background rectangle shape.
Now you can select all of one colour, Arrange / Add Shapes. Repeat for the other colour.

Select All / Arrange Subtract shapes. You now end up with a great single coloured vector shape.

See, this is why I love this place. Where else can you get people jumping on the bandwagon with detailed solutions like this. You guys are great. This wasnt even my question, and I dont even know if I;ll use this, but I sure learned a lot by reading. A toast to the forum and all the dedicated people.

Sorry Egg, I don't really follow all your steps with named colors etc. After the trace, just Ctrl-click on the background rectangle of the trace and press delete to remove it. Then Join shapes with Ctrl-J and then you are free to apply any color including named ones. All the exporting sound a bit too much to do for a lazy soul as myself.

Hi Mr. Bramhill,

Please forgive my dense moment.

I can copy your steps with the cat, but somewhere in the transition from cat to Elvis I lose the flow.
Could you possibly continue the method using just the cat image?

Something in the following is not apparent to me?
"Do the same with the other colour, but remove the background rectangle shape.
Now you can select all of one colour, Arrange / Add Shapes. Repeat for the other colour.

Select All / Arrange Subtract shapes. You now end up with a great single coloured vector shape."

Why do I want to select all of one color and add shapes (what shapes?) if I've already selected them? Wouldn't I be adding the other color? If so where did it come from? And if I deleted the rectangle was something supposed to be left behind? Is that what's being added?

Too many questions.

Thank-you very much.

mg

Hi Paul,

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After the trace, just Ctrl-click on the background rectangle of the trace and press delete to remove it.

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If you just ungroup and delete the rear rectangle, you are assuming that this is the only shape of that colour. in the attachment below I have selected the rear rectangle and coloured it green. You can see that there are other black shapes remaining (53 here). So if you do a select all Arrange / Add shapes, you're losing these shapes.

MGARCHITECT I'll try to answer your questions when I get a moment.

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Originally Posted by gnurf

Sorry Egg, I don't really follow all your steps with named colors etc. After the trace, just Ctrl-click on the background rectangle of the trace and press delete to remove it. Then Join shapes with Ctrl-J and then you are free to apply any color including named ones. All the exporting sound a bit too much to do for a lazy soul as myself.

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For the lazy soul lurking in us all ;)
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Another really easy method using IrfanView

1) Open image
2) Resize if necessary. Ctrl+R
3) Crop if necessary [draw rectangle, adjust lines with mouse Ctrl+Y to accept)
3) Enhance colours. Shift+G
values I used:
contrast: full positive
gamma correction: full positive
saturation: full negative (-255)
brightness: 47-50
press OK
4) Image --> Decrease colour depth --> 2 colours (no dithering)
5) Image --> Effects --> blur

The last step smoothes the jaggies, but if you want a coloured bg, you will be better off omitting the last step until you have the bg in place.

Egg, I wrote "join shapes" not "add shapes", which should work in the same manner as you have described - only quicker and easier :)

This was done with live FX
free effects by XERO
1-Abstractor
2-Porcelain

Gr,Hans

Paul,

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Egg, I wrote "join shapes" not "add shapes", which should work in the same manner as you have described - only quicker and easier

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Sorry, I missed this post and your Join Shapes advice. It works great. Cheers.

Thanks guys,

My elder son has been on my back to do the same for a while, now my younger son wants the Elvis look, back to the drawing board

Looks great. And if you place the text and image behind the scratches the black areas will also look worn and torn.

I read this thread a while ago and just tried your trick, Hans. Wow. I had that plug in installed, but never got around... Thanks!

First of all, the photo should have a highlights and strong shadows. A washed out photo won't work.

In this photo of my long suffering wife holding our long suffering cat, I reduced the Color/Saturation setting in Xara Picture Editor to -100 (you have to key this in the text entry box).

Then in the Levels dialog (Xara Picture Editor), I moved the three triangles under the image very close together to reduce the number of colors.

Then I played around with the Brightness and Contrast settings in order to keep some of the hair and the lace curtain.

The color was a solid red orange rectangle added on top of the modified photo with Flat, 0%, Stained Glass transparency applied.

Welcome to the Xtreme Conference, by the way. :)

Gary

http://www.mehdiplugins.com/english/finethreshold.htm

Here is another method:
When you install Xreme or Pro, some Mehdi plugins are installed automatically. The Fine Threshold is not, but I believe is free so download and try it.

1. Apply it in Xara to a copy of your photo
2. Do an Arrange > Create Bitmap to create a mask which can then
3. be applied to your original photo via the BitMap Gallery (Apply Transparency).

Using only transparencies.

ps - for searching purposes (for me in the future, when I forget), this comes from my 'posterize' effect in this thread.

Playing with the last one, I never thought it was possible to fine-outline something like the castle is in the following. Wow. Achieved by only modifying transparency colors on the various 'filters' on the last post: