Che Guevara effect

**superandy_07** · 30 April 2007, 11:01 AM

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

Cheers in advanced

**Albacore** · 30 April 2007, 01:02 PM

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/

**gnurf** · 30 April 2007, 01:04 PM

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

**Egg Bramhill** · 30 April 2007, 01:12 PM

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

**Egg Bramhill** · 30 April 2007, 02:11 PM

A short tutorial on the method I used.

**Egg Bramhill** · 30 April 2007, 02:23 PM

Part 2.

**molucca** · 30 April 2007, 03:18 PM

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

Rich

**Egg Bramhill** · 30 April 2007, 04:33 PM

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.

**Tallis** · 30 April 2007, 06:08 PM

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.

**gnurf** · 30 April 2007, 08:13 PM

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.