Che Guevara effect

[superandy_07]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Egg Bramhill]

A short tutorial on the method I used.

[Egg Bramhill]

Part 2.

[molucca]

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

Rich