Real looking lineart from a photo

[saur]

Hello everybody:

I am new to the forum and I want to know how to create "real" looking lineart from a photo. What filter(s) or steps I need to do from a photo to finish like a hand-draw drawing?

Thank you

[saur]

Hello everybody:

I am new to the forum and I want to know how to create "real" looking lineart from a photo. What filter(s) or steps I need to do from a photo to finish like a hand-draw drawing?

Thank you

[lasm]

Hi,

Not sure if it is easy to do this in PS, but
it is easy in Gimp, which is a PS clone that
is free of charge. Check out my line-art images
for some example of what can be done in gimp
at http://gug.sunsite.dk/gallery.php?artist=41&page=5

Will try to post a larger version of image
in the General Gallery later.

re,
lasm

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[saur]

Gimp is a program for LINUX. I have WINDOWS ME. Can it work in my system?

[lasm]

Check out the mailing lists I mentioned in the
Gallery thread.. particularly the list archives
at gug.sunsite.dk Most people run on win 9X/NT
without much problem..

Here's a larger version of the lineart-from-photo
effect which was posted to http://gug.sunsite.dk/gallery.php?artist=41

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[saur]

From where can I download the program?

[lasm]

in short... here ...
http://www.gimp.org/win32/

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[Beth]

Iasm, Gimp looks like it does alot of cool effects. Do you have any experience with how it handles photo adjustments. You know....the boring curve manipulations to colour correct photos.

I will have to try this out when I dual boot (or multiboot) my windows machine. Linux looks interesting.

Saur, you can achieve the same look in photoshop too. Some of the filters that come with it are pretty good, but there are also a few 3rd party filters too. One of my favorites is from Andromeda
http://andromeda.com/

It is now called screens filters. There is another one called cutline which looks pretty good too.

[lasm]

Hi Beth,

Yes, the boring curves are there to do the boring photo manipulations and stuff like that ;-)

You don't have to multi-boot your machine just to try Gimp, because you can install the win32 port straight away, but still, multi-boot is fun [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

The effect looks nice.. Here's how to do it
in Gimp without buying expensive filters ..

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[d-sine]

hmm...

you used to be able to get gimp for win32 machines, i used it for a while, then went back to my trusty photoshop :P

you could try looking around for it on google.com i guess, especially as i can't remember where i downloaded it from now..

hope it helps.