Halftone cartoons of people

[Gare]

What I did first was real simple: I used the Threshold effect on a photo, tuning it to show just enough black to make out the guy and the tree. What I did next was not so simple: I used Photoshop to generate Halftones of popular, but not a lot of halftoned colors. I brought the separations (halftones causally have four C,M, Y, and K plates) auto-traced them, and then carefully nudged a row here and there so after adding colors to each "plate" the resulting halftone was seamless.

Then I clipped my halftone vector samples to the appropriate areas in the drawing.



As you can see here, the halftone color samples aren't perfect. When I get a little time, I'll nail them as seamless tiles and offer them in the ClipArt forum.



-g

[Ron Duke]

I don't know how in the world you come up with this wonderful art!!! You're sooo creative! Blows me away.....
Anyway, great work on the halftone!

[pauland]

Jaundice and spots - he's in trouble!

Nice job.

[Gare]

Thanks, Paul, I guess.

:)

Gary

[iamtheblues]

Gare, I truly admire your patience, truly a labour of love. The result is very convincing. I can only echo Ron's comments.

Edit: Follow this link to see what I managed using a plugin.

Bob.

[Gare]

@Bob—

Thank you, and as promised, I should have all six halftones done as both vectors and high res JPEGS sometime today and will post them in the ClipArt section with a link here. As you might note, the tiles are not perfect in my screen cap and I need to massage them a little.

A figurative massage, not like those massages offered in the seedier parts of town.

-g