vector of me

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Originally Posted by Pleymo

(that tool is sick, it's magical)

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love ya

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Originally Posted by Pleymo

alrright thanks :D i'm searching for a good =
but tavro, can you explain your way of using the gradient map a little bit more or do you have a screenshot of a photo or the gradient? I dont really understand it. thanks

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Sure thing. Take this picture of some random dude right here:
http://photo.net/shared/portrait-bits.tcl?user_id=70945

Throw in a gradient map over the whole thing, and try to get the sliders of whatever colors as close as you can get them, like so:
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3453/gmap.jpg

You'll get something like this:
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/8354/gmap2.jpg

To fine tune everything, I adjusted the Levels of the origional picture. Here, I moved the black and white sliders towards the middle. You do what you gotta do to get the most bang for your buck:
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/225/gmap3.jpg

This is the outcome of that:
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4458/gmap4.jpg

From there, you just use the pen tool and make some shapes out of the large areas of color. For areas like the shirt, where there are a ton of smaller shapes, you can adjust the levels again to try and get more uniformity out of it, or you can just make some generalizations about where the shapes should go. Here's my outcome from a similar technique:

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._1637243_n.jpg

ah ok thanks a lot mate :) that should help me.


the images really helped me, thanks.