troubles making an image look like a comic

[Sierraccr]

I've used/made patterns before, but I really like that one. Nice work!

[Hoogle]

I think that this is the 1 I used

[ibclare]

god, that's funny Fenix. This is the kind of challenge we find fun! Here are my png versions.


Play around with filters and blend modes. Duplicate layers with a filter and add another. Play with the sliders like note paper with zero relief and such. Then try different of the blend modes and maybe change opacities. Some of the blend modes will invert color, make a picture mostly B&W but keep some colors or add really startling effects, especially once you have several layers interacting with each other. If you have cs5, make the picture a smart object then you can edit or delete the "smart" filters that you apply. And you won't forget which you used.

[Ronano]

I think Hoogleman's is best, but I gave it a shot.

[Paul]

Comic effect How to Create a Comic-Book Style Image of Yourself

[ibclare]

I love art history and 20th century artists, so I like Hoogle's too. I love Vafann's too for the colors and the way they meld into each other. Here is a reference to the dot pattern. 60s artist Roy Lichtenstein NY contemporary of Warhol, et al)

[Him_is_Ben]

Here´s my first try, is this going in the right direction of what you mean?

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It is! She told me that she really liked the way this made her hair look, there was one other image that I believe might have been done by fenix (could be mistaken, it no longer appears in the thread) that she also liked, but those were the only 2 she had said were along the lines of what she was looking for.

Only thing I can think to do with this is cut & paste like I'd been doing, I imagine that I could make it work so I'll give it a go... But I have no idea how you got that sort of end result & effect.

Really though, I appreciate everybody's efforts & am sincerely thankful to have found so much help on here. I apologize for having taken so long to respond given the quickness of your posts & efforts. Nevertheless, I'll post what I manage to make happen as that happens, in the mean time, thanks again everyone, much appreciated!

[Vafann]

It is! She told me that she really liked the way this made her hair look, there was one other image that I believe might have been done by fenix (could be mistaken, it no longer appears in the thread) that she also liked, but those were the only 2 she had said were along the lines of what she was looking for.

Only thing I can think to do with this is cut & paste like I'd been doing, I imagine that I could make it work so I'll give it a go... But I have no idea how you got that sort of end result & effect.

Really though, I appreciate everybody's efforts & am sincerely thankful to have found so much help on here. I apologize for having taken so long to respond given the quickness of your posts & efforts. Nevertheless, I'll post what I manage to make happen as that happens, in the mean time, thanks again everyone, much appreciated!

I could give you the PSD so you could follow what I did, but I have been looking and now I can´t find it. I think I might have moved it to an external hardrive when I was trying to clean up this messy one, or thrown it away since I didn´t think I would be needing it. I´ll post it if I can find it, that might help.

[SeniorS]

By the way here nice tutorial about comic look and making pattern Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect. Better late than never