how do you make pictures like this?

I ain't very artistic and I was wondering how you go about about making pictures of people like this: http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/w...838383.jpg

Thanks for any help.

'posterize' or 'cutout' in photoshop and adjust amount of colour/tone levels and edge fidelity/complexity to get the desired result... Most image editing software should offer this kind of function.. vectorising an image is another way of getting this kind of effect

Photoshop filters can do that for you, i forgot the exact ones but posterize, cut-out and palatte knife can do the trick, look in the artistic section of the filters.

Or what i call the "pro" way, live trace in the image (selecting the max number of colours) in illustrator and adjust as you please.

Damn you rondema, too quick for me!! lol

Our answers are virtually identical, so we must be pretty much on the money.

247... live trace in illustrator is the process of creating a vector image from a raster(jpeg etc) image, fyi

For excellent online tools (free) head over to http://www.aviary.com

Thanks for this. I don't suppose there is a way I can do it in 'Paint'? I ain't got photoshop and never used it before, is it easy to learn?

For excellent online tools (free) head over to http://www.aviary.com

Use Raven

http://aviary.com/blog/posts/convert-bit...ith-aviary

Paint won't cut it

Thanks for that aviary link, had a quick look and it's interesting.

Thanks for this. I don't suppose there is a way I can do it in 'Paint'? I ain't got photoshop and never used it before, is it easy to learn?

paint is mad limited, youre better off learning photoshop. there's a learning curve in photoshop but if theres something you want to know how to do in it google always has an answer.

these parody videos I actually picked up some info lol :

i use gimp, its free and opensource

i use gimp, its free and opensource

I just got this a while back too and it's pretty cool......

i use gimp, its free and opensource

I just got this a while back too and it's pretty cool......

Both Gimp and Aviary are great.

Aviary went free just last week btw http://aviary.com/blog/posts/free-online-editing

[denaris]

Checking out Aviary now

247 - if you want a freebie for the PC, try Paint.NET. Million times better than Paint, cut down features of Photoshop. If you're on the Mac, try Seashore.