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HELP - Step by Step guide to convert photo - Grump - 04-08-2025
Hi everyone,
I have an original photo and need it converted in the style of Shepard Fairey but to a more colourised version.
Can anyone provide me with a simple step by step guide, PLEASE?
I would be most grateful.
Thank you.
RE: HELP - Step by Step guide to convert photo - rich2005 - 04-08-2025
(04-08-2025, 06:10 PM)Grump Wrote: Hi everyone,
I have an original photo and need it converted in the style of Shepard Fairey but to a more colourised version.
Can anyone provide me with a simple step by step guide, PLEASE?
I would be most grateful.
Thank you.
These can be vector or almost vector creations and starting from a photograph will very much depend on the photo.
However, without knowing the starting point I might do.
Make the photo more dynamic, this using the retinex filter Colors -> Tone Mapping
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Then reduce the colors Colours -> Posterise
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RE: HELP - Step by Step guide to convert photo - rich2005 - 04-09-2025
Another day, another type of photograph.
This one I might.
(1) Remove the background. Many ways of doing that, I used the Foreground Select tool. https://docs.gimp.org/3.0/en/gimp-tool-foreground-select.html
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(2) That gets copied and pasted as a new image. Edit -> Copy then Edit -> Paste-As -> New Image. A bit on the large size so it is scaled down Image -> Scale Image.
(3) I want to make that look Vector-ish, Simplified shapes, defined edges. Using a plugin gmic_gimp_qt. There is a Windows Gimp 3 plugin installer http://www.gmic.eu
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(4) Many have a sunburst type back ground. Added as a new layer under Layer -> New layer and again using the gmic plugin - the rays filter
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