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advanced cutout filter / vector portraits

today i checked out different approaches to get an adequate result in creating vector portraits.

after trying to re-create images by simply re-drawing it with the pen tool it turned out to be very time consuming, so i took a different path:

i applied the ps-intern cutout filter (8 levels) to the image, selected every generated color level, smoothed it, expanded it a bit, filled it with the picked color and so i finally put together the image with some sort of selfmade cutout filter, without disturbing jaggy edges.

...more or less a combination of the ps cutout filter, vector-portraits and some other filters.

i was ready to yawn..

then i found a site that provides afilter that modifies the image with a selfmade threshold filter.. which was not very helpful, because it was not very "selective". hit delete.

to make a long story short: with an advanced coutout-procedure this vector-portrait-thing would be a lot easier, unfortunately i was not able to google anything like that so far.

what i´d like to find is a little tutorial that leads me to a perfect cutout-filter, which does not reveal its ps-origins after 2 secs, but saves time as well.

ideas? links? willing to share past experience?

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Last edited by famuz, September 8th, 2007 02:08 PM (Edited 4 times)