Photochop question: how do I do this?

[sash1]

Say I have a picture of some stuff... say a basketball hoop and a tree. How do I make it so that its colorless, but its just outlined with lines. Since I have no good way to describe it, so here is an example of what I want to do:

original pic: Text
revised pic: Text

See how the couch and computer, etc. are all just lines? I want to do this, but I honestly have no idea. I have Photoshop 7. I'd say I'm pretty advanced with Photoshop, been using it for quite a long time now, but I honestly have no idea how to do this.

So does anyone know how to do this in photoshop?

Thanks,

`K

 

[sash1]

^

 

[igowerf]

I'd either trace it on another layer or select it and add a stroke to the selection. To help in tracing or selecting it with a marquee tool, you can try making the image grayscale and then upping the contrast and lowering the brightness. Just make sure you do everything on another layer so you can easily hide/show.

 

[paruhd0x]

Good advice igowerf, as far as I know you can't just do that with filters. So he is right...

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Damn, it's too bad we don't have a software, applications, and games or technical support forum!

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Why don't you consult the huge manual that came with your legit copy of Photoshop?

 

[zmatrix]

Or you can use paths to draw the outlines of the items. Add a new layer, select the color of your lines and stroke the paths by 1 pixel. You'll get cleaner lines this way and plus you can adjust the lines later if you've made a mistake.

 

[gsaldivar]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
Why don't you consult the huge manual that came with your legit copy of Photoshop?

STFU already.

 

[Anubis]

it looks like the feathed selected the dude and then selected the inverse, reduced color on the BG and used one of the sketch filters
could do it with find edges on a duplicated layer as well

 

[FunkierThanU]

Not exactly, but still cool:
Convert the layer that will be background to black & white. Use 'Find Edges' filter and then use the 'fade' slider to adjust so that only the edges are visual. Can probably tinker with that and the contrast adjustment to then make the lines darker...

Then paste the color object in.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: gsaldivar

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
Why don't you consult the huge manual that came with your legit copy of Photoshop?

STFU already.

Aww come on... I was just doing my duty to OT!

 

[Wahsapa]

first take out your dude from the picture, make him look however you want. then your either gonna have to trace the couch and what not with the background or go to illustraitor with the picture and create some vector artwork to lay under the pic of the guy.

the background of what your trying to do(the computer and couch and what not) look vector based. i dont think it was made in photoshop. rather, tey made the background in illustraitor(i dont think the whole picture was done is ps) to look similar to the background of the guy in it, and then superimposed his image. for instance, if the artist were to mess up the line on the couch, he would have to erase it and do another one, which no artist would want to do, in illustraitor he could on-the-fly adjust a line on the couch to his liking, because lines arnt pixels its a lot easier and time saving for a certain image.

im hesitant to think its a filter because the reflection on the monitor would have came up as a line for the very architecture type of look of the background, it could be easily corrected but who wants to spend that much time on it? it could prolly be done in illustraitor faster.

you've been using ps for how long? professionally or just for fun? and the photoshop manual doesnt have that much useful information, well atleast not about the ends to the means i think.