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Here's an example of a pure B&W high-contrast image, like I mentioned in the previous post. This isn't pure lineart, since there's way too many black areas, but you get the general idea, and there's plenty of room for backgrounds and objects made of stark B&W like this.
It's a bit rougher than I'd like, but I did this in about an hour, just to get an idea across. If I were doing it for the book/CD, I'd spend a bit more time on it to get the lines smoother.
Steps:
1. get photo of car
2. cut out backgorund
3. spend time playing with brightness and contrast, dodging and burning to get the highlights light and the shadows dark.
4. use Filter-> Smart BLur with High and Edges Only picked, played with other settings until it looked good, click OK, invert picture.
5. Spend a lot of time with black pencil and while pencil, darkening and lightening to get the big solid areas of black and white.
6. Convert to bitmap via Image -> Mode, to get rid of any grey pixels. (Convert back to greyscale to get to save as jpg to post :)
If you don't have Photoshop, but have PSP or another program, you can do a lot of the steps detailed above, and then send it to another perosn for the final processing. Or they can send it to you after the fitler steps and you can fill in blacks and whites. We don't have to have these done by any one person.
ETA: If you don't ahve Photoshop, you can use Inkscape, a free vector-based program that will allow you to do lineart in vector format by tracing over an image. Did I mention it was free? (And, er, yeah - all tracing is helped if you have a graphics tablet instead of a mouse ... you *can* do it with a mouse, but it takes longer to get right, and you tend to get more hand cramps :D)
It's a bit rougher than I'd like, but I did this in about an hour, just to get an idea across. If I were doing it for the book/CD, I'd spend a bit more time on it to get the lines smoother.
Steps:
1. get photo of car
2. cut out backgorund
3. spend time playing with brightness and contrast, dodging and burning to get the highlights light and the shadows dark.
4. use Filter-> Smart BLur with High and Edges Only picked, played with other settings until it looked good, click OK, invert picture.
5. Spend a lot of time with black pencil and while pencil, darkening and lightening to get the big solid areas of black and white.
6. Convert to bitmap via Image -> Mode, to get rid of any grey pixels. (Convert back to greyscale to get to save as jpg to post :)
If you don't have Photoshop, but have PSP or another program, you can do a lot of the steps detailed above, and then send it to another perosn for the final processing. Or they can send it to you after the fitler steps and you can fill in blacks and whites. We don't have to have these done by any one person.
ETA: If you don't ahve Photoshop, you can use Inkscape, a free vector-based program that will allow you to do lineart in vector format by tracing over an image. Did I mention it was free? (And, er, yeah - all tracing is helped if you have a graphics tablet instead of a mouse ... you *can* do it with a mouse, but it takes longer to get right, and you tend to get more hand cramps :D)
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