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It’s Philippe’s turn again. Today he starts with an image of his son David and turns it into a poster like the ones made by Shephard Fairey.
We had a show about this topic by Andrew A. Gill, who made a USSR propaganda style poster out of a portrait of President Roosevelt.
Philippe uses basically the same technique but has some aditional tricks in his sleeve, as separating zones with details that have to be preserved from others that should turn into flat areas and clear lines. And he shows how to get some fine lines into the image to get a half tone shade. The result really looks like a serigraph.
As always he starts with carefull watching and planning – a thing I too often forget.
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hi
thanks for all good tutorials…
the link to “The files used in this video” is broken…..
I got the video fine but get a 404 on: http://meetthegimp.org/wp-content/uploads/mtg092.zip (at 2009-03-13 05:51EDT)
ooops … just noticed squall77it said same thing 40 minutes earlier – too bad there is DEL-key for stupid posts!
A most enjoyable, fascinating and instructive episode, thank you. Once again, the importance of understanding the use of layers was exemplified so its back to the book for me.
nice… i would save it as a PNG
Ah man this has got to be my favorite meetthegimp episode ever!!
Outstanding work Philippe!! very instructional, very interesting to hear you analize examples and why they choose this or that color, thanks for sharing your wisdom!
Many thanks !
Have a look here: http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/1220/darwin1sm.gif
Found on Digg.
Same technical,…. the only difference is in the visage outline in dark
You heva something more on the maker ?
Sorry, no. I have no idea who the author is.
Update: http://www.mikero.com/blog/2009/02/20/more-darwin
He made them as a SVG with a vector drawing program, perhaps Inkscape if he is into free software.
Sometimes google is a useful tool.
Considering to buy a shirt….. 
*lol* Do you know this really cool search engine? Example: http://tinyurl.com/ak67ad
Yes, I use that in school a lot.
But you were a bit careless – we came away with a close shave:
http://chaosradio.ccc.de/archive/chaosradio_express_115.mp3
Just the intro….
Ooops, that’s luck I would say.
Anyway, I am going to risk everything and do it. Just no. No way to stop me.
PS: Nothing happened. Only my PC made a fresh cup of coffee for me. 30 minutes to midnight. That’s a disaster – I can’t drink coffee now. You’re right – shouldn’t have done it…
And here’s a TOC
Episode 092: DAVID! (for President?)
00:19 Welcome from Phillipe
01:19 Obama HOPE poster
03:38 The original photo of David
04:30 Observe
06:40 Copy the layer, add an alpha channel and desaturate
07:10 Blur the layer copy and blur
08:50 Duplicate the blurred layer, one for each colour
09:45 Use threshold to select areas to colour
11:40 Repeat for the other colours
18:00 Use the scissors tool to cut round David’s head
21:40 Fill in the shirt
25:00 Make all the layers visible and make the banner
25:50 Adding a frame
27:30 Adding texture using the Ripple filter
30:02 The End
Interesting to see the original Obama picture is now the subject of copyright arguments:
http://thomashawk.com/2009/02/the-associated-press-says-that-they-own-famous-and-iconic-shepherd-fairey-obama-image-photographer-manny-garcia-says-not-so-fast.html
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