turn a photo into a silohouette?

gillian0808

Hi All,
I would love to make some silhouettes of my family and was hoping someone can tell me if its possible to convert a suitable photo on the PC? And if its possible how to do it!!!

Many thanks to you.

Gillian

windra

I would suggest downloading the trial version of Adobe photoshop CS3, and then do a google search for a tutorial...there should be quite alot out there, ill have a look and see if i can find you a good one.

here is one... http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-effects/silhouettes-and-gradients.html

or a two tone siloette... https://www.photospin.com/free_tips.asp?archiveID=48

This may also be useful... http://www.graphic-design-employment.com/photoshop-clipping-paths.html

This is a video tutorial, a little complex and you would need to cut out the person shown in the tutorial above.
http://tutorialized.tv/index.php?option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&id=416

Ivrytwr3

yes, these type of pics are beautiful - in the 70's and 80's.











j/k, i remember these been displayed around my house as a child. Urgh!

spugzbunny

Oh that is such a fantastic idea! Do you mean the victorian style? I would love to do that too (quickly subscribes to post). I recently tried to do an Andy Warhol style pop art of my nephew as a baby on photoshop. Looked freaky deaky and not in a good way! Frightening.

The silhouette thing tho - surely it's just the outline you need? Could it not be done by hand with tracing paper and black card?

spugzbunny

Like this:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/kids/things_to_make/sihouette_pictures/index.html

spugzbunny

Or this:

http://scrapbooking-paper-crafts.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_to_make_victorian_silhouettes

(off I shuffle to find good pics to try this on!)

Andrew4

I apply the below step by step process to turn a photo into a silhouette:

• Open an image in Photoshop
• Fine-tune the option setting
• Create New Path clicking on the create new path icon from the path panel
• Start creating path around the photo selecting the pen tool
• Check the photo in quick mask view for fixing the possible error
• Save the image

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