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Santa's Little Hedcut

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ACTUAL iMAGE Junior Member Registered: September 2003 Location: Gurnee, IL Posts: 4 users gallery	PhotoShop 7'd! I started by desaturating the image and then optimizing the levels for greater grayscale contrast. Then I applied the filter Texture-->Grain-->Speckle with a 50% Intensity and a 65% contrast. This went a long way towards the desired result. I then inverted the background color to white, like the examples. I also darkened the shirt and lightened the suspenders a bit. And I used the same aspect ratio of the hedcut examples and cropped accordingly. Finally I tried saving as a GIF using a "Pattern" dither. It felt a bit like cheating to use a lossy "byproduct" as a filter, but it gave me what I wanted. Unfortunately the system doesn't allow for the submission of GIFs so I had to reopen the file and save it as a JPG. This took my 96k file and made it huge again . . . but C'est La Vie!
	· Date: 7/12/2004 · Views: 5667 · Filesize: 39.4kb, 199.8kb · Dimensions: 695 x 1014 ·
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	Keywords: Elves, hedcuts, lossy byproducts, Bob Hoskins
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Cvandever

Junior Member

Registered: May 2003
Location: Crossville, TN
Posts: 3

7/13/2004 10:25am

looks like pointalism.. I LOVE IT

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ACTUAL iMAGE

Junior Member

Registered: September 2003
Location: Gurnee, IL
Posts: 4

7/13/2004 1:26pm

Thanks, Cvandever!

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pjb

Member

Registered: August 2002
Location: Casselberry, Florida
Posts: 74

7/13/2004 8:46pm

Good detail and texture. Great job

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Janet Petty

Senior Member

Registered: January 2004
Location: Mid-South
Posts: 2,045

7/14/2004 8:54pm

Pretty much right on the mark in my book. Great job.

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Mark Slater
Junior Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 9

7/18/2004 9:28am

I like the effect. Neat way of getting a result using a file filter. I'm sure it wouldn't be "cheating" - especially since you got the result you wanted. You've given the image a lot of texture - can almost feel it. Well done!

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