You'd really want to start with source images of the person on a white background as opposed to the more problematic source images provided. You can use manual region selection to mask out the source image background to white.
Here's a few quick variations i tried in 5 minutes.
I didn't really spend any time pre-processing the source image other than a quick smooth ip op, and i think you'd want to put some special effort into preprocessing the source if you want a smoother more artificial feel to the overall shapes in the final image. I used the threshold ip op with an adaptive threshold option, followed by some additional ip op or vectorizer processing.
Ok I'll try my best shot. But I confess that an image like that first one is something to another kind of Image processing software.
But thanks anyway.
Synthetik > Leonardo SouzaSeptember 1, 2010 at 11:04am
I think the real trick is to pre-process your source enough to get an appropriate smooth stylized look, then do your adaptive thresholding. Working with the Smart Blur ip op is probably a good approach to doing the stylize smoothing. You can also use the vectorizer to vectorize the stylized color image before adaptive thresholding, again this is useful because you get a very different look than what you get if you threshold the original source image.
The original also has some line screen stylizing in the gray boundaries between white and black. I think you could emulate that if you wanted to have it.
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Here's a few quick variations i tried in 5 minutes.
I didn't really spend any time pre-processing the source image other than a quick smooth ip op, and i think you'd want to put some special effort into preprocessing the source if you want a smoother more artificial feel to the overall shapes in the final image. I used the threshold ip op with an adaptive threshold option, followed by some additional ip op or vectorizer processing.
But thanks anyway.
The original also has some line screen stylizing in the gray boundaries between white and black. I think you could emulate that if you wanted to have it.
The threshold ip op is a good place to start for this kind of effect.
Here's another noire video example posted awhile ago.
Here's another noire example.
Here's a different approach to a bw effect. I processed the image with smart blur effects prior to thresholding.
Another bw noire video example.
Hopefully these examples will give people some ideas on how to approach this kind of effect.