Fancy halftoning technique.

I've figured out how, in a few minutes and without using any special filters, you can turn this cheesy photo...



... into this two-colour, screenprinting friendly, yet still cheesy illustration.



Here's how you do it:

1. Open your photo in Photoshop, convert to grayscale.

2. Make something like this in Illustrator.



It will be your crosshatching, so it must cover the whole image. White background is a must.

3. Paste it to Photoshop, rasterize. Choose Hard Mix in the Layers menu.

It will start to look bad, without antialiasing.

4. Open the Filters - Blur - Gaussian blur and blur the lines just a little bit. That's when the magic happens.

Play with Gaussian blur and layer transparecy to achieve the desired effect.

You will have to zoom in on this, because it will remain looking bad until you merge layers.

You can also adjust levels on the photo to avoid dead black/white areas.

That's it.

If you want crosshatching:
duplicate both layers,
set new photo layer to Multiply,
flip/rotate/resize the pattern layer ,
fiddle with photo levels (lighten the photo to make the crosshatching appear only on darker areas)

Flatten the image to see the real look.

2.93 _ EricaTheRed - WINNER
2.36 _ greenttentacle

This is the saddest Guess The Score blog ever.

The use of light reflectors is what differentiates a professional photographer from an amateur.

So I thought what if you take the most awesome amateur photo ever and made it look like a professional studio shot?
Here's a photoshop collage:

A view of Earth, taken by professional astronaut but an amateur photographer:



And here's how a pro would do it, using a light reflector.



Opposing lights

Since it's a tie, both trindli and fikri will get the tees when the time comes, one way or another.

3.69 _ Brightwood
3.67 _ 5eth
3.60 _ Bio-bot 9000
3.59 _ JeszaL
3.58 _ celandinestern
3.55 _ soloyo
3.50 _ quister
3.45 _ hilaryleung
3.44 _ratkiss
3.43 _ DismantleDesign
3.42 _addu
3.41 _ Sigillum
3.40 _ laurastead
3.38 _ Stoma
3.37 _ chatnoirrouge
3.34 _ jodabaum
3.33 _ Notorius BMV
3.32 _ isawa
3.31 _ zempt
3.27 _ wullagaru
3.26 _ trindli
3.24 _ fikri
3.22 _ goliath72
3.21 _ jeffreyg
3.19 _ linkhero
3.16 _ frostedlemoncoward
π :-) _ rbthatcher
3.12 _ brentendo
3.09 _ undergroundunderdog
3.05 _ Haragos
3.01 _ podmop
2.84 _ Jake Friedman
2.82 _ jtc13
2.78 _ xtiffany
2.54 _ Efunk2332

It seems that most cute shirts here are too KAWAII-SAKURA-HIME-DESU for their tastes, so they are pushing this design:



First day of voting - 292 votes, 76 comments. Expect a mad score.

Here's a quick sketch of what I have in mind:

Personal Jesus

There are many videogame tees on Threadless (Mario especially) but I haven't seen anything Counter-Strike related.

Is it that no one tried or the game is for whatever reason not worthy to be on a tee?

So anyway I made this:



What do you think? Anything I should change/improve?

KFC

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