qskapunk Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 what the heck is this process called? just an example of an image found on the interwebs i want to start doing some simple screen printing, but i dont know what the process of taking a full color image into the above image is called. i know there are other colors in there but just imagine it was only black and white i swear some times its really frustrating trying to search in google Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goraiders Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 you turn the contrast all the way up, so then only blacks and whites are left but i don't know what its called Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlejonnyhormone Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 I usually call it "adjusting the contrast." And the brightness too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qskapunk Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 stencil art...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qskapunk Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 I usually call it "adjusting the contrast." And the brightness too? theres a little more to it than that http://aokayofficial.com/blog/?p=1754 http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-stencila.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keymanmk Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 You can achieve this type of effect utilizing live trace in Illustrator as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
controlthebleeding Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 You can achieve this type of effect utilizing live trace in Illustrator as well. i fucking love live trace.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keymanmk Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 You can achieve this type of effect utilizing live trace in Illustrator as well. i fucking love live trace.... It's sooooo useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
partysmasher Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 if you're gonna screenprint just one colour a good thing to do is go to image and grayscale it, then you can play around with the contrast, once you've gotten it just right, hit image then bitmap and boom, you have a solid, b/w, stencil style design. then you can import it into illustrator/indesign and fuck around with the colour of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonesomexloveus Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 vectoring! i've only made screens for printing using corel paint though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hvmyselfabear Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Convert the image to greyscale, fuck around with the brightness/contrast for a while, then convert it to a bitmap to get rid of any risidual gray areas that are left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cactusbot Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 People still use Corel Paint? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
partysmasher Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Convert the image to greyscale, fuck around with the brightness/contrast for a while, then convert it to a bitmap to get rid of any risidual gray areas that are left. yup, like i said. though this only works really if you've got an image that's big enough to start with, if it's tiny then it'll be tiny when you go to print. In which case, you wanna make a vector image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justindinealone Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 "threshold" or you can use the stamp filter sometimes for a similar effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qskapunk Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 thanks for the tips folks, im still a photoshop n00b so ill have to mess around with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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