How would one go about making high contrast images like the maximum baracknroll shirt? Or pretty much anything else Var does. Any help would be appreciated.

Start at the menu bar and:

Image > adjust > threshold

But rarely is an image ever perfect enough in contrast that this step alone works. When I do this it often takes making one image into many layers and adjusting the threshold on each until it looks like I want it to.

(I used to teach Photoshop, someone hire me please.)

Thanks a lot.

I'll hire you - i'm badly in need of some photoshop lessons. I keep fucking up images i like by photoshoping them into oblivion...

so the best to get a 2 (or more color) contrast like the barack shirt is to use illustrator.. I'm really bad in illustrator but that effect is much easier to to there and afterwards I use again photoshop to finalize the picture...

the option is called in german "interaktiv abpausen" which should translate to interactive trace ...

There are many ways of doing this in photoshop.

Some of them involve blur filters, threshold, posterization, stamp and the photocopy filter. You can also make the image grayscale, then use the threshold to separate the white from the grays/blacks and then select all the white and delete. Then flip back to CMYK (or RGB if for web) Then add back in color to the background. It all involves layers and multiple steps.

You can also do this for a painting effect. Deduce everything down to lines and then color it back in.

Jana and I could tag-team a photoshop class. I'd be her TA.

Using those effects above, you can make things like you described, or stuff like this:

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... ID=6392748

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... D=10291010

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... &i=4012930

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... D=17031025

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... i=17031090

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... D=17034782

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... ID=6392817

All that stuff is from when I was first learning photoshop in school, so excuse the imperfections.

(if you can't see this, just friend me, if we're not already friends)

Live trace, is what its called here. We were banned from using it in design school, because it was considered cheating.

I cheated here: http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... D=15047249

For you non-locals, that's the honeymoon shack in Cedar Key.

where do I go for the After Effects tutorial class?

http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=569

got those downloaded the other day
thank you torrents

hooray for stealing knowledge. aRRRRRrrrrrrrrgh.

In my opinion, it is a million times easier to do it in Photoshop because I'm too much of a perfectionist to do it in Illustrator. I would actually sit there for hours and draw the whole thing out. Not that it wouldn't still take be hours in PS. But they'd be more enjoyable.

And as Janeen mentioned, there are several ways to do this in PS. That's one of the things I love most about PS. There are many ways to get to the same end result for almost anything you want to do. Just find the one that works best for you.

I'd love to! Now if only we could figure out how to do this being so far apart and you always on the road.

Really, best thing is to get your shots lit well enough that you have to do minimum optimizing when you get them into PS.

AND be sure your monitor is color corrected!!! (More important than most people realize.)

that's the most annoying thing in video editing for me, I don't have a color correction monitor so I to do all my editing at home then go to the school edit labs to use their monitors to color correct everything.
proper monitors for color correction are expensive as fuck to, it's like $2,000 just for a 12in one

mmh i think its way faster with a better result doing it in illustrator.. most times I need it I need two colors beside the background anyway and for that you need it illustrator anyway to have a good result... but beside that one option I only use ps as well...