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Wow incredible, could you post the original for comparison?
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Good idea!
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I love this technique! I tried it last night and it rocks! Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for sharing this. Can't wait to try it out.
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A great thing about this technique is that there's so much distortion going on that you can start with a small or low quality image and get good results with many more pixles than the original. (Example below.)
I've put together a Photoshop 7 action with the steps, but the original tutorial is licensed under a no-derivative-works CC license and I'm waiting to hear back from the author about permission to post it here.
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okay, look at lance´s photo if only for the title...
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Wow! Great results, will have to have a go myself
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hmm... well, this is my first attempt...
I'll have to keep trying. Thanks.
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My Attempt at comic-booking Normy's jobbie
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These are awesome! I've found that resized images look best when you add the dot-screen layer at twice the resolution you want to end up at. That is, if you want a finished product at 400x300 pixels (say, for the web), then take your nearly-finished image down to 800x600, add the Color Halftone effect, then resize down to 400x300.
I'll pay $$$ for White Poo Action Comics.
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Here's one of my dogs in all her glory!!
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my attempt:
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oh fun! gonna try it out :D
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Man. .this technique is marvelous... it really is... I've tried it it's a lot of work but it worths it 100%!!! Great technique!
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"Comical ladies"...needs some tweaking i think. Certainly not a Lichtenstein just yet!
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I tried the tutorial with the first image that I opened. I know I probably should have picked a picture that had a smile... Maybe next time I have some time to really play with the options.
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Very cool technique! Here's mine:
Original Size
I added a little more trickery to make the "stroke" around the edge of the photo look like it was drawn in ink instead of a computer generated straight line.
By the way, is there an equivilant to Comic Life for the Windows platform? My powerbook was stolen, and I haven't replace it with another mac yet...
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D200guy [deleted] says:
It's Mac only according to their site. Their forum has requests for a windows port though. It'd make a great cross-platform photoshop plug-in, eh?
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Here's my shot
You can see the original here: land ho
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here's what I did whit some photoshop filters... I was looking for a 70' old effect.
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Here is my first swag at this techique. I also created a PS Action to help speed up the whole process.
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great technique, only got elements though, had to miss out a few steps..
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a comic book about a clothing market (or giveaway)?
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Oh, definitely, drlynch. I'm pretty sure this is mere seconds before the fists start flying. The only remaining question is what is her mutant power?
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drlynch, this is only seconds before he rips off the dress to reveal his superhero outfit
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LOL!!!
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I tried my hand at it too, but preferred a larger dot pattern to give it an overblown feel.
Thanks so much for the pointer, Lance!
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Hey, folks!
Glad you're all enjoying the Comic Art Effect. You've posted some really cool pics here. This is exactly what a guy hopes for when he posts a tutorial!
Anyway! Just dropped by to let you know that, with the help of Lance McCord (the guy who started this thread) I have produced and made available a Photoshop action to achieve a reasonable facsimile of the effect from my original tutorial.
Here's the story.
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That's awsome MacMerc.com! Thanks so much for giving us a lot of fun with the tutorial!
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just tried it out billiant very cool
already thinking of a poster
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Already made a poster :)
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fun fun fun... THANKS much.
i used the tutorial for better control.
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Make sure your images are of a high enough resolution. And here's a tip (so far, exclusively here) most times increasing the resolution in Image Size is detrimental and doesn't actually help you meet resolution requirements, in this case it will work since the image is heavily processed by the effect. It will actually help a bit to fudge the resolution up a bit.
Also experiment with lightening or darkening the image beforehand. It will reveal color patches and details that might have otherwise been covered in shadow or blown out as highlight.
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I'm feeling really stupid, 'cause I downloaded MacMerc.comComicArtEffect.atn.sit and downloaded StuffIt to decompress it.
Saved the atn file at Photoshop CS/Presets/Photoshop Actions and when I open PS CS I can't find that action!
Could you help me? I'd love to try this technic!
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You need to "Load" the action into your copy of Photoshop. I'm not familiar with your version, but check the Help files.
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THANK you, Daveodroid!
Just got a hold of it! Thanks!
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Woo!!
I ran it a little while ago and on my (crappy old) laptop it took 15-20 mins to process the 6MP image. Aaaaarrrgh! Stupid computer.
I need to save a rich guy's life or something.
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If you double-click on the .atn file it should not only launch Photoshop but install itself in the Actions palette
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many thanks... interesting results !
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Thanks, MacMerc.com, this is so much fun!
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Yes, thanks. This is entertaining.
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I'm just glad people finally found it--the tutorial is about a year old now ;)
Another effect you might find interesting is just looking at the Ink layers by themselves. Turn off all the color layers and see if you don't find a really cool line art drawing that was just waiting to be discovered...I think the shot posted by Spirit635 would be a prime candidate for this experiment.
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I LOVE this! Thanks so much for posting it!
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I don't know about this one MacMerc, I think I'll try some others...
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Mine didn't come out too much like a comic book, but it's interesting to look at..
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Really impressed with the results I've got from this.
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I'm quite happy also. I liked both of these shots compositionally but neither was sharp enough to use.
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Wow pinhole! I love the second one!
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this technique is so cool! I can't wait to try it, but I am supposed to be working (grin) The Techniques discussions never fail to amaze me at the way everyone shares their discoveries. Thanks!
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I started a pool for this a while back.. looks like at the time I was the only one who posted these kind of pics but hopefully you guys will pop yours in too!
Comic! (Book)
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p.s. my original attempt:
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thanks for sharing the script!
this is my first attempt, obviously needs to be tweaked some more ^^ :
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kind of a dark comic look... hardcore
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Does anyone have the action script .atn file that isn't zipped? Not really into downloading and installing another rarely used zip software just to get the actionscript. How big can it be that it needs to be zipped???
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Has anybody attempted this technique with the GIMP (rather than Photoshop)? Trying to work out how to do it in that program instead atm...
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(Stuffing/Zipping is not always about file size.)
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What is it about then? Bandwidth? I appreciate that you are offering the script for free and I don't want to sound ungrateful but as a web designer I would recommend not requiring additional software downloads if it's not absolutely necessary. Or, at a least use a more commonly used software title or in multiple zipped formats. Great tutorial though, fun stuff.
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This image has a manga feel to it, but in this case using a combination of two Paint Shop Pro plugins (Virtual Painter Watercolour and Drawing)as layers above the base image, then experimenting with varying blends and opacities.
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My first attempt
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Tried several pictures but most didn't turn out very well. Here's one that's not bad, though.
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This is really amazing. I was wondering how they did the graphics in "A Scanner Darkly"...
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a scanner darkly uses digital rotoscoping, similar to his other film, Waking Life.
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Mine:
Awesome technique, marvelous tutorial!!! :)
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Thanks for posting this, I've been having fun with it all day. Here's one of mine:
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Can anybody send to me the action file not "stuffed"? I do not want to install Stuffit Expander in my Pc.
I offer also web space to put it in a more compatible format, tar.gz or zip.
Thanks in advance.
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squeak_ [deleted] says:
Just sent a copy your way Junjan
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Thanks!!
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Junjan... any chance of putting your "non-stuffed" version of the action file on your web space? I'd rather not install Stuffit Expander on my PC either.
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Sorry, I totally forgot it..
Here you have it.
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Thanks!
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I moved... [deleted] says:
Thank you MacMerc for the action and thank you Junjan for the unstuffed version.
Here is my first effort -
and here is the original -
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Thanks! I really enjoyed this technique.
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This is great.
Mr. Incredible
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I've posted an Effect/Style of this technique for any Photoshop Elements 3 users out there. LINKAGE The post includes instructions on how to install it.
PS: and it's zip'd, so there!
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Just one more...
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Also now that you got the pictures in comics style, check out this program to layout your comic out, its very easy to use and simple. It's called ComicLife get it here: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/comiclife.html
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I still use this once in a while, when a picture just cries out to be inked and colored.
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Does anyone have instructions on making this work with Photoshop 7 for a PC? I unzipped the file and managed to load it into Photoshop by dragging the file onto the actions pallette.
I ran into errors trying to run it, and found that the script is trying to point to non-existent folders on my PC. I was able to change the path on the "save" command, but not on the "displace" command, so I just created the folder it was trying to work with. Still ended up with an error when it hit Displace, saying that the file was empty.
The original image was just turned into the a picture with a bunch of lines.
I tried to register at the macmerc forum, but I couldn't.
On the forum there someone mentioned a stand-alone PC app that does this. Anyone know what that is?
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I always wanted to be a cartoon... ;)
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And here's my attempt:
 -- from Matt Stratton - (?)
I think this would have worked better if there wasn't QUITE as much detail on the people behind them. What do you think?
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Hi you all. Need some help in here. Some years ago I've made these 2 pages using a Photoshop Action (applying it in each individual photo) but now I just cant remember what action was. Can someone identify it?
Part I
and Part II
Thank you very, very much...
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is it possible to create a retro comic effect by using gimp. I have tried with no success. Please help
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jps_photo: please change your image. We're getting a user/password popup from your web site when this thread loads, and it's very irritating. Nobody can see your picture anyway.
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lance - thanks for posting this! here's mine.
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maybe i missed something, but i downloaded the action from OP's link and it only provides BW and didn't give it the printing dots...
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are you running a recent version of photoshop? the action is slow, and runs a lot of layers so i was pounding the Enter key for a while to get it to finish.
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OK - followed the tutorial linked to from the first posting (of 2 years ago!). Just kind of showing it doesn't matter too much which version of PS or CS you're using - I did one on PS Elements 6. Couldn't follow a couple of steps (LAB color and Channels) but I think it's ok.
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