Photo to illustration

[Betty]

Awhile back a few of you had icons that looked like a few tv commercials that had been running. I think it was for a finance or investment company of some sort that was doing the commercials.

They looked like illustrations that had been converted from a video...

Does anyone remember what I'm talking about? And if so, was there a filter in photoshop you used to get that effect or was it a lot of hand tweaking?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Perhaps you mean Waking Life (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/)? I believe I had an avatar of this before, and Brad as well.

http://images.allmoviephoto.com/2001_Waking_Life/tiana_hux_waking_life_001.jpg

http://www.reelingreviews.com/wakinglifepic.jpg

http://www.earlham.edu/~efs/life5.jpg

http://www.filmsnobs.com/www/pics/ethanandjulie.jpg

The commercials are by Charles Schwab and use the same process.

You can do a similar effect in photoshop but it won't look nearly as good as actually drawing on top of images.

[Betty]

That's the one. Thanks!

[Disneyphile]

And, if you really want to make it move, AfterEffects has a new filter that does it automatically too. :)

[Gemini Cricket]

I got motion sickness watching Waking Life in the theatre. I barfed in the restroom after about a half hour of it. I remember thinking it was a decent film otherwise...

[Betty]

I was actually hoping for a photoshop action or something that would do it all for me.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Well, you might get it to hold your hair back, but I doubt you'll be able to get it to barf for you.

[Gemini Cricket]

ElizaH posted this link awhile back to Vector Magic. You download a photo and it takes care of the rest... Does this help?
http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/

[Gemini Cricket]

:)

[Gemini Cricket]

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[Pirate Bill]

I've been playing around with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) for some art projects recently. It's free and works great. It has a function that can convert a bitmap into vectors.

[Frikitiki]

Alien Skin through their Snap Art product has a number of filters that you can apply in say photoshop. I have a set that I posted up on Flickr. part of the set I took a photo I had of Sleeping Beauty Castle and added each filter with the default settings. They have some really good stuff!

Picture sets: http://www.flickr.com/photos/frikitiki/sets/72157602521070239/
Here's the software: http://www.alienskin.com/snapart/index.aspx

[Gn2Dlnd]

Welcome, Frikitiki! You a friend of GC?

[Tref]

Welcome, Frikitiki! You a friend of GC?

More importantly, are you a foe of Gn2?

[Gn2Dlnd]

Oh yeah, I should know that. Just in case.