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I am doing a self poitrat for school..and my teacher distoted it in to 4 differtent shades ..then we had 2 put a grid on it so we could tranfer easyier to another paper? but my question is how did she do that, because i want to do one at home but of my girlfriend to give to her for her birthday?? so any help would be great?? i have ben trying to do this for like hours now ...SO THANK YOU

2007-03-04 09:35:05 · 4 answers · asked by jimmy m 2 in Arts & Humanities Visual Arts Photography

and after she distorted it it look like an out line

2007-03-04 09:37:16 · update #1

IT MAY BE CONTOURING? thanks for help

2007-03-04 09:39:13 · update #2

4 answers

Like RustSKIPper says, it's not hard if you have some software. I don't know what you might have, but I can tell you how to do it in Photoshop Elements and maybe other programs will offer similar options.

Follow this path in the menu system:

Image > Mode > Grayscale

This turns is a simple black and white. Next:

Filter > Adjustments > Posterize

Set the levels to "4" for three shades of gray and one shade of white.

You're done.

2007-03-04 15:23:56 · answer #1 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 0 0

I'm not sure if your question is about shading or about making a grid.
For shading, you should start out with the darker color first so you won't have trouble adjusting tones; you therefore can only go lighter. The darkest tones on a portrait is usually about 10% of the whole thing, usually the eyes, hair, and shadows. Then gradually go down in shades to light black, grey etc.
To make a grid do this: divide your paper into 4 equal sections and then divide these into smaller equal sections, say 1 inch squares. On a separate paper of equal or the same dimensions (meaning: if the original is 6", the copy should be divisible by 6; therefore a 6" original will make a copy of 12 or 18 inches or 2x as much or 3x as much, etc.). Make a grid with the exact same number of boxes; doesn't matter if the paper is big or small.
From there, you can copy each box exactly from the original to the copy and you will have a perfect copy.
You can also lay a gridded tracing paper over your original (this is nice to do with photos), trace the outline only and then proceed the same way with your copy.

2007-03-05 03:13:35 · answer #2 · answered by Amerigo 3 · 0 0

Hey Jimmy,

Look at my Avatar. If that is what you mean, it was at one time a color photograph in digital format. Using an old version of Adobe Photoshop, I use the pull down on "Image", selected "Mode", and checked Grayscale. That converted the picture to black and white with shades of grey. Next I used curves, or you can use the balance of light.

Like Levels, Curves lets you adjust the tonal range of an image. However, instead of making the adjustments using just three variables (highlights, shadows, and midtones), you can adjust any point along the 0–255 scale while keeping up to 15 other values constant.
You can also use the Arbitrary Map option in the Curves dialog box to draw a tonal curve by dragging. This feature lets you create a variety of interesting tonal and color effects.

2007-03-04 10:46:38 · answer #3 · answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7 · 0 0

We really can't help you much with this unless we know what kind of software you have. Do you have Photoshop?.......

2007-03-04 16:15:39 · answer #4 · answered by Laura 6 · 0 0

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