Paper Portraits: Janis Joplin and Jerry Garcia

Here are this week's portraits. I wanted to experiment a little with my color palette. As always, if you have any requests, feel free to let me know.

I'm finally getting ready to finish up my family portraits (Mommy, Daddy, and our two girls). I want to give them a sepia tone feel, but having difficulties finding the right shades of cardstock. If I can decide on the paper, they may be next week's portraits.

debz

wow. These are just incredible. Seriously.

debz

p.s. are these pictures of the finished product, or a screen shot? How do you get all the little pieces in the right spot? Unless you are transferring it like vinyl, I guess.

I'm just so impressed.

shirltop

So amazing! TFS!

rachellann_ID714

awesome and these are all amazing pieces of art.

Calgalcr8s

Big Wow, Greg!!!! =D> =D> =D>

Do you think that there is a difference between software regarding posterizing? If so, which software would you choose for this process?

Calgal

Edited--spelling

paperkutz

Hippychick, these are actually the finished product. I make sure to cut a border for each layer and I use it to align it to the previous layer. So, you don't discard the paper your not using until you match up all your pieces. Kind of like a jigsaw puzzle.

Calgal, It all depends on the effect and detail you want. I would experiment with it. After hearing from Bryan, I will suggest turning the image gray scale first. We came to the conclusion if you use the same gray scale colors for posterizing, you can predetermine what your thresholds should be when you create your individual layers in MTC. This will save tons of time.

Oh, quick tip. Check out Filterforge. It is a plugin for Adobe Photoshop. It is a plugin that has thousands of filters. Also, you can create your own custom filters if you buy the premium version. I was to cheap to buy it when I got the plugin. In hindsight, I should of because I wanted to create the perfect posterize filter for turning pictures into Paper Portraits. So, if anybody ever does this.... let me know.

Nancy_Cre8iveCutz

Wow these are amazing!

karen3912

Really amazing and I hate to say it but Janis Joplin brings back some memories. I could say I remember Mama playing her music but no it was me.

Thyme

Wow

beckylee

These are amazing. I would love to see a David Tennant one. How are they created?

paperkutz

David Tennant = Doctor Who. That could be fun. Let me see what I can do.

Maxine

OH MY Gosh! >..ive been waiting for this one checking the forum when I can for days.....and here it is! Papercutz ive been working on that same pic of janis since I asked you to do her... MY trys turned out NOTHING like that and are all in the trash bin. She is great! And who better to pair her with than Jerry. Thanks, I think my problem was using Tooo many colors. Im going to try her again today . You are a paper guru

Maxine

question ...with so many images of her out there what made you choose this one in particular? I think the reason I did was in this one she just looked so much happier and fresh.

paperkutz

I actually started designing two different ones, but only finished one of them. I chose this pic mainly because of her hair flowing back and she was holding the mic. The second picture was her wearing her round glasses. Whenever I think of Janis, I always picture her wearing them.

debz

Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgard) from True Blood. (If you are taking requests).

paperkutz

Oh my goodness. Team Eric!! lol

scrappinwithz

Amazing!!
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ruthgillis_ID2936

Absolutely fabulous... I may have try to do this with a pic of my son that I had previously wanted to do in vinyl... but might actually work better this route.. will have to see. I have posterized it - think I have 5 or 6 shades.. but am having issues with tracing the different shades... still playing

debz

paperkutz said:

Oh my goodness. Team Eric!! lol

Totally. Forget those sparkly vamps.

Calgalcr8s

ruthgillis -
That is exactly where the biggest glitch is for me. I can get the image to the posterization step and then I am stuck on how to separate the various shades into each own layer to go to the next step of tracing.

Greg, need your help in getting over this hump!! [-O<

Calgal

paperkutz

check out the thread on John Lennon & Steven Tyler. Bryan and I discussed posterizing in gray scale and changing threshold levels in pixel trace.