Posterization?

Which bits are you wanting white, and which bits black?

I can only guess that its going to be a case of making a selection around the edges of the bits to go white - filling them, and then filling the rest in black...
 
Probably his silhouette... maybe a few other bits to put his position 'in context'. I tried a lasso but it looked quite poor.
 
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So something like this - (Excuse my taking your screen grab and editing it)

y17HBy1l.jpg


4 selections, climber, arm shadow, outer rock face, inner rock face.....
pasted into individual layers
levels adjsument on each to suit
opacity adjsutments to suit
white layer underneath stack
 
I've got access to PS and Elements (I'm not too good with using it for graphic stuff rather than re-touching though).

overbez said:
So something like this - (Excuse my taking your screen grab and editing it)

y17HBy1l.jpg


4 selections, climber, arm shadow, outer rock face, inner rock face.....
pasted into individual layers
levels adjsument on each to suit
opacity adjsutments to suit
white layer underneath stack
Click to expand...

Definitely excused! Thanks that looks great. did it take much effort to do the selections? Maybe using the magic wand tool was my error?
 
Morning Paul,

Selections were the easy part TBH, harder was deciding what selections neded to be made, and then what to do with their shades!

I started with the climber, my first selection tool of choice is generally the magnetic lassoo (right click lassoo tools to find more), sometimes it follows along the line you trace with the mouse, at tricky points you may have to do a few manual clicks, (if it selects something wrong, backspace deletes one point).
Zoomed in always gives better results, you can hold space bar to drag the image around so you can move onto the next area. takes a bit of practice though.

Once you completed the selection you get the "marching ants", copy and paste puts selection into new layer, then you can play with the levels adjustments to darken , lighten, make completely black or white. (the top row of three small triangles under the histogram).

You can then drag the order of the layers, and change their opacity to suit.

Attached the .psd file I used which might help
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2cpmrzywt54vxeq/climber.psd

I also just added another climber layer, on top of the silhouette with a tiny bit of highlight detail in it, rather than pure black.



Good luck!
 
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This was done using mostly auto conversions in CS6: Image>adjustments> black&white, then image>adjustments>posterize>levels=3, then a tweak in Levels to bring up the mid-tones a bit, and a crop to finish. you can do pretty much the same using Elements. Fiddling around more with a bigger file would give a better result (well, it nearly always does... :))
 
Thanks, I had a look at doing it like that but I wasn't convinced it'd work well with the text etc. rather than having each element a separate shade. Thanks though.
 
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