Original image that was used. This was an adorable image that I'm using as inspiration for two fictional characters in a future novel, and I named them Sage and Marigold. Of course Sage always has to pick on her sister.
Final result- I followed a tutorial I found online. The background is from the orginal image and using layers I separated the dogs from the background. I applied the posterize filter to the desired setting. i wanted it to look like a painting of the dogs but keeping the original background. With a couple of layer styles on top of the posterized layer I used a stroke (for the outlining) and drop shadow for the contrasting shadow around the outline.
Today I thought I'd try something new. (Well, as I continue to immerse myself into Photoshop, EVERYTHING feels a little new to me) I love comic books and manga, especially and a few years ago I saw the director's cut of Walter Hill's THE WARRIORS and although the "comic book" look of the new version didn't meet with approval with older fans of the film, I was intrigued with the effect (I certainly have not thrown out my old Paramount DVD!), and I wanted to try it after seeing the effect used in various different ways. Film is were you would normally see this effect used and I have yet to see it in actual practice. But the types of imagery that can be created with this technique is very cool. So if one wanted to achieve a comic book or even a Pop Art feel, this is the technique to go with or try to do. For my image, I thought it really gave the image sort of a more 'playful' feel. I think this may not have been the best image to try this technique for the first because just getting the dogs isolated onto their own layer was tricky because of the fur on the outline of their bodies so when I did the stroke effect, it didn't look exactly right and needed a little clean-up and retouching at the end. I found that the best images were ones where the image would have more solid, firmer edges to which to create a better 'outline' and thus a better and nicer the rotoscope effect. Still, for my very first attempt at this technique, I don't think it came out all that badly.
