this one is 5'x5', also by john seal (brooklyn). if any of you are familiar with the band IQU, this is a painting of the singer/keyboard player, michiko's mom. wurd.
^i need to blow this up(might want to sell a few similar joints), but the resolution is sheitty(source materials that i use to do these things are off the web, 72dpi). any graphic designers on this site? what is the "best" way to dither the sheit or whatever so that i can blow it up to about say 12x18" (and print with like 150 dpi)?
i know there's programs for that, but what's the best way with photoshop? i dont mind making some additional layers and doing something like a cutout filter (since it is cartoony anyway), and messing with the layer channels... or i could make it vector like i guess... any idea what would be the most efficient way of going about this? thanksNadvance.
The one with the bald headed guy can be done by simply enlarging it (image size > change to 150 or 300 dpi > enlarge further to - say - 400%). Then you can use gaussian blur to smooth it out (filters > gaussian blur) and get rid off the worst jpeg shit. Then you can rasterize the thing (filter > pixilate > color halftone > probably with 4, 8 or 12 radius). The raster can be really fine or bold like a pop-art painting.
The other one is more difficult. If you do the same as described above, you'll lose information since it's a line-drawing. You may end up with something that's cool too, but the raster thing comes more natural with photo material. If I had to enhance something like that I would either trace it with Flash (first enlarge it anyway). It might be too blurred for a good result though. Maybe re-create it?
Here's a page I did that's on my wall.
thanks for the info man, actually its the bald headed one i wanted to enlarge, the other one i did in illustrator (so i can enlarge it to any size).
i like a lot of yalls walls(no paul). Lots of dope shit..im moving in a new house in a few weeks and need a few things to frame and throw up...wheres some sites for dope prints and shit? and Mike..im still getting that one we talked about.
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thanks for the info man, actually its the bald headed one i wanted to enlarge, the other one i did in illustrator (so i can enlarge it to any size).
Feeling your draw style, rock on.
I think I NEED this.
what/who is this from?
i like a lot of yalls walls(no paul). Lots of dope shit..im moving in a new house in a few weeks and need a few things to frame and throw up...wheres some sites for dope prints and shit? and Mike..im still getting that one we talked about.
Damn! My favorite so far, alot of rad stuff in this thread for sure.