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#1 2009-04-25 4:04 pm
- 1parkpointer
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Filter out the stuff
I print up several 8.5" x 11" event posters for group activities. I would like to move on from text only posters to text and images. For the time being and until I get comfortable, I can only do black printing on whatever color card stock, I can go from color to black and white now. I would like to edit pictures that I have taken and change them into traced drawings or outlined images that I can add to my posters. Does anyone know if iPages and/or iPhoto allows a way to use image editing with filters that can remove the color filled areas of a picture. As an example, a ball is pictured. Using some sort of filter, the color of the ball along with any shading is filtered out leaving the outline of the ball image. Or possibly a cursor trace program that I could trace over the edges of objects and then remove the mass between the lines. Any help would be appreciated.
Intel iMac-24 with OS 10.5.6, iLife/iWork '08 versions, MS Office 2008 for Mac (Word, Excel, PP)
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#2 2009-04-25 6:52 pm
- macforme
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Re: Filter out the stuff
Well, I don't think you can do that in iPhoto. I played around for a bit and I couldn't get it to happen. You may want to try Gimp, it's an open source raster image editor that might be able to do what you want. The levels function should get you close and then you just have to use the paintbrush and paint over any areas left over. (Keep in mind I haven't used Gimp, but I do use Photoshop, and Gimp does quite a bit of what Photoshop does).
http://www.gimp.org/
Inkscape is a vector image editor that may have an autotrace function - but, once again, I've never used Inkscape. But I do use Illustrator, and Inkscape does some of what Illustrator does.
http://www.inkscape.org/
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