BG Made From Photos

[Shad12ow]

Hey there.
I was looking for a\backgrounds for my VN, but instead of images, I found plenty of photos I can use.
But I prefer it to be drawn image, not photo.
Is it possible to either trace on it or put filters on it to make it look like it was drawn?
Sorry for the newbie question.
Thank you all...

Edit:
These are the following tutorial everyone here have contributed.
I don't own any of them and for the tutorial they have gave, you have to ask them yourself.
I just posted them here.

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[junna]

short answer. Yes.

here's an example how. You can find more on DA too.

http://starca.deviantart.com/art/Tutori ... -324155191

[Shad12ow]

short answer. Yes.

here's an example how. You can find more on DA too.

http://starca.deviantart.com/art/Tutori ... -324155191

Thank you for the short yet meaningful answer.
But I can't download the image from that link though.
I'll try to look for another one. Have any more related link?

[junna]

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/ ... 5czrqv.jpg

Now try...Right-click save from there. It's the same tutorial though.

[dramspringfeald]

Yeah, that's kind of the way it's done now. That or CGI w/ Toon shaders it depends on your tastes and skill.

[Shad12ow]

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/ ... 5czrqv.jpg

Now try...Right-click save from there. It's the same tutorial though.

Nope, still the same result. I don't know why.
Well, time to search for another one then.
Thanks a bunch.

Edit : Ah, now it's working.Thank you!

[fleet]

Here's another approach.
http://herselfswebtools.com/2007/06/7-s ... -gimp.html

[Ayutac]

Here's another approach.
http://herselfswebtools.com/2007/06/7-s ... -gimp.html

I like this approach. Is there more, e.g. colours? Because the results from the first solution are amazing, but it also seems like a lot of work, thus takes a lot of time and I don't have the latter.

Third way would be to trace/vectorize the background by hand, the solution I would go for, but that also requires some time.

[fleet]

You could try just applying a gaussian blur filter to the photograph.

original photo

To do this, open the picture file in Gimp.
Click on Filter
In the drop down menu, click on Blur.
In the side menu, click on Gaussian blur.

[Ayutac]

That is not so much satisfying. For now I use Filter->Artistic->Oilify... to remove the "looks like a photography" effect, but that's not so close to a anime-/cartoon-like image.

On the other side, it would make things to easy if that functionality would already exist, right?

[Shad12ow]

Yeah, it not so close to a anime/cartoon-like image.
I know that making it yourself is the best.
But in the past I read one tutorial that teach you how to trace the photo and then color using a few simple step to achieve a decent image-like background.
And unfortunately, I forgot to bookmark that tutorial.
Hahahahaha....

[Auro-Cyanide]

I did it a fair bit and I made a short walk through of it http://blog.cyanide-tea.net/2012/05/20/ ... om-photos/
Though I did a fair bit of repainting as well, I was generally using the photo as a structural and colour base. Generally speaking, the more work you do, the better a background will look.

[Shad12ow]

I did it a fair bit and I made a short walk through of it http://blog.cyanide-tea.net/2012/05/20/ ... om-photos/
Though I did a fair bit of repainting as well, I was generally using the photo as a structural and colour base. Generally speaking, the more work you do, the better a background will look.

Finally found it!!!!
This is the tutorial I mentioned before.
After months of looking (well, 2 months to be exact) , I actually found not only the tutorial, but also the author of the tutorial!
This is very unexpected.
Thank you very much

[Auro-Cyanide]

I did it a fair bit and I made a short walk through of it http://blog.cyanide-tea.net/2012/05/20/ ... om-photos/
Though I did a fair bit of repainting as well, I was generally using the photo as a structural and colour base. Generally speaking, the more work you do, the better a background will look.

Finally found it!!!!
This is the tutorial I mentioned before.
After months of looking (well, 2 months to be exact) , I actually found not only the tutorial, but also the author of the tutorial!
This is very unexpected.
Thank you very much

Oh, XD

I should have mentioned it earlier than. If you have an questions, feel free to ask

[Shad12ow]

Thank you very much!
I will.