what software do i need to convert pictures to monochrome

[Liam Pattison]

you can do it in photoshop by altering the contrast and playing with filters quite easily.

Liam

[John McNickle]

cheers Liam sadly ive never learnt much about photoshop, i tried a course once but it only covered the real basics 🙁 i just had heard one time of a program that did it, im getting asked about mirrors with family members on them in this way

[Phill Fenton]

I think what you need John is to convert to Black and white rather than monochrome. Monochrome is simply two colours but includes all in between shades (greyscale is a typical example) whereas black and white does not contain the gradients. Black and white is then cuttable whereas greyscale is not.

An easy way (using Corel) is to export your image in black and white

[Peter Normington]

I am not sure of the terminology, I thought monochrome meant one colour.
the other being white, which is not a colour, (yes it can be argued black is white) Anyway most photo programs will turn an image into a black and white image, but there a numerous choices as to how its done, bit generally a line art option is best,

is this the effect you are looking for?

[John Childs]

quote Peter Normington:

I am not sure of the terminology, I thought monochrome meant one colour

Yes, you’re right, monochrome does mean one colour, usually, but not always, black.

But it can give the illusion of tints in between by varying the balance between the colour and white pixels/dots. Just like halftone photo in a newspaper, which is just black and white dots but, when viewed from far enough away, blend to form the image.

i once had a piece of software that would convert an image into something that could be cut in a single colour vinyl. It did this by cutting lines, but varying the thickness of them to produce a monochrome image. It was actually very useful in the days before printers.

[Peter Normington]

https://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … cut#303932

[John Childs]

That’s the one. 😀

[Peter Normington]

are we having a ground hog day?
https://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … 917#303917

[John Childs]

quote Peter Normington:

are we having a ground hog day?

Or my memory’s getting shorter. 😀

[Phill Fenton]

quote Peter Normington:

the other being white, which is not a colour, (yes it can be argued black is white)

But white is a colour. It is made up of all the colours of the visible spectrum.

It’s black that’s not a colour as it is made from an absence of visible light 😕

[Soyeb Ravat]

to get that effect

adobe photoshop > image > adjustments > threshold adjust the bar as requied and click okay!!

best of luck

[Harry Cleary]

I had an image like this (can’t find the exact one) converted by somebody on the boards with Signlab (but I now know it can be done in Trace in Corel x3)

and then painted it for the backdrop here

You just need to play with the settings

[Soyeb Ravat]

That kind of effect can also be done in illustrator if that is what you have on your computer. click image and then go to the proprties bar at the top. click the live trace function and play around with the settings on the left. it converts it in to vector paths which you can then add, simplify, complicate the design as required.

Hope that helps!! 😀

[James Martin]

Photoshop has a stamp and halftone feature under Filter/Sketch

[John McNickle]

cheers guys for all your input on this, i now know what it is im trying to say or do with these pics 🙂