Gimp and pumpkins, looking for a particular effect

[Dr Kevorkian94]

Ok so this year I'm looking to make an extremely awesome carved pumpkin, and i don't want to free hand it this year. So the type of carve I'm doing is a 4 layer/color method, where the shading of the subject in the photo will act as the dimension in the carve. But to do this i need a photo to be changed to something like this:

i took this from a site but it didn't show how to do it

 

[hnzxdv]

I think the effect you're after is called posterize. Here's a link to a tutorial.

http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/graphics_tools/gimp_user_manual/en/gimp-tool-posterize.html

Hope this helps.

 

[Dr Kevorkian94]

I think the effect you're after is called posterize. Here's a link to a tutorial.

http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/graphics_tools/gimp_user_manual/en/gimp-tool-posterize.html

Hope this helps.

Yes! Now I have to get everything orange but I can figure that out, thanks

 

[handsome pete]

Yes! Now I have to get everything orange but I can figure that out, thanks

You'll also have to mess around with contrast and levels to get it accurate. And no need to change the color to orange either. A simple black and white image will do just fine.

 

[Dr Kevorkian94]

You'll also have to mess around with contrast and levels to get it accurate. And no need to change the color to orange either. A simple black and white image will do just fine.

i know i just like the color orange