Sick of the same boring Jack OLantern faces?
Virtually any image can work with this technique, although higher quality is better.
Fine details are also hard to carve, so keep in mind you want to stay simple as possible.
will desaturate your image and turn it into grayscale.
Press
to open your levels.
Adjust the sliders as shown or use these values (148, 1.91, 185).
You want to increase your contrast until your image looks roughly like this.
You want heavy blacks, minimal grays, and stark whites.
Go to Image > Adjustments > Threshold.
Adjust your threshold based on how your image looks.
This value may not work perfectly for you, so experiment with it.
Youll gain and lose detail depending on your image.
Your image should lose all of its shades of gray.
Grab your paintbrush and paint black over the parts of the image you dont want.
The ghostly head of Bill is all that remains!
Youll have to paint these in with your mouse.
Erase the small bits that you dont want to have to carve, while youre at it.
will invert the colors on your image.
Lifehacker has already done afun article on tools to do just that.
Original image of Bill Gates byKees de Vos, available underCreative Commons licenseviaWikipedia.
Pumpkin2600ppx byFastily, available underCreative Commons licenseviaWikipedia.
