How can i turn my picture into this? (pic included?!)?

Question

this is an example of avril lavigne. i want to know how you could turn an ordinary picture into something like this:

http://a856.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/73/l_707a7c93336ac646647e87db5fb80baf.jpg

is there a software? what can i download? i need it for free and online.

THANKS!

best answer 10 pts.

Answer 1

It is a vector art, you can use Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator to create a picture like that, I'm not sure but GIMP may also work which is a free software. You can either use the live trace feature of Adobe illustrator that creates a similar image but not exactly or you can draw it yourself, the picture you show is hand drawn.

If you decide to draw it yourself, basically all you have to do is using the original photo as the base layer which will guide you what to draw on top layers, you will have to draw all the shades and the lights and everything else one by one.

You can make a google search as " vector art tutorial " I'm sure you will come across with some easy and nice tutorials that will help you and show you how to draw one or you can also check the tutorials at deviant art there are lots of helpful tutorials too.

Answer 2

Try these free softwares:

Picasa-http://picasa.google.ca/intl/en/#utm_sou...

Gimp-http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.h...

Photoscape-http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index....