Pacquiao Vector Poster

Finished another photoshop/illustrator tutorial, courtesy of vector.tutsplus.com. The original tutorial teaches you how to create one of those inspirational political posters. It starts off with some basic image editing techniques in Photoshop and then load the images to illustrator.

Here is the original image taken from the vectortuts+ website:



I decided to use Manny Pacquiao as the poster boy for my vector exercise. I got this image of him from MFJ Tribune:

 

Actually I cheated a few steps in the tutorial. I should have used the Pen tool to trace the image of Manny (as suggested in the tutorial), but I got lazy. Instead, I used Illlustrator's Live Trace feature to automatically draw the image outline. But it works for me.