Tip: Give your photos an unusual-film look

Unusual and innovatively doctored photos can be used in many products for sale, like say a compelling calendar or something as simple as a framed shot. The key is in choosing the right photo and adding your own splash of creativity.

You can give your photos the look of A Scanner Darkly, the recent film based on a Philip K. Dick book and as equally quirky as Dick's writings. For the film, the movie makers used a posterized live-action animation style and had to repaint each frame, but to make your photos look this way is easier of course. You need Adobe Illustrator and a suitable photo. Photos of people seem to work better.

See the tutorial (written by one of the film's animators) here at IllustratorTechniques.com [via Photojojo]