If you are unfamiliar with tom goes to the mayor it's an Adult Swim animation series Cartoon Network aired starting November of '04. Here is a technique to reproduce the character effects used in its unique style of animation:


"Tom goes to the mayor" effect in Photoshop


1) Get a photo of a person
2) Cut him/her our of the background
3) Make a new layer and set that person on top of the background layer
3) Set foreground/primary selection to a blue color (I used 4561C4)
4) Set background/secondary selection to a white color (I used F4F6F5)
5) Select the layer with the cut out person
6) Go to "Filter" => "Sketch" => "Photocopy"
7) Set "Detail" to 2 (or experiment)
8) Set "Darkness" to 50 (or experiment)
9) Apply the filter
10) Done



From:

http://img475.imageshack.us/my.php?image=whosdat9kt.jpg

To:

http://img475.imageshack.us/my.php?image=whosdat24rj.jpg

...and no, I have no idea who that girl is, I just did a Google image search for "green screen" and she's what came up...

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We should make flash movies with this technique...

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--EDIT--

Found a better guide:

http://www.columbusunderground.com/blog/walker/archives/ 00000086.html

~Kujila