Can someone explain how to make these effects with images in Illustrator?

[dylanb26155176]

Could someone please describe in detail how these types of effects are achieved, what are they using, whats the process?

[Steve Werner · Accepted solution]

Illustrator is (mostly) a program that works with vectors. Those are raster (bit-mapped) images. I'd ask the question in the Photoshop forum.

[Mylenium]

They're just extreme adjustments like e.g. using Levels or Curves to eliminate details, combined with blur effects and something like a gradient map layer style to recolor everything. Otehr steps liek actualyl having to cut out silhouettes can of course be involved. As already pointed out by @Steve Werner it's nothing you would do in AI. This is photoshop all the way...

Mylenium