cool thanks for the images, one way I got them to look like the actors is by a process of photos to textures then creating three textures for each character then layering those textures apon each other with an alpha channel so each layer was 50 percent transparent showing though to the next layer and the next, allowing the final texture that was saved to pick up any lost information.

 

I used jasc paint shop pro 6 to do te alpha channel layering.