These are examples of the Live Trace and Live Paint features which effectively turn photo's into representations of artwork. There are a few controls to fiddle with, such as the number of colours to be used (2-256), pixel areas, etc. Then it's a matter of clicking and waiting (not long) for the software to do its work.
You wouldn't want to overdo it, but these examples were literally knocked up in 20 minutes.
What do you reckon?






Cheers
Peter