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Hunter Member Registered: July 2002 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 81 users gallery	I think this might fit more in line with what Doug commented on in his original post. This file is in PNG format due to the fact it was 1/4th the size of the JPG (JPG not handling solid colors like this all too well without artifacting to hell and gone) Converted this to greyscale, cutout the man and erased the area around him. I then put in a radial gradient behind him. After that, I "worked the magick" on the pic I'm leaving out the "magick" details at the moment to see if there's any interest in what I did. software used: Corel Photopaint 12
	· Date: 7/21/2004 · Views: 10734 · Filesize: 272.9kb, 106.0kb · Dimensions: 800 x 1048 ·
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pjb

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Registered: August 2002
Location: Casselberry, Florida
Posts: 74

7/21/2004 12:16pm

wonderful job I like the texture of the face.

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Timbo

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Registered: July 2004
Location: Sheffield UK

7/21/2004 12:25pm

Nice one mate - me likey very muchy. Cool texture.

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Hunter
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Registered: July 2002
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 81

7/21/2004 12:25pm

Thanks, PJB! For me, the key to keeping detail in this one was to reduce the size before I started working on it, unlike most challenges where I work on the original-sized image and then resample down to 800px wide per Doug's instructions. When I tried that on this image, the downsampling just created a lot of greyscale artifacts that muddied up the image.

Hunter
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Registered: July 2002
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 81

7/21/2004 12:27pm

Thanks, Timbo! It was really a lot easier to do than you'd think

I'll post more details later.

Doug Nelson

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Registered: August 2001
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7/21/2004 2:18pm

I love the "etch-tone" effect. It resembles the portraits used on American paper money. The moire generated in the thumbnails is some accidental fun, as well.

There appears to be some haloing, but with all the gymnastics you had to go through to upload it, that could be generated anywhere along the line.

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Hunter
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Registered: July 2002
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 81

7/21/2004 2:42pm

Yeah, the moire effect on the gradient in the background was certainly not planned

re: the haloing... do you mean the "blank" space around parts of the hat and the shoulders? I'm not sure what caused that as the gradient did hit the shoulders. Odds are that was an area of the clipmask (PS users read: layer mask) that I had not "erased" completely.

I must confess that I really didn't do much to this other than my clipmasking the man and removing the background and replacing it with the gradient. The etching, etc., was all done by a single pass through a filter.

This one was done with Flaming Pear's India Ink filter (www.flamingpear.com/indiaink.html) - I just d/l'd the demo and produced it via their interface. This was the "magick."

I know of two other filters that can accomplish similar effects - both can be found over at Andromeda's website (www.andromeda.com). The filters in question are the Series 3 Screens filter and the Cutline Filter (the Cutline is more like the effect you were wanting, Doug). And speaking of etching, take a look at their EtchTone filter. I'd link to the individual pages, but Andromeda uses frames, so i can't link to a particular page (and keep their site useful).

jch71566

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Registered: August 2003
Location: Texas Hill Country
Posts: 242

7/21/2004 3:33pm

Hunter, the "haloing" is from the sharpen section of India Ink. I basically did the same thing as you, but couldn't upload.

This is a great pic, by the way!

Hunter
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Registered: July 2002
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 81

7/21/2004 3:36pm

JCH, I think Doug's fixed the upload issue - you might try uploading a PNG instead of a JPG on this one. And thanks for the kind words re: the pic!

allieok

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Registered: November 2007
Location: Oklahoma City
Posts: 43

11/24/2007 8:21pm

I love this. I must look into Flaming pear :-)

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