Making a realistic old school high contrast Litho

[lkroll]

Then Techni-X is, I believe what you want. I actually like using Mehdi's Fine Threshold filter (free too) since it does a cleaner job.

[crabbyphoto]

Actually Joeven's recipe with a few little modifications I think will work a lot better than threshold. I know I can some close using either Nik, OnOne, or Exposure which I have.
But its not the same thing that some of us are used to from the stone age, yet the old look is really great for composites.

Here is what I came up with from Joe's recipe with out any modifications (yet). Not too bad! (first two pages in this link.)

Thanks gang.

http://web.me.com/crabtreephoto/Orth...er_tech_2.html

[crabbyphoto]

Ikroll I am going to grab those items you mentioned also.

Did you have a link to those or did I miss it?

Thanks
Jimmy

[lkroll]

Ahh; you wanted an illustrative like look, more so then mine above. Easy to do using Mehdi's Finethreshold (done more then a few of these). Just run it with two different settings on two different layers and adjust the opacity to taste. Done. Anyway, Mehdi's Fine-threshold plugin link is below.

http://www.mehdiplugins.com/english/finethreshold.htm

[csuebele]

Originally Posted by crabbyphoto

Chuck.... Love your splash page.

Thanks! I'm going to be 53 next month. Got hooked on litho in highschool after seeing a bunch of yearbook spreads done with it. Got on the yearbook and created my own lith spreads. Worked while in high school as a cameraman/stripper for a small offset printing place. Had to use a glass halftone screen as the camera was a plywood box with wax to hold the film. Later got a job in areospace making PMTs for folks to xerox photos as well as other stuff. Went through tons of LPD4 & kodalith making overheads for presentations - all computer done now. One place I worked, I used one of those huge template cameras, but the last process camera I used was much smaller. You can see a photo of it on my website on the about tab. I ended up dismantling it - hard to do, but we didn't use it any more. Threw away lots of halftone & tint screens. As far as the developer, I used to like the Naco (I think that's what it was called) A & B. It came as a liquid and lasted a long time. Used to order from Freestyle also. their cheap litho film was not the best. got some bad batches that I had a hard time getting good blacks. Yea, the younger folks don't really realize what they've missed buy just doing digital, but then after being on my feet for years in the dark room, I really don't miss it.

[kiska]

Lyle, I can't get the Techni-X to show up in my filters. I'm on a Mac, cs3. Tried all kinds of ways. Thanks.

[lkroll]

Not even sure that Cybia offers Techni-X for Macs and am not that familier with Macs either. Maybe someone here with a Mac can help. Hope you get your issue resolved Kiska.

[gholmes1936]

Cybia states that it is for Windows only, so we're out of luck on that one.

[kiska]

Ah, well. Maybe Lyle's link is old.

[lkroll]

Not sure what website you are going to Kiska, but Cybia is the site that I'm referring too and I do not see a Mac version on their site. Hopefully this is not a malicious site that you are at.

http://www.cybia.co.uk/fotomatic.html

[gholmes1936]

Seems we have two different plugins being talked about here. One only works with Windows and one works with Windows and Mac. It does state Macs as far back as OS 8 and OS X. I wonder what it would do in a Mac with Intel inside and OS 10.6.2?
The two URL's are:

http://www.cybia.co.uk/fotomatic.html This is the one that Lyle mentions.

and http://www.cybia.co.uk/technix.htm This is the one that Kiska mentions.

I think I will download the old mac one and see what we shall see. I'll get back to you all on this.

[gholmes1936]

I installed the plugin that Kiska mentioned but it doesn't show up in my iMac 2009 with Adobe Photoshop CS4.

[crabbyphoto]

Gunner;

Same here on MY iMac which is a 24" late 2009 machine... Maybe It won't run on leopard.

Jimmy

[gholmes1936]

Or Snow Leopard.

[crabbyphoto]

yea thats what I was trying to say Gunner.

[kiska]

I have the one before leopard; I get all these cats confused. ANYWAY, I also have cs and tried it there. It worked. I think you need, as a 'companion piece' the BW plus. Still doesn't work in cs3

[lkroll]

Cool info Gunner. It's the same company. Not sure why they would have two separate sites to host the free plugin (one Windows only and one both). Oh well. Now I'm relieved for Kiska that it's legitimate (paranoid I am).

[MiningArt]

The first uses the Martin Koch plugin. The second are interlaced dynamic threshold versions.

http://www.verlagmartinkoch.at/software/

Sample image from:
http://www.public-domain-photos.com/people/face-1.htm

[kiska]

Technix in cs on a mac.

[gholmes1936]

That's more like it, right?