Steel Engraving

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Author: ScaryKitty

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Description

Steel Engraving is a simple little filter that makes your image look like a steel engraving. You can control line frequency, ink and paper colour, pattern tightness, and image tonality. You can even make a postage stamp out of your image! ^_^

NOTES:
Not all aspect ratios will make perfect stamp borders, though some non-square images work fine. "Standard" digital camera proportions seem to work.

The stamp perforations won't line up properly unless you set "Size, pixels" to an even fraction of the full image resolution (1/2, 1/4, etc.).

Higher values for "Number of Lines" might produce nasty moiré patterns, especially with lower-res images. Be sure to view at 100% if you're concerned.

CREDITS:
I have been working on this a while, but got kind of stuck. Many thanks, then, to truman ("Adaptive Lines") CFandM ("Screen Works") for kicking me out of my rut and into the right direction. Thanks also to uberzev, whose snippet "Rotate Any Angle" I adapted for this filter. :-)

Keywords

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Filter Controls

• Ink Colour
• Paper Colour
• Shadows
• Midtones
• Highlights
• Number of Lines
• Texture Balance
• Wave Tightness
• Make Stamp