Re: fretwork patterns

thx Dusty.

For the benefit of others, I found Filter/Sketch/Plaster/[Image Balance:10;
Smoothness:20] in PS6.0 gives me something to work with.. That kind of
filter process seems useful for what I'm looking for.


----- Original Message -----
From: Dusty <designsbydusty(at)tiadon.com>
To: John Murray <jmnc(at)lis.net.au>; <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: fretwork patterns


> There is something in the area of crafts called "Schnerrenschnitte" (sp?).
> Is this similar to what you are referring to? Or perhaps a Battenburg lace
> pattern-type effect?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Murray" <jmnc(at)lis.net.au>
> To: <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 6:56 PM
> Subject: fretwork patterns
>
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I do a bit of fretwork as a hobby. Fretwork is cutting out areas of a
flat
> > sheet so that the contrast between what is missing from the sheet and
what
> > remains of the sheet produces an image. It's like those cartoon drawings
> > that you see in newspapers of largish, angular blocks of black on white.
> [If
> > anyone knows what that style of drawing is I would love to know as it
> would
> > give me a tag to search by].
> >
> > So, why I am posting here is:
> >
> > Does anyone know of a sequence of steps in photoshop [I got 6.0] that
> might
> > get and approximation of that effect from photographs. What would your
> > intuition say to have a play with.
> >
> > T.I.A.
> >
> > John
> >
>
>

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