Re: Newspaper effects in PhotoShop.

by "Kathy Siddall" <ksiddall(at)attcanada.net>

Date:	Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:21:39 -0800
To:	"Charner Rouse" <carouse(at)surfsouth.com>, "Ramon Bartschat" <bartschat(at)goldnet.sk>
Cc:	"Mike Taylor" <lonewolf(at)one.net>, <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
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It looks to me as though the opposite side of the page is showing through
and  then it was colorized.
I scan newspaper clippings often and this is what I often end up with.

Subject: Re: Newspaper effects in PhotoShop.


|As Ramon said they probably 'flipped' it, and they could
|have also softened it or blurred it to where it was almost unreadable.
|
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|Charner Rouse
|Technical Support
|Surf South, Inc.
|(912)245-8100
|carouse(at)surfsouth.com
|
|On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Ramon Bartschat wrote:
|
|> >My guess is that an original WSJ clipping was scanned in and then the
|> >original text was lifted and replaced with the fictional story, but I
can't
|> >figure out how they got the words from the other side of the page to
show
|> >through, unless it was done using an opacity trick.
|>
|>
|> I think they took a block of text, flipped it horizontally and applied a
|> very high degree of transparency.
|>
|> Ramon
|>
|>
|>
|

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