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Engraving effect?

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Engraving effect? erroneus 15 Oct 01:52
  Engraving effect? Kevin Cozens 15 Oct 02:05
  Engraving effect? Liam R E Quin 15 Oct 03:27
erroneus
2012-10-15 01:52:23 UTC (over 12 years ago)
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Engraving effect?

I have done all sorts of things and most of the time, what I can't do is usually limited by my own imagination. But in this case, I'm not sure it's my imagination lacking.

If you have ever taken a close look at printed currency, there is usually a particular style of engraving that goes on there. It follows the contours of the image being presented, for example. In the past, I have put my face on a $100 bill but with limited success in terms of how realistic the results were. In my view, the results were not so great because the filters I applied to my face image were of a different style and definitely did not look like money engraving.

Anyone have any knowledge of filters and/or techniques which can produce the desired effect?

Kevin Cozens
2012-10-15 02:05:32 UTC (over 12 years ago)

Engraving effect?

On 12-10-14 09:52 PM, erroneus wrote:

If you have ever taken a close look at printed currency, there is usually a particular style of engraving that goes on there.

There is an emboss filter and the carve-it filter in GIMP. Perhaps one of those may help you achieve the look you are after.

Liam R E Quin
2012-10-15 03:27:01 UTC (over 12 years ago)

Engraving effect?

On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 03:52 +0200, erroneus wrote:

If you have ever taken a close look at printed currency, there is usually a particular style of engraving that goes on there. It follows the contours of the image being presented, for example

You could try filters->distort->engraving, but I have had very little success with it because it does not follow the image.

With a lot of effort you could rotate different parts of the image and apply the filter, and then join the parts by hand-drawing, I expect.

If you look very closely at money in a country where the money is hard to forge (not the US :-)) you'll see the engraver's lines are sometimes actually made of lines of really tiny text, too.

An alternative is to find an engraved portrait and modify it a little, e.g. see http://www.fromoldbooks.org/?kw=portraits for some old engraved faces on my Web site.

Liam