Here is the way to easily reach and modify interactively banknotes engravings effects like those obtained with some expensive plugins.
The pictures obtained are very well adapted to print at high definition with inkjet printers.
-1 overlay any well contrasted bitmap picture or any drawing made with Xara X with a 200 to 300 steps blend between two white lines (the space between the lines may be slighly wider than the lines width) ;
-2 select the bitmap or the drawing and convert it to a true color bitmap (at 300 dpi) ;
-3 keeping this bitmap selected, go to "utilities / bitmap effects and plugins / bitmap effects / color depth" and check "to mono diffusion".
Now you have a superb engraving like picture. If you want to colorize it, you can use any quadrangle of the same size, fill it with any kind of filling and use your black and white bitmap as transparency.
Tips : move the individual points of your blended lines to give the movement you wish to your picture ; overlay with a second
blend if you want a cross hatching.
Enjoy,
ivan
[This message was edited by ivan louette on July 23, 2002 at 13:57.]
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