WSJ-type Portait on Business Card?

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Oct 17, 2005
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During a recent event, I should’ve had a lot of personal business cards with me. Due to the nature of the event, it would’ve been useful to have a similar portrait of myself on the card too. The idea is only to tie name to the face. Nothing glamorous.

I like the wood-cut style portraits in the Wall Street Journal, and would like to approximate something like that.

So: A tiny half-inch-squared B&W laser printed image on office-supply perf-cut business card stock. (Since the waterproof-ness of the laser printing is needed, I won’t be doing ink-jet.)

Suggestions for a simple technique please?

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Wizard of Draws
Oct 17, 2005
On 10/17/05 12:59 PM, in article ,
"Wayne R." wrote:

During a recent event, I should’ve had a lot of personal business cards with me. Due to the nature of the event, it would’ve been useful to have a similar portrait of myself on the card too. The idea is only to tie name to the face. Nothing glamorous.

I like the wood-cut style portraits in the Wall Street Journal, and would like to approximate something like that.

So: A tiny half-inch-squared B&W laser printed image on office-supply perf-cut business card stock. (Since the waterproof-ness of the laser printing is needed, I won’t be doing ink-jet.)

Suggestions for a simple technique please?

The portraits in the WSJ are pen and ink technique done by hand. Probably an artist is your best bet for best results.

There used to be a pretty decent Photoshop crosshatch filter at Inklination.com, but that doesn’t seem to be a valid URL anymore. —
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Todd Radel
Oct 17, 2005
Flaming Pear india ink filter does a good job of recreating this photograph style
"Wayne R." wrote in message
During a recent event, I should’ve had a lot of personal business cards with me. Due to the nature of the event, it would’ve been useful to have a similar portrait of myself on the card too. The idea is only to tie name to the face. Nothing glamorous.

I like the wood-cut style portraits in the Wall Street Journal, and would like to approximate something like that.

So: A tiny half-inch-squared B&W laser printed image on office-supply perf-cut business card stock. (Since the waterproof-ness of the laser printing is needed, I won’t be doing ink-jet.)

Suggestions for a simple technique please?
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Tacit
Oct 18, 2005
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Wayne R. wrote:

I like the wood-cut style portraits in the Wall Street Journal, and would like to approximate something like that.

This question is asked about once a month on one of the Photoshop forums.

There are filters, such as Andromeda Screens, which will break a photo up into lines. However, you will never get results that look anything like the Wall Street Journal.

The images in the WSJ are not done on a computer, and there is no computer program or filter that will produce those effects. The WSJ is quite proud of its illustrations, because every one of them is done by hand by a skilled artist, without using a computer at all.


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