Creating a fake video screen shot…

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Marty_Maxwell
Feb 19, 2004
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I am trying to create an effect on images that would simulate what an image would look like if you photographed it on tv. I have come close to achieving the effect using the texturizer filter, using the bricks, but it is not quite right. Since the scale will only go down to 50% the lines of texture are too big. Any ideas on how to create this effect?

I am using Photoshop CS.

Thanks!
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JasonSmith
Feb 19, 2004
Duplicate the layer. Go to filter>sketch>halftone pattern, select ‘lines’ as the pattern type. (you may want to have B/W as the foreground/background color)

Try different blend modes with the layers until you see something you like.

OR

You could create a custom pattern of horizontal lines, and apply that via layer styles, with the pattern set to some wierd blend mode.
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Paul_Hokanson
Feb 19, 2004
To add to Jason’s tip… once you create the halftone patern lines (on a separate layer) run the spherize distort filter to push the middle out a bit. This will simulate the older, curved TV screens.

There are filters that simulate TV effects also… do a Google.
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JasonSmith
Feb 19, 2004
Ohh, that would be cool.

That gave me another idea – on the duplicate halftoned layer, try this:

Go to the channels palette, select each channel and offset by a pixel or two – faux ps out of convergence effect.
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Shep
Feb 20, 2004
Marty,

Paul mentioned filters to accomplish this. Here’s one: <http://www.alienskin.com/xx2/xx2_filters.html>

Click the drop down menu and select "Television".
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Doug_Katz
Feb 20, 2004
Both of Jason’s ideas will work great. A small distinction that may or may not matter to you: The halftone sketch filter produces an opaque layer – both lines and "space between" are pixels. By contrast, you can make a pattern so that the space between is transparent. This is not significant because opacity controls and blend modes will help you precisely control what happens to both, but I recall having to use a pattern once for precisely this reason (and CAN’T even remember what the illustration was! Just that I needed transparency between the lines! Memory’s shot!)
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Marty_Maxwell
Feb 20, 2004
Shep-

I downloaded the Television filters and they will not work on either PS 7 or PS CS. The error message says "could not complete television command b/c of a program error". Just wondering if you had any problems???

thanks a lot
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Shep
Feb 21, 2004
Don’t know what to tell you on that one Marty. It works fine for me; PS7.0.1. I thought that perhaps they disabled that filter on the demo version, but I checked the site and it says fully functional for 30 days, so that’s not the case. Do the other Xenofex filters work?

Maybe re-install it or redownload and re-install. Sorry I can’t be of more help.

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