Interlaced TV style

Hi all,

how can I make a picture to look like a screenshot from a tv with bad resolution (so that you can see the "dark" interlaced lines in the picture). Thanxs in advance,

Martin

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Hi all,

how can I make a picture to look like a screenshot from a tv with bad resolution (so that you can see the "dark" interlaced lines in the picture). Thanxs in advance,

Martin

there is a filter that will do this but if you don't have or cant find try plying with the noise filter.

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there is a filter that will do this but if you don't have or cant find try plying with the noise filter.

The noise filte will add noise, but it will not add regular straight lines.

Instead, do this:

Make a new document with a transparent background, 1 pixel wide and 2 pixels high.

Using a 1-pixel pencil, make just the top pixel black.

Edit->Select All.

Edit->Define pattern.

Switch to your picture.

Create a new layer.

Edit->Fill; in the Fill dialog, choose fill with Pattern.

Presto! Instant cliched overused TV interlace effect. :)

(I actually used this effect recently in a Web page, but I didn't do it like this; instead, I displayed the image onto a low-res, antique green-screen monitor, then photographed the monitor. The resulting image was all in shades of green and wonderfully interlaced.)

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Try the Rorschach plug-in (freeware)

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Hi all,

how can I make a picture to look like a screenshot from a tv with bad resolution (so that you can see the "dark" interlaced lines in the picture). Thanxs in advance,

Martin

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Hi all,

how can I make a picture to look like a screenshot from a tv with bad resolution (so that you can see the "dark" interlaced lines in the picture). Thanxs in advance,

Martin

This can be done with Filter Foundry - with the example filter bwtv.afs (install plugin, run Filter Foundry on your image, click Load, find bwtv.afs in the examples folder). See
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/#filterfoundry

Toby

haptic wrote:

Hi all,

how can I make a picture to look like a screenshot from a tv with bad resolution (so that you can see the "dark" interlaced lines in the picture). Thanxs in advance,

Martin

There's lots of filters for this, or you can use the Pattern Fill method as Tacit describes, or you can use Sketch>Halftone Pattern--Lines. If you are using a Mac and you can find the Sucking Fish Filters Series use Midnights TV. It's the coolest.

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how can I make a picture to look like a screenshot from a tv with bad resolution (so that you can see the "dark" interlaced lines in the picture). Thanxs in advance,

Martin

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