Pointillism effect

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Alex_Cougarman
Jul 26, 2007
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Hi. Is there a way in Photoshop CS3 to convert a raster image (photo) into a pointillism style image? I see these black and white graphics of prominent people in the Wall Street Journal whose images are made up of tiny dots — very artistic. How is this done? Thanks.
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chrisjbirchall
Jul 26, 2007
How far down the list of filters did you look? Did you stop before you got to… erm…

Pointillize?

😉
JJ
John_Joslin
Jul 26, 2007
If that isn’t what you’re looking for, try converting to Greyscale and then Bitmap in Image > Mode. Then select Halftone Screen with a pattern you fancy.
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Alex_Cougarman
Jul 26, 2007
Thanks, John. That’s exactly what I needed 🙂
JJ
John_Joslin
Jul 26, 2007
Glad to help.

(And I don’t even read the Wall Street Journal. B) )
JR
John_R_Nielsen
Jul 26, 2007
The pictures in the WSJ are done by hand, with pen and ink.
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Danny_Raphael
Jul 27, 2007
Article on WSJ-style images, hand crafted as JohnN noted:

<http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/journal/index.htm>
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John_Joslin
Jul 27, 2007
That’s a very interesting article Danny, but I don’t think Alex will be spending 5 hours doing each one by hand!

Afterthought: Even if he had the artistic skills and materials!

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