June 28, 2007

Make your photo into a Wall Street Journal style hedcut. How cool is that? caveat emptor: photoshop tutorial, not a webmachine.
  • Well, that's pretty nifty, right there. Post GIMP tutorial plz kthx
  • wow they look really good - but am i right in saying you draw all the dots yourself?
  • GIMP tutorial: get male, rm clothes, add ropes and chains, insert apple, call it a night.
  • That's what Mommy used to do to Monday Daddy!
  • GIMP = Get In My Pillory?
  • This reminds me a bit of Hyperdither, a freeware OS X util that simulates the old one-bit graphics from the original Mac OS. Kind of fun.
  • Holy shit that is awesome. I didn't really read everything, but just in glancing at it I can't believe that they take a photo of some guy with thinning hair and a suit and keep tinkering with it until he looks like Abraham Fucking Lincoln! That is so awesome.
  • You mean I actually have to use my own hands? To hell with that!
  • It's a cool effect, though I found the posted examples didn't quite match the full-effect of the WSJ style. I might have to give this a go-at when I have some downtime at home. Lara, haven't you invested in an ocular mouse yet? *shifts eyes wildly*
  • Scanlines at right angles on two layers, the top one blended "dodge colour" with the other, will produce a dot matrix. Saves having to bother with the pen tool.
  • Teh Missus
  • Meh! I did this with my picture, and it didn't even take of 5 pounds, let alone that extra thirtwentfife other weight I had hoped for. And the zitty young snot next to me said he didn't need more face dots. I guess this is why we'll never be on the front page of the WSJ.
  • Why would anyone want to be (mis)taken for a right-wing neo-Friedmannite Bush-administration-apologist anyhow?
  • For the money, of course.
  • Also you've got a better chance of scoring with Ann Coulter. Which, whether you think she's attractive or not, that's a story to tell. I mean, seriously, that's party conversation fodder, right there.
  • They eye mouse made me seasick.
  • it's a good idea, but still needs a bit of work imho. for reference: wall street journal hedcut portraits of clinton & bush you can see right away how the ^wsj ones are much more rough and 'texturized'... compared w/ the ps tutorial ones, where the crosshatches are barely visible.
  • Now that Murdoch has acquired Dow Jones, will the page 3 girl in the new WSJ be a photograph or a faux etching?