I've been working on obtaining a fairly decent representation of the WSJ style hedcuts images, thanks in part to Rob A.'s instructions found here. Pay particular attention to his "Not Quite" post in that thread. 640 x 480 at 300 dpi (appears more "Cartoonish") Same exact technique at 1600 x 1200 300 dpi (a better [...]
First things first, the only three things you will need to accomplish this tutorial is 1) GIMP (I’m using 2.6.7), 2) the G’Mic plugin, found here, and 3) Line Nova, found in Filters/Render . Getting Started: Step 1: You want to start your image BIG, so open a new drawing at 8.5″ x 11″ in inches (612 x [...]
I’m going to show you how to turn this: Into this: Scripts/Plug-in(s) used in this tutorial: You’ll need to download the FX Foundry Scriptpack found here. This tutorial uses Convolution Matrix Presets: Edge Detect (Laplace). You’ll need to download the G’Mic plug-in found here. This tutorial uses the Enhancement filter called Anisotropic Smoothing (using Photocomix’s [...]