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Line Engraving Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Name: Line Engraving Effect in Adobe Photoshop
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Sophisticated Graphics Through Non-Destructive Technique

Banknote engraving and postage-stamp aesthetics have a distinct visual weight. This class teaches you to recreate that sophistication digitally using Photoshop's non-destructive smart filters. Once you build the effect, you can apply it instantly to any image with minimal tweaking—prints, posters, or a whole series gain coherence and polish. The technique works best on well-toned images: portraits, paintings, digital art. You'll learn wavy and straight line variants, so the effect stays flexible for different subjects. Since everything is non-destructive, experimentation is painless.

About this course

Imitate Line Engraving with a Non-Destructive Smart Effect in Adobe Photoshop.

This effect creates a sophisticated graphic look of line-work and shading similar to the style used in banknotes, postal stamps and etchings, and can be used to create stunning prints, posters or give the same feel to a collection of images. This technique can also be used to prepare your images for screen printing, letterpress or intaglio printing.

With this effect you can stylise images with a good tonal range, such as:

photographs (well-lit portraits work great);
found images,
paintings,
drawings,
digital art with shading.

Everything in this class deals with non-destructive smart filters and adjustments, so once you have built the effect, you can easily apply it to any other images with just a little bit of tweaking!

In this class you will learn:

how to build wavy line engraving effect in Adobe Photoshop;
how to quickly apply it to other images;
how to adjust and customise this effect;
how to build two alternative straight line effects.

I cannot wait to see what you create in this class, join in and share your work!

* This technique can be used in Adobe Photoshop CC versions. It should also work fine in previous versions, though it would require a work-around for smart adjustments.