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Woodcut solution: Creating a woodcut-style drawing

Woodcut solution: Creating a woodcut-style drawing

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Woodcut solution: Creating a woodcut-style drawing

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(chime) - How'd that work out for you? Did I give you enough time? This is just to share the technique, so don't be worried about the detail on this first pass. You're actually done with the hard part. So, now, if you'll either scan your tracing paper or take a quick snap of it to send to Photoshop. We want to take the scan and invert it so what's black is now white and vice versa. And this is where the magic happens. An instant, wood-carved block print of the logo. If you want a preview of how it's going to look, and your phone or iPad have photobooth on them, you can go to x-ray mode and see a reasonable preview in real time. Here's a couple of quick tips. As you bring this into Photoshop, you want to play with your levels to get just the right amount of that extra line work that makes it look like a woodcut. You'll also want to experiment with the scale of the drawing you're making. And the type of pen and the strokes that you use. Just remember, in the end, you're emulating a…

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