X-Hatch
Hi everyone! Sorry the blog has been dormant for so long. I have had other things to do, I guess.
Back in the 90's, when Photoshop 6 cost a lot of money and there was no GiMP, there was a plug-in for Photoshop called X-Hatch by a company called Inklination. It was a ridiculously-powerful little plug in that allowed the user to do all manner of really interesting renderings which are all types of cross-hatch effects to a photo.
Unfortunately, that plug-in has simply vanished and there hasn't really been a replacement for it as far as I can tell. I have a clever little app on my Android pad which will do something like X-Hatch to photos, but it's just not the same.
This tutorial is also not exactly the same, but it will be able to move you from something like this:
And with a few simple adjustments and a clever use of layers, come away with something that looks like this:
Click that second image to get the full effect, and then download this file, which is my x-hatch ba…
Back in the 90's, when Photoshop 6 cost a lot of money and there was no GiMP, there was a plug-in for Photoshop called X-Hatch by a company called Inklination. It was a ridiculously-powerful little plug in that allowed the user to do all manner of really interesting renderings which are all types of cross-hatch effects to a photo.
Unfortunately, that plug-in has simply vanished and there hasn't really been a replacement for it as far as I can tell. I have a clever little app on my Android pad which will do something like X-Hatch to photos, but it's just not the same.
This tutorial is also not exactly the same, but it will be able to move you from something like this:
And with a few simple adjustments and a clever use of layers, come away with something that looks like this:
Click that second image to get the full effect, and then download this file, which is my x-hatch ba…
