Wall Street Journal Graphics

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Uncle Joe
Aug 6, 2004
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I’m sure this question has been asked
before but what software does the Wall
Street Journal use to produce its grainy
head shots graphics?

TIA,

Uncle Joe
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tacitr
Aug 6, 2004
I’m sure this question has been asked
before but what software does the Wall
Street Journal use to produce its grainy
head shots graphics?

The Wall Street Journal does not use software to make those graphics. They’re created by skilled artists, who aren’t using a computer or a filter.

There are filters by Andromeda, the Andromeda Screens and Andromeda Woodcut filters, which can give you an effect that’s kinda-sorta vaguely like the graphics in the Wall Street Journal. However, the effect is not the same; for a true woodcut effect, you need an artist.

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RSD99
Aug 6, 2004
posted:
"…The Wall Street Journal does not use software to make those graphics. They’re created by skilled artists, who aren’t using a computer or a filter. …."

True … And … they’re justifiably proud of it.

Another plug-in that will approximate that effect is ‘India Ink’ by Flaming Pear … FWIW.

"Tacit" wrote in message
I’m sure this question has been asked
before but what software does the Wall
Street Journal use to produce its grainy
head shots graphics?

The Wall Street Journal does not use software to make those graphics. They’re created by skilled artists, who aren’t using a computer or a filter.
There are filters by Andromeda, the Andromeda Screens and Andromeda Woodcut filters, which can give you an effect that’s kinda-sorta vaguely like the graphics in the Wall Street Journal. However, the effect is not the same; for a true woodcut effect, you need an artist.

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Hecate
Aug 7, 2004
On 06 Aug 2004 15:54:20 GMT, (Tacit) wrote:

I’m sure this question has been asked
before but what software does the Wall
Street Journal use to produce its grainy
head shots graphics?

The Wall Street Journal does not use software to make those graphics. They’re created by skilled artists, who aren’t using a computer or a filter.
Actually, there is one piece of software that can do it – Painter.

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RSD99
Aug 7, 2004
"Hecate" posted:
"…
Actually, there is one piece of software that can do it – Painter. …."

HeHeHeHeHe …

Actually … PhotoShop could probably also be used to *paint* the images … but either would require actual artistic talent to do the job. I think the OP was really looking for an El Cheapo – Quick-Fix **FILTER** to do the job for him (or her).

HeHeHeHeHe …

"Hecate" wrote in message
On 06 Aug 2004 15:54:20 GMT, (Tacit) wrote:

I’m sure this question has been asked
before but what software does the Wall
Street Journal use to produce its grainy
head shots graphics?

The Wall Street Journal does not use software to make those graphics. They’re created by skilled artists, who aren’t using a computer or a filter.
Actually, there is one piece of software that can do it – Painter.
—

Hecate – The Real One

veni, vidi, reliqui
UJ
Uncle Joe
Aug 8, 2004
What’s wrong with wanting an el cheapo aid to produce

quality woodcut images? Why pay through the nose for

such a filter?

One of the respondents mentioned "India Ink." That

reminded me that I have India Ink installed. Hadn’t

used it in months and had forgotten about it being

in my inventory. Test it; it’s not up to Wall Street

standards.

I don’t understand why a Photoshop filter couldn’t

be created to simulate the woodcut images.

HeHeHeHeHeHe

"RSD99" wrote in message
"Hecate" posted:
"…
Actually, there is one piece of software that can do it – Painter. …"

HeHeHeHeHe …

Actually … PhotoShop could probably also be used to *paint* the
images … but either
would require actual artistic talent to do the job. I think the OP
was really looking for
an El Cheapo – Quick-Fix **FILTER** to do the job for him (or her).
HeHeHeHeHe …

"Hecate" wrote in message
On 06 Aug 2004 15:54:20 GMT, (Tacit) wrote:

I’m sure this question has been asked
before but what software does the Wall
Street Journal use to produce its grainy
head shots graphics?

The Wall Street Journal does not use software to make those
graphics. They’re
created by skilled artists, who aren’t using a computer or a
filter.
Actually, there is one piece of software that can do it – Painter.
—

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veni, vidi, reliqui

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tacitr
Aug 8, 2004
I don’t understand why a Photoshop filter couldn’t
be created to simulate the woodcut images.

Such a program would actually have to be intelligent; it would have to understand what the image is a picture *of*.

Look at an issue of the Wall Street Journal. The artists creating the woodcut illustrations will do things like create the lines in such a way as to suggest 3D shapes, by curving the lines to follow the contours of an image in three dimensions. A computer program is working form a 2D image; we can look at a 2D picture and intuit what the 3D shapes are, becasuse we’ve seen these shapes in three dimensions. A computer hasn’t.

A computer sees an image as nothing but a long series of numbers. It can’t recognize objects and shapes very well, and it can’t project an undrstanding of a 3D form onto a 2D image the way your brain can.

I suspect that producing top-quality woodcuts is probably what computer scientists call an "AI-complete" problem–that is, a problem that can’t be solved by a computer unless that computer is actually intelligent the way a human being is intelligent.

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