Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

I saw this technique linked on MeFi and quickly wrote a version of the action he described (although it has some fairly obvious flaws in it). To be honest it's easier to write it yourself than for me to provide a copy of it because even with the action you've got to “get” it to use it right.

Here's the first one I did — very sloppy, but you get the idea — this is a picture of Efix that I'd just processed a normal photographic version of for one of the next BME updates. Anyway, it really is a cool technique with a lot of potential… I may have to write a better action for it and play with it for shirt work.

Note: If you do want to see how I did this, here's the current version of the action. You will have to do a lot of the work manually still (like choosing your rotation angles, and applying any distortion to the lines). Note that the first time you run it, a few errors will be generated because of missing layers. Ignore them, but when it's done running the first time, press undo three or four times (until the 'Layer 1' reappears). Anyway: etchit.atn (F9 activated).