[Alt-photo] Re: Sort-of-Alt fun project

[Matti Koskinen]

On 12/31/2013 09:43 PM, Henry Rattle wrote:
> Forgive me for an only vaguely-Alt posting, but I had a lot of fun with this
> over the holiday:
>
> Take a digital photo (e.g. an iPhone photo of the Rialto Bridge in Venice)
>
> Process the photo with an iPad app called "Etchings" which very convincingly
> renders your image as an engraving
>
> Make a positive transparency at the required size
>
> Expose a photopolymer plate under the transparency (1 minute, and works fine
> with a diffused UV source if you are careful with contact). Wash out plate.
>
> Ink up, wipe plate and print onto a nice printmaking paper
>
> Voila - a 21st-century engraving to give as a present to the folks we were
> on holiday with in Venice.
>
> As I say, a bit marginal as Alt - but at least you end up with a real
> ink-on-paper image, and a lot of fun!
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> Henry
>
Thanks Henry,

I've used PS-action (even paid 4$I) to do same kind of things. Now I've 
tried to learn Python and Inkscape to do the engravings on a hacked two 
scanners and laser

best regards

-m