- Open two crosshatch files. At this point, we have something
that vaguely resembles a line drawing traced in vellum over a
photograph. The effect is okay, but to my eyes, it still looks too
much like Photoshop art. So we’re going to bring in a cross-
hatching pattern that sells the effect as a mechanical engraving.
The truly amazing stuff starts now.
To form the crosshatch effect, you need to use a couple
of repeating diagonal line patterns. I created two sim-
ple images (magnified to 800 percent in Figure 4-48)
with the pencil tool. Navigate to the Lesson 04 folder inside
Lesson Files-PsCS5 1on1, and open the two files: Thick-lines.gif
and Thin-lines.gif. Each image is a tessellating tile, meaning it
repeats seamlessly when expressed as a pattern. Note that the
angle of one pattern is a flipped version of the other.
Figure 4-48.Figure 4-49.
- Define the tiles as patterns. To define each tile as a pattern,
choose Edit→Define Pattern and then click OK in the Pattern
Name dialog box. Then repeat for the other file. - Add a pattern fill layer. Return to the layered photograph
file and make sure the Solid Black layer is active in the Layers
panel. Then Alt-click (Option-click) the icon at the bottom
of the Layers panel and choose Pattern. Name your layer “Thin
Lines” and click OK. In the Pattern Fill dialog box that appears
next, click the downward arrow next to the pattern thumbnail
and choose the Thin Lines pattern, as shown in Figure 4-49.
122 Lesson 4: Retouch, Heal, and Enhance