{"id":7014,"date":"2021-11-28T16:54:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T16:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7014"},"modified":"2021-11-28T16:54:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T16:54:36","slug":"scraperboard-etching-effect-trying-something-different-5from7photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7014","title":{"rendered":"Scraperboard \/ Etching effect – trying something different: #5from7photo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I occasionally come up with an idea that I wish to apply to my photos. The inspiration for this effect came from some ‘sketches’ in a book I was reading: Gavin Pretor Pinney ‘The Cloudspotter’s Guide’. The illustrator was Bill Sanderson and you can see some of the illustrations here: https:\/\/www.billsandersonart.com\/CloudSpottersGuide.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To do this (and I haven’t seen this effect in Photoshop) I wrote my own image manipulation program. Here are a few examples of the effect:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scraperboard effect in monochrome for Powis Castle Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Colour scraperboard effect for Powis Castle Gardens <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Below is a side-by-side slider to compare both images with each other<\/p>\n\n\n


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This next set includes a blend with the original image:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monochrome scraperboard effect showing Biddulph Grange Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Colour scraperboard effect showing Biddulph Grange Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This version is the monochrome scraperboard effect blended with the original image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Below are 2 comparison pairs using the above 3 images:<\/p>\n\n\n


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Even though I developed the tool I am still learning how to use it for the best effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I occasionally come up with an idea that I wish to apply to my photos. The inspiration for this effect came from some ‘sketches’ in a book I was reading: Gavin Pretor Pinney ‘The Cloudspotter’s Guide’. The illustrator was Bill Sanderson and you can see some of the illustrations here: https:\/\/www.billsandersonart.com\/CloudSpottersGuide.php To do this (and … Continue reading “Scraperboard \/ Etching effect – trying something different: #5from7photo”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,103,100,3,89,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5from7photo","category-before-after","category-photo-effects","category-photography","category-programming","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7014"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7026,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7014\/revisions\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}