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Originally Posted by Nancy
wow that must've taken you hours to make!
neat design but why does it look so pixelated?  |
Well, a little bit of the graininess is deliberate. I decided to just do a casual cleanup of artifacts from the scan (eraser marks, coffee stains, etc.) to enhance the idea of the picture being hand-done and maybe a little aged. That explains the white bits.
Then I ran a filter to sharpen things, which reduced the pixellated effect. Throw a canvas filter on to make it look like it was done on a canvas. Kinda neat.
For my final trick, I shrank the image and reduced the color count so that it would fit within the upload limits for the forum, kinda making all the previous work look like I had taken a nice picture and drooled all over it for an hour and a half ;-)