Engraving

Engraving draws every picture the way a banknote is engraved: one family of fine parallel lines, each line bent by the picture's tone and as wide as the picture is bright. The lines swell around bright forms, the way an engraver's tool follows them.

How it works

A waiting picture is a faint grey hatch of hairlines. When it becomes the active one, a soft wave crosses it: behind the wave the lines thicken and take the picture's colour until they meet and the picture is whole. Leaving thins them back. In Turn mode the cursor turns the angle of the hatching under it, like light catching the cut lines of a printing plate.

Settings

• Lines: how many lines run across the picture. Many fine lines give a banknote look, a few bold ones a woodcut.
• Angle: the angle of the hatching, in degrees.
• Bend: how much the picture's tone bends the lines.
• Hairline: how thin a waiting picture's lines are.
• Turn: how far the cursor turns the hatching.
• Change time, Wave and Slant: the speed, softness and angle of the change wave.
• Layout, Dim and Depth: where the pictures sit and how the waiting ones fade.

Use it for

Luxury and finance brands, heritage collections, portraits and editorial features with a printed feel. A single picture in the same style is the Engraving image; for flowing lines instead of straight hatching, see Flow Lines.