Hello everybody, I'm currently trying to give an old, worn out print a new, clean frame. This is not professional restauration but just for fun and training.
Below you can see a sample of the frame:
In the beginning I was thinking about reusing the old frame and redrawing the individual lines to preserve the beautiful hand-drawn look, but it's not worth it. The print is very large, this sample is just about 1% of the whole frame. The time I can save on the frame I can put into the print itself, where it will show more.
So I decided to rebuild the frame with more automated methods, something I have little training with. One method would be to paint a single segment and then copy/paste them. But I was wondering if there were better methods. Is there, for example, a way to create a path in this ladder pattern so I could try to scratch it with various brushes to see which gives it the best texture? (My main concern with this method is that the many vertical bars would have to be drawn a bit thinner than the long horizontal bars, and I wouldn't know how to do that with only one path.) Or would it be better to whip out Illustrator from the get go? (Which I would first have to do some basic training with, sigh.)
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You can turn it into a brush.
I applied levels to get mostly black and white.
Make a selection, go to Edit, define brush
Set Angle Jitter Control to Direction, spread them out in the shape part
You can paint by hand or run the brush on a path - I just made a rectangle with rectangle tool - make sure in the options bar it's set to path, not shape.
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You can turn it into a brush.
I applied levels to get mostly black and white.
Make a selection, go to Edit, define brush
Set Angle Jitter Control to Direction, spread them out in the shape part
You can paint by hand or run the brush on a path - I just made a rectangle with rectangle tool - make sure in the options bar it's set to path, not shape.
If you want a rough hand drawn look, have a think about using a custom brush. The red object is the defined preset. Shape dynamics as shown, and scatter is set to 5%. Spacing is obviously set so each stamp abuts the previous one. There is always an issue setting Angle jitter to Direction, in that the first stamp tends to be at a random angle. I don't know of any fix for that other than using separate layers and erasing the errant stamp.
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