
Photoshop Elements 3 Down & Dirty Tricks270
Instant Woodcut Effect
This is a quick effect that allows you to instantly transform a color RGB image into that drawn woodcut effect that’s popping up
everywhere. We see this effect on the Web quite often where a woodcut object is used as an icon, but the effect works just as
well in other projects.
STEP ONE: Open the image that you
want to turn into a woodcut, then
double-click on the Background layer.
In the resulting dialog, just click OK
and your Background layer will become
a regular layer (named Layer 0 by
default). Make a copy of this layer by
dragging it to the Create a New Layer
icon at the ...