: How to do a stroke raster effect I would like to do this effect. https://scriptographer.org/scripts/raster-scripts/stroke-raster/ Unfortunately the pug is no longer available or updated for today's

@Cugini998

How to do semimanually in Illustrator

This is not really all that hard. In fact, if you combine the techniques in:


Illustrator: how to reproduce line art and
How was this mosaic graphic of Jimi Hendrix created?


you get a workflow that takes a bout a few minutes to do by hand. Tip you may want to use divide below. Unfortunately I'm in a bit of hurry so you need to think this out on your own for the time being.

How to determine the line thickness. Well you could calculate it First linearize your gamma than just calculate that line thickness is equal to gap*(1 - intensity) But I'm sure once you have a color swatch strip above its quick and dirty to guesstimate the dot gain, by eye.

There is also other plugin vendors that have this tool. And yes Photoshop has a tool for this. You could vectorize it in illustrator.

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@RJPawlick971

As you mentioned in the comments you have Photoshop, you can do it pretty quickly by following this process.


Open your image in Photoshop
Image > Mode > Greyscale






Image > Mode > Bitmap





Method Use: Halftone Screen





Select Line and then set your frequency to a low number (the bigger
the image, the lower it will need to be, just use a little trial and
error to you find whats right for you). You can also adjust the
angle here too.




...and you are done!



if you want to increase the dark & light contrast, add a Levels Adjustment layer after step 2 and play with the black & white levels. The darker the image, the thicker the black lines will be. Sometimes you may want to go a lot darker than you would in a normal image, experiment with that and then apply the halftone effect and you should get what you are looking for.

Remember to merge the levels to the image before applying the halftone.

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