How to have lines overlapping the image?

[puppyworld]

I saw a lot of images that have lines overlapping the images that make them very cool. I was wondering if you guys know how to do this effect in Photoshop 7?

Thanks in advance!

[martinibuster]

Any time I see a cool effect on the web I right click it and download it. I then open it up in Photoshop and zoom in/zoom out and study it and try to replicate it... Makes for hours of fun.

I have to say that I'm unclear on what effect you are referring to. Is there somebody famous like Amazon or Crate and Barrel who are doing this?

[davis]

Okay, I think I know what your talking about... you want those black scanlines that make everything look like 10x better :)

Okay, go into photoshop... make a 1x3 pixle wide document... make sure the background is set to transparent...

Select 1 square out of the three (either top or bottom), and then fill it with black. Unselect everything, and 'Define Pattern' (EDIT >> DEFINE PATTERN)

You can close this now...

Now open whichever image you want, and then go into the Blending options, and do a pattern overlay... Look in the sample dropdown list, and select it... then just play with the opacity until you get it looking right :)

I _hope_ that makes sence :)

-Davis

[araenae]

Be careful to do this pattern stuff AFTER you finishing all the editing of the image, and AFTER deciding the final image size, that's because if you have rendered the pattern layer and later resize the whole image, you will lost the entire effect :( I almost always render the layer cause i can use for even more neat effects (such as making a gradient pattern OVER the lines effect).
PS there's a lot of cool stuff you could make with that technique, let your imagination fly... such as this example:
-create a new document 4x4 pixels
-draw a vertical line aligned to the left of the image (any color, you will edit this later)
-draw an horizontal line aligned to the top of the image (same color as above)
-select all the image and the EDIT> DEFINE PATTERN
**In a previous document make a new pattern layer with the pattern you've created**
-Right click the mask of the pattern layer in the layers palette, click on DISABLE LAYER MASK
-Right click the pattern layer in the same palette and click RASTERIZE LAYER
-Control click (macintosh: option click) the pattern layer so photoshop will select any content on that layer
-select the gradient tool and apply over the pattern layer
voila!, is really cool
<snip>
it have a lot of effects of that kind, and I must be honest, the original image were really ugly

[edited by: korkus2000 at 3:49 pm (utc) on May 27, 2003]
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