26 June 2008 - 16:58: Jerry Mills (Husker) replied...
For the portrait I prepped it in Photoshop and ran a plugin called "Cutline" for Andromeda software. http://www.andromeda.com/main/cutline.php After I got the look I wanted I use the place command to place it in Illustrator and then did a custom live trace on it with "ignore white" turned on. After that I turned it into a live paint object and selected a green color swatch to match the rest of the piece. Live trace smooths out the vectors and makes it look even more natural than the Photoshop engraved version. You have to play with the settings a bit but its really great for creating engraved effects in Illustrator.

26 June 2008 - 19:30: itai (itailu) replied...
WOW!!! you are amazing, what a wonderful detailed and clear explanation. Again the work you do is wonderful. Thanks for the explanation. Cheers itai.

27 June 2008 - 00:00: Jerry Mills (Husker) replied...
You just made my day. Thanks.

27 June 2008 - 01:42: itai (itailu) replied...
Happy to make your day ;-) if you feel like it, we can correspond via email. I'm a bit lacking on creative friends these days cheers itai itailu@gmail.com

28 June 2008 - 22:56: Jerry Mills (Husker) replied...
Sure thing. You can contact me any time here, in the IW forums or at husker@vectorgeek.com.