Anyone know how to take a portrait of your face and make it look like it was part of a US Bill?
So it would look like Andrew Jackson (I think), on that Bill? Like would there be a filter for it?

Do a search on Guilloche. Many ways to do it, but I've not come up with a free way to do so. I paid for more then a few filters that help. There is one filter that comes extremly close (FotoSketcher with Pen & Ink preset), but it's not quite there. I also like use Flaming Pear's India Ink, Amphisoft's Xylograph (there is a free version of Xylograph, but very limited), and PostworkShop Etching. A blend of these various plugins/programs can get you quite close.

So could I post up the image and could you run the filters that cost money on it? From my understanding of your post you have them?

Also I don't have the pic yet, it is of a Friend and he is working on getting it...

Here's Lena Guilloched. Did blend in a little DCSpecial's Nylon to the mix. I can't promise any results. I don't do borders either. But the portrait itself will look sort of like this one.

If you're talking about making a photo look like it's engraved, There is a script that does it.

Which engrave script did you use to create that, Gms9810? Neither of mine performs in this way.

I used FX Foundry.

http://registry.gimp.org/node/13661

FX Foundry/Artistic/newsprint.

Funny, I downloaded that pack, and no newsprint. I have the Filters - Distorts - Newsprint, but it doesn't do what yours does.

Just checked my FX Foundry; actually it's called Pressprint. Cool stuff. Believe it's based on a tut I saw many years ago that uses the Newsprint filter.

Thanks Lyle.

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I actually have this filter named Guilloche in Filter Forge

COOL Rod.......

Yes, sorry, it IS Pressprint. Short term memory issues due to old age.

I've done these of my family but those were done by hand over many hours and aren't for public viewing.
Tried a quick knock-off using a couple of different overlay techniques, so as not to copy what others have done.
Not thrilled with the result but it is what it is for less than 15 minutes of work.

Thanks for the info Guys, I'll have to check out those Scripts

Filterforge has been on my wish list for a little while Rod, but I try not to spend any money at all for my hobby, but if I do so, try to keep it under $100 a year (of course, this year, I broke with rule with my CS5 upgrade; lol). I'm hopeing another Christmas discount will be offered for FF for maybe $100 for the version that I want to have (believe it's in the $200s now). I can wish can't I? lol

Wow that is a lot of money for just some Filters... How many are there?

For Filter Forge, the skies the limit since there are so many already, not to mention FF was designed to actually make creating custom filters child's play. Craig (one of my buddies at RetouchPRO) was one of the early pioneers of FF many years ago. He's, several times, tried to get me to acquire it and I almost did this past Christmas, but got PostworkShop Pro instead ($99 vs. $200; no brainer to me; lol). Still under my $100/year hobby budget; bought CS5 upgrade this past Feb. lol. I do Retouching for fun. No where near Pro quality, nor do I want to spend too much for it. Broke bloke I am too (won't go into details though I have in the past). Anyway, take care Willy.

Someone needs to develop a Linux equivalent to Filter Forge.