Jerry....

It is possible to do it in PS utilizing the powerful selection tools.... for instance lets choose a tone with the color picker under "Color Range", feather the selection and maybe expand or shrink that selection. Apply say "Sprayed strokes" and fade that to say 50% with mode "Soft Light".
Now go back and do it all again on a different selection etc etc etc. Maybe even at times rotating the image between filter applications....All this could be "actionized" but oh what a pain to do and on a high res image could take an eon or two....
So I just make the base image/layers and if you can wiggle a mouse or drag a pen around in a haphazard fashion then you will end up with something like the train. Thats the theory anyway :-)

MikeF

Gerald Trapp wrote:
> Looking at the train, the detail that amazes me compared to the
> beta is that the directionality of the pencil lines changes across
> the image and is "correct" for a pespective sketch. To date, I've
> not seen any effect in PS that was "smart" enough to do this (maybe
> I've jsut not looked hard enough?). Thus my question: Is the
> train the result of just one run of an action? If so, I'm beyond
> impressed, Mike!
>
> Jerry
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