Woodcut of an owl

What's this? An upload by the-boggyb?

I was randomly inspired the other day to try my hand at photomanipulation once again and after a bit of playing I ended up with this. Then, having created it, I was wondering where to post it (while it will be going on my LiveJournal, it's more than the usual photodump that I post) and remembered that I had this account quietly gathering dust in the corner. So here it is - a ghostly woodcut of an owl.


This image started life as a photo of a wooden owl. I then vectorised it with an ancient copy of Corel OCR-TRACE, followed by rendering the result with a similarly ancient version of Corel PHOTO-PAINT.

If anyone's interested, the OCR-TRACE settings were:
Type: WoodCut
Node reduction: 36
Threshold: 179
Color WoodCut
Continuous cut
Tapered ends
Inverted
Symmetric
Angle of cut: 135 degrees
Sample width: 9 pixels