Photoshop / wall street journal pointed image effect

can you post a link or an image?

While you might be able to make something similar with photoshop filters, those portraits are all hand drawn ... not converted from pictures....

If you want to try to achieve something similar ... I would start by converting the image to black and white, and then maybe the 'Sketch' or 'Grain' filter

-Mike

PS... Examples: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=wall%20street%20journal%20portrait&btnG=Google+Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Thanks Arglbat, I was wondering what could be so special about pictures in the Wall Street Journal (which I don't have access to).

This is a perennial question in PS boards and I've never seen a definitive answer. Adobe Studio Exchange has some sketch filters available free. Also Andromeda has some etch type filters that will get you headed in the right direction. Bottom line, at lot of folks have tried to figure out how theuy do it, but I've never seen a successful effort.
Joe

If you want to see how the Wall Street Journal does it, go here: http://www.nolinovak.com/index2.html

DBrugge:
What a great pearl of information. And you are right, there is no software to replicate that technique. If there were, you would probably have to mortgage your house and cars to buy it. So NN is safe.
Thanks for the info,
I have been wondering how that was done for years, thinking that it was digital. What silly fools we mortals are.
Cheers,
Joe