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The shabby chic site "romantic feel" (nice one Tom M) effect looks as though they used more negative space than the actual image. Looks like some soft bevel/emboss effects mixed with some subtle drop shadow effects. It also appears that the opacity and/or fill was dropped considerably to show the effect more than the actual image. It gives the illusion that it is more of an etched/imprinted image more than rendered by pen and ink. Think about it like this...if you had a metal stamp and you hammered it into paper, what would it look like? The impression left by the stamp would be all that could be seen. Visibility would be inherent to the contrast of light to dark given the depth of the impression and the angle of light cast onto it. In other words, the shadows and negative space make up the image giving it a soft, subtle feel.


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