How to Make a Photo Suitable for Faxing - Photo to B&W Dot Pattern

A reader wrote to me looking for software that he could use to convert photos into a black & white image suitable for faxing, similar to the stipple drawings, or hedcuts, used in The Wall Street Journal. This tutorial explains how I used Photoshop to achieve the black and white version of the head shot shown here. It's not as striking or detailed as the hand-drawn hedcuts used in the Wall Street Journal, but it should be better suited for a fax, compared to the original color photo.

Note that I didn't actually try faxing this image. You may need to experiment with different image sizes and print resolutions to find the best results for faxing.