How To Make A Picture Into A Drawing In Photoshop

How-do-you-do CAFE Crew, here is a brand new tut for you all. This is an sometime favorite of mine. How to turn a photo into a pencil sketch in photoshop. This is really really like shooting fish in a barrel to practice and it gets quite good results too. Every bit usual, I'll provide a few creative jump off points at the cease for your ain experimentation.

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Start with a Photograph that has some decent edge detail, hither is one I got from Adobe Stock

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Covert the photo to grayscale (Ctrl+Shift+D / Cmd+Shift+D)

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Duplicate the layer by dragging into the new layer icon, or press Ctrl/Cmd+J

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Invert the layer Cmd/Ctrl+I

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Change to Linear Dodge blend way and you should see a perfectly white image (Apply Colour Dodge for sharper edges)

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Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur
(Y'all could actually apply any filter, every bit long as information technology creates a difference between the 2 layers)

As you accommodate the blur you volition get a different effect.

Here are some variations using Color Dodge, you will notice that Linear Dodge produces a softer result that Colour Dodge. Try different blending Modes for different results.

Here is the result on a different image

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Once you have your perfect pencil sketch, why non try adding some color for a squeamish variation.

In this beginning example, I added a solid color Make full adjustment layer. Change the blend way to color, so only the color shows through. Adjust the opacity to suit your tastes.

Color Contrivance result

Likewise try running a slope through a new blank layer at the meridian and change that to color blend mode.

As you tin can see, the effect itself is quite simple and there are a number of variations that you can effort to get very unlike looking results. Add a comment at allow me know how you are using this effect.

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Colin

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