How To Make An Image In Photoshop Look Like A Drawing

Hi Buffet Coiffure, here is a brand new tut for you lot all. This is an erstwhile favorite of mine. How to turn a photograph into a pencil sketch in photoshop. This is actually really easy to exercise and it gets quite practiced results too. As usual, I'll provide a few creative bound off points at the finish for your own experimentation.

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Start with a Photo that has some decent edge detail, here 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 past dragging into the new layer icon, or printing Ctrl/Cmd+J

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Invert the layer Cmd/Ctrl+I

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Modify to Linear Contrivance blend fashion and you should see a perfectly white image (Use Color Dodge for sharper edges)

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Filter>Blur>Gaussian Mistiness
(You could actually use any filter, every bit long equally it creates a difference between the 2 layers)

As you adjust the blur you will become a different result.

Here are some variations using Colour Dodge, you volition detect that Linear Contrivance produces a softer issue that Color Dodge. Endeavour dissimilar blending Modes for different results.

Hither is the issue on a different paradigm

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Once yous have your perfect pencil sketch, why not endeavour adding some color for a nice variation.

In this commencement case, I added a solid color Make full aligning layer. Change the blend mode to color, so simply the color shows through. Adjust the opacity to conform your tastes.

Color Dodge result

As well attempt running a gradient through a new blank layer at the acme and alter that to color alloy manner.

Equally you can see, the issue itself is quite simple and there are a number of variations that you can endeavor to get very different looking results. Add together a annotate at let me know how you are using this effect.

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See you side by side week with another new tutorial!

Colin

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