pencil sketches

langara

Hi Anyone know where i could get a sketch drawn from a photo. Was thinking of it as a pressie but cant find anywhere that does it......help! thx

digitalbeginner

If you have Photoshop you can do this quite easily yourself,

Dave

stewiegriffin08

if you aint got photoshop, ill gladly do it for you:)

unreggd

go to one of them Da Vinci photo-sketch booths and hold the pic up to the camera!

theres a real man in them machines, he makes mistakes like!!!!!

langara

Hi Thanks

I havent got photoshop.... wouldnt have a clue how to use it to be honest...im hopeless when it comes to computers really..... patethic i know but thats me!!!

Would love to take you up on your offer stewiegriffin08 if you wouldnt mind!

thanks

mikeanywhere

stewiegriffin08 wrote:

if you aint got photoshop, ill gladly do it for you:)

Good man!! :cool:

magicbastarder

the 'artistic' filters in photoshop are bloody awful.
there's no way in hell you'd end up with a picture nearly as good as a well executed pencil sketch.

digitalbeginner

I never said anything about using the fiters. There are other ways. This works for Photoshop CS2, should work with CS1 and CS3 also.

1 - DUPLICATE the background layer
2 - Press D to reset the default colours
3 - Click on IMAGE>ADJUSTMENTS>GRADIENT MAP
4 - Click OK in the Gradient Map dialog box
5 - Click FILTER>BLUR>SMART BLUR
6 - Type 35 in the RADIUS field & 35 in the THRESHOLD field
7 - Click the QUALITY pop-up & select HIGH
8 - Click the MODE pop-up & select EDGE ONLY
9 - Click OK
10 - Go to IMAGE>ADJUSTMENTS>INVERT



Dave

BTW If anyone is interested I'll put up the tutorial in PDF form with all the screen grabs

phog

digitalbeginner wrote:

I never said anything about using the fiters. There are other ways. This works for Photoshop CS2, should work with CS1 and CS3 also.

1 - DUPLICATE the background layer
2 - Press D to reset the default colours
3 - Click on IMAGE>ADJUSTMENTS>GRADIENT MAP
4 - Click OK in the Gradient Map dialog box
5 - Click FILTER>BLUR>SMART BLUR
6 - Type 35 in the RADIUS field & 35 in the THRESHOLD field
7 - Click the QUALITY pop-up & select HIGH
8 - Click the MODE pop-up & select EDGE ONLY
9 - Click OK
10 - Go to IMAGE>ADJUSTMENTS>INVERT



Dave

BTW If anyone is interested I'll put up the tutorial in PDF form with all the screen grabs

Dave, do please if you get a chance.

Thanks,
Phog

digitalbeginner

Okey dokey. Click on this link and and you'll see the PDF link at the top of the page.

It's a 2 pager, saved as a low res Adobe Acrobat PDF that comes from my notes for the Beginners Photoshop Course we run. Feel free to share it with whoever you think might like it,

Dave