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Would you like to draw a pencil sketch? You are not good at drawing? Well, it doesnĄ¯t matter, follow me, please.

Step 1: Open your image in Photoshop, Choose Image->Adjustment->Desaturate (or Ctrl+Shift+U by default) to make the photo to black-and-white.

Step 2: Click Layer-> Duplicate Layer, duplicate the background as background copy.

Step 3: Use Image->Adjustment->Invert (or Ctrl+I by default), then the image will look like a negative.

Step 4: From the layer palette, set the blending options as Color Bodge.

Step 5: Choose Filter->Blur->Guassian Blur, set the radius 4 pixels.

Step 6: DonĄ¯t forget to merge the layer at last. So, everything is done!



Sorry, i would like to post the final work here, but I'm not allowed.
If you wish, please visit www3.photo-collage-software.com/article/ps-pencilsketch.html

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Thanks :-D

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Fun! I like that you broke down the steps and showed them --- I'm such a visual learner.

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I tried that too, when you first put it on the forum....it is cool, and so easy!

Re did a portrait of my 19 yr. old daughter, and she thought she looked scary! It was really cool I thought... Melodie

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Cool!

Being an Elements novice I have a question though...

Couldn't you essentially do the same kind of thing by following the steps up to desaturating then choosing the Colored Pencil filter (which would essentially be in b&w now).

Example is in my Gallery... This was originally a color snapshot but I removed the color and then used the Colored Pencil filter... ???

/Kim

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I've tried a few software doing the jobs. Is those software like akvis using the step by step above also? There's even a web based photo to sketch conversion at www.sketchcmyphoto.com

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look here for more examples
www.sketchmyphoto.com/sample.jsp

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Thanks,

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