Drawings

27-12-2006 50783 views

Transform a photo into a hand-drawn artwork. Perfect for when you need to fake some homework or just when you need a nice effect on your photo :D

Difficulty: Veteran 5 comments | Posted in Photomanipulations

Turn a photo into a drawing

Learn how to turn photo's into drawings...

  • Step 1 Open up a photo of a random person. I chose the beatutifull Kate Beckinsale that I picked after seeing the (SUPER) movie Click...

    Turn a photo into a drawing

  • Step 2 Duplicate the original layer by pressing CTRL+J. Then desaturate the image by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+U;

    Turn a photo into a drawing

  • Step 3 The press CTRL+J once more to duplicate this layer as well. Then press CTRL+I to invert the colors;

    Turn a photo into a drawing

  • Step 4 Set the blending-mode to Color Dodge. But oh... it's all white. Not to worry, that's normal. Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and choose a setting that will get you a result like mine below;

    Turn a photo into a drawing

  • Step 5 Now duplicate the original photo again (layer 1) and press CTRL+SHIFT+U again;

    Turn a photo into a drawing

  • Step 6 Go to Filter>Noise>Add Noise and add some minor noise;

    Turn a photo into a drawing

  • Step 7 Next, go to Filter>Brush Strokes>Angled Strokes and set the top slider to the right. The rest of the settings depend on the brightness of your image;

    Turn a photo into a drawing

  • Step 8 Place this layer under the previously done work and set the top works to Multiply!

    Turn a photo into a drawing



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MickM

September 9th, 2009

Yeah I should add some more end-results, because no drawing looks the same...

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Vince

August 27th, 2009

There's one step that you could add to make this whole image more 'pencil' like, is by adding the 'minimum' filter with a samll value after changing the duplicated player blending.

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didott

April 9th, 2009

good job

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Anton

November 2th, 2008

Doest look very natural, though.

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psynitox

September 1th, 2008

excelent job!!

i like it very much ^^


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