Pencil Sketch Techniques

[Man1c M0g]

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[gingerbloke]

Cool and very handy guide to turning photos into drawings. Nice to have four options to play around with. I found a slightly different way of doing it and it was by mixing two tutorials from BioRUST together. I used the 'INVERTED BLUR' method first (quick and gets good results) and then I used the methods described in CLEANING SCANNED LINE ART (http://www.biorust.com/tutorials/detail/199/en/) to refine the image further.
The end result was superb.
Another superb tutorial!!

[anderkober]

this would certainly add more fun to transforming photos to line art. and get my friends' oooh's and ahhhh's again. if only they knew i'm just followint tutorials left and right. tnx for these techniques.

this cool, but i still can't apply these methode on dark photo, on this case i use default sketch filter from photoshop

[Darren83]

Hi guys,
This is cool, man. But do you guys have any idea what filter in photoshop or technique this website using Sketch My Photo - Free instant photo to pencil sketch conversion ?
It can convert photo to sketch so fast. I really wonder why? It is good if you all can introduce a few free software to me which i can install it locally for batch conversion.

[Tamlin]

Looks like they might be using something like Redfield's Sketch Master or Alien Skin's Snap Art (although the conversions look a little "blocky" in the examples on that site). Neither of these filters are free, but I think you can download demo versions:

Photo to Sketch Plug-in: Sketch Master, Photo Art Software

Snap Art

[Julierichman]

Originally Posted by gingerbloke

Cool and very handy guide to turning photos into drawings. Nice to have four options to play around with. I found a slightly different way of doing it and it was by mixing two tutorials from BioRUST together. I used the 'INVERTED BLUR' method first (quick and gets good results) and then I used the methods described in CLEANING SCANNED LINE ART (BioRUST.com :: Tutorials >> Cleaning Scanned Lineart) to refine the image further.
The end result was superb.
Another superb tutorial!!

I just joined and this is exactly what I had been looking for. Thanks for pointing me in this direction and for the easy to follow instructions.

[suemack]

Worked very well, easy to follow instructions. Thanks a lot!!

[nickcordano]

Originally Posted by zadhie

this cool, but i still can't apply these methode on dark photo, on this case i use default sketch filter from photoshop

i have been looking for this tutorial. thanks alot

[angelkissed]

I love the third technique, I have been able to take pictures that I thought were lost hope and add the technique to them and they look wonderful. So thank you so much for this.

[Mustika]

the step to make picture into pencil sketch, I can do but when the step to color it I can't get that result. I don't know why? I have followed the step by step but I can't get result like yours.

[zapphnath]

Originally Posted by Mustika

the step to make picture into pencil sketch, I can do but when the step to color it I can't get that result. I don't know why? I have followed the step by step but I can't get result like yours.

Are you sure you're setting the Blending Mode correctly?
Also, when trying the method described in Fig. 06, the color only affects gray pixels. Black and white pixels are not affected. You could use Levels on the Drawing layer, adjusting the white point on the bottom slider to get rid of the absolute white pixels, making them light gray. This would allow the color layer to affect more of the image.