It's really just one change in one of the steps that makes all the difference. If you've already read through the previous Portrait To Color Pencil Sketch tutorial, you'll find that many of the steps here are the same. So in this tutorial, we'll learn a different way to convert a photo to a sketch, one that's usually better suited for these other types of images since it often does an amazing job of bringing out fine details. Yet for other types of images (landscape or nature photos, buildings and architecture, still lifes, or really any image that doesn't focus on people), you'll often want the sketch to include those tiny details the previous method would ignore. Lisa Hanard is a Photo Guide with Arizona Highways PhotoScapes.In a previous Photoshop tutorial, we learned how to convert a photo into a color pencil sketch using a method that works especially well with portraits, since it tends to leave out small, unwanted details like wrinkles and other skin blemishes while focusing more on the main features we want to see, like the person's eyes, lips and hair. Then paint away any unwanted blemishes or unwanted areas. Invert the foreground and background colors of your brush by clicking here. Select a small brush with opacity changed back to 100%. In order to clean up stray or unwanted items in your image you can make a composite snapshot by holding CMD SHIFT OPT E – or CTRL ALT SHIFT E. If you go too far and want to go back a step or 2 hold down Command Z for Mac and CTRL Z for PC to undo your last action/s. Be careful not to brush too much or your image will stop looking like a sketch. You can experiment with the opacity levels depending on your image. Open a soft brush – Set your hardness to zero and your opacity to 10%. Click on the Layer 1 layer to highlight it. If you have areas that are too washed out and want more detail back, follow these steps. Select Levels – Slide the black slider to the right to darken it to your desired look.įrom here you are finished, but there are a couple additional things you can do if you have areas that are too light or things you wish to brush away. Slide radius until it looks like a good sketch. With IMAGE-1 still highlighted in the layers panel – Go to Filter – Blur – and select Gaussian Blur. Hold down CMD I (Or CTRL I for PC) to invert. In the Layers panel – highlight Layer 1 and change the Blend Mode to Color Dodge Your image will now be a black and white photo. Select hue/saturation and move the saturation slider to decrease it to MINUS -100 % Your original photo layer will say Background and the duplicated layer will say Layer 1 Create a new adjustment layer With it highlighted hold down CMD J (for Mac) or CTRL J (for PC) to duplicate the layer. In the Layers panel, highlight your original photo layer by clicking on it. Previous versions of Photoshop should let you perform the same tasks though certain tools may be in a slightly different spot than shown here. I am using the latest Creative Cloud version. The first step is to open your selected photo in Photoshop. Photos that have a decent amount of contrast are also good ones to work with. In general, photos without a cluttered looking background work the best. The first step is to select the photo you wish to work with. These can make nice personalized gifts for friends and family. You can quickly turn some of your favorite photos into hand-drawn looking sketches in Adobe Photoshop. With a little more time on our hands now is a perfect time to go through some of our old photos and have some fun with them.
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