pencil sketch

[photolove]

Would you like to draw a pencil sketch? You are not good at drawing? Well, it doesn’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: Don’t forget to merge the layer at last. So, everything is done!

[digitalnuts]

Thank you for a great step by step tutorial please put in more its a good way for anyone learning photoshop.May

[gsansoucie]

Nice.

Thanks, by the way, I am running PSE 3.0 and the hot keys worked fine (the menu items are in different places though).

-=Glen=-

[darren83]

I think you can save all those work by using http://www.sketchmyphoto.com
they do it all automatically for u. =)