Pencil Effects

[gyrm]

I've tried a couple different ways of producing a pencil-image from a photo, and these are the results:
Check out both, I like the effect the first gives


Sketching in 4 steps
1. Take your image, the higher quality the better.
http://wallpaper.net.au/wallpaper/automotive/Aston%20Martin%20Vanquish%201%20-%20800x600.jpg

2. Make it B/W
a ) Ctrl+U and slide saturation to "0"
or b ) Shift+Ctrl+U to remove color (I did this in elements, and can't rememver if that's the same for other versions of PS)
http://keith.host-net.org/tute/bw.jpg

3. Duplicate the layer and invert colors (Ctrl+I)
Then set that layer's blending mode to "Color Dodge"

Your image should be nearly white:
http://keith.host-net.org/tute/white.jpg

4. Apply a "Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur" to the "color dodge" layer. I used 3 px but it can be from 1-10 depending on how you want your image to look. Presto! That's it!

http://keith.host-net.org/tute/complete.jpg


The second method

This one's even easeier. Take your image and apply a "Photocopy" Filter (Filter>Sketch>Photocopy)
For my image, I used Detail=1 Darkness=25, it may be different on yours.
http://keith.host-net.org/tute/photocopy.jpg

Enjoy! :D

[brasher]

hehe, i posted the exect same thing about 6 months ago.

But its still a cool effect

[gyrm]

Originally posted by brasher@Nov 23 2004, 11:25 PM
hehe, i posted the exect same thing about 6 months ago.

But its still a cool effect
nice! Yeah as you can see I'm new. Sorry everyone for the dupe, i guess this is for the other noobs then:D

[suzq044]

you do realise that it looks almost just like emboss or rubber stamp.... right? lol

[hawk_196]

something about that picture looks chopped to me... for a couple of reasons.

1. Never thought I've seen Aston Martin use that effect before, only porsche.
2. Car looks too in-focus... wierd
3. Reflections on car aren't green. Looks like a studio pic.


Just looks like someone dropped that car into the photo for some reason.

Also the wheels have a really weird blur on them... but thats just random.

[suzq044]

actually the original was a mcLaren; and that blur effect was part of that picture; the aston looks off angle & the wheels were blurred to make it look like they were moving, if the shutter speed was right, you'd see the wheel-spin.. not blur ;) (the McLaren was a subject of "moving pictures" (those things u see at the mall where the lights move & therefore make the pic look like ITS moving)

[Prototype]

That's sweet, I gotta try that sometime.

[rickysals]

my favorite method is with a pencil.

tehe, cool