Wednesday, March 9, 2011

D1 Tutorial 3 Robinson

How to make a photo looked sketched.


Open your image in Ps. Double click the image layer to make it a normal layer.



Next desaturate the image by going to image: adjustments: desaturate


Now make a copy of the layer by dragging the 1st layer to the new layer option below.

now click on the layer copy and go to image: adjustments: invert.

Select color dodge from the blending options drop down menu.
next go to filter: other: minimum and adjust the image to how dark you want the lines to look.

Click on filter: blur: gaussin blur and adjust as necessary.

Flatten the image and now you have your final sketched image.

4 comments:

Amie said...

Some of you may already know how to do this. I didn't so I learned something new :)

Corey Dozier said...

Actually pretty cool and I know I can use this sometime...

Dinah said...

Wow! That's cool!

Pamela said...

That is really great. I like the way the sky turned out too. Could use this technique to get better sky on an old B&W photo you are fixing, not just to get the main subject.