Turniing a picture into a coloring book type pic

Hi all. Is there a way to turn a normal photo into a coloring book type line drawing? Thanks.

Riggs wrote:

Hi all. Is there a way to turn a normal photo into a coloring book type line drawing? Thanks.

Sure! Whip out that pencil and get crackin'

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Riggs wrote:

Hi all. Is there a way to turn a normal photo into a coloring book type line drawing? Thanks.

Sure! Whip out that pencil and get crackin'

Yeah, but Filter>Blur>Smart Blur with Mode set to Edge Only might help to get started. Use a high radius and threshold.

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Hi all. Is there a way to turn a normal photo into a coloring book type line drawing? Thanks.

If you do a lot of it, then Adobe Streamline is a great start. (I've finally reconciled myself to that tool. :) )

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Hi all. Is there a way to turn a normal photo into a coloring book type line drawing? Thanks.

If you do a lot of it, then Adobe Streamline is a great start. (I've finally reconciled myself to that tool. :) )

Thanks, I'll have a look at that.

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Riggs wrote:

Hi all. Is there a way to turn a normal photo into a coloring book type line drawing? Thanks.

Sure! Whip out that pencil and get crackin'

Yeah, but Filter>Blur>Smart Blur with Mode set to Edge Only might help to get started. Use a high radius and threshold.

Thanks for the tip, with some fine tuning that might just do the trick.

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Hi all. Is there a way to turn a normal photo into a coloring book

type

line drawing? Thanks.

If you do a lot of it, then Adobe Streamline is a great start. (I've finally reconciled myself to that tool. :) )

Thanks, I'll have a look at that.

Wait. Very sorry, but I posted that late. Streamline is quite hard to use and not very good for what you want considering the terms of your needs. You will spend an inordinate of time tuning the scan, then post-manipulation of vector graphics. Warren Sarle's suggestion and the others are, IMHO, better starting places.

A trial version of Streamline should still be at www.adobe.com, should you wish to try it for yourself. (I do use it, but am not ready to tutor someone yet.)

Use illustrator and trace it.

Stuart

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In article , Riggs
wrote:

Hi all. Is there a way to turn a normal photo into a coloring book

type

line drawing? Thanks.

If you do a lot of it, then Adobe Streamline is a great start. (I've finally reconciled myself to that tool. :) )

Thanks, I'll have a look at that.

Wait. Very sorry, but I posted that late. Streamline is quite hard to use and not very good for what you want considering the terms of your needs. You will spend an inordinate of time tuning the scan, then post-manipulation of vector graphics. Warren Sarle's suggestion and the others are, IMHO, better starting places.

A trial version of Streamline should still be at www.adobe.com, should you wish to try it for yourself. (I do use it, but am not ready to tutor someone yet.)

Riggs wrote:

Hi all. Is there a way to turn a normal photo into a coloring book type line drawing? Thanks.

One fast way: Use Artistic>Poster Edges then select the outline that is produced with Magic Wand and Contiguous unchecked. Inverse and delete the color. You might also run Cutout first to simplify the color areas.

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Here is a great tutorial on how to use the High Pass Filter. It does a great job of outlining an image.
http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/linedraw/linedraw.htm

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Hi all. Is there a way to turn a normal photo into a coloring book type line drawing? Thanks.