Converting a noisy/grainy image to a "sketch"

I took a 35 film image from one of my family to attempt to salvage what I could from it. The image is from a picture where the flash did not fire, and it is at least 6 stops underexposed! Casually looking at the film strip, it looks like a blank frame.

The "drugstore" print amazingly showed some vague details in a print which was pretty bad. I scanned the neg, and played for a while in Photoshop 7, as the shot was a very good frame of 2 people, had it been properly exposed. I did manage to do much better than the "drugstore" print, but the image is very noisy and grainy.

I was wondering if I could get something more usable if I converted to a B/W image, and then possibly converted that to a sketch/drawing.

Can anyone point me to a tutorial which covers making a "pencil sketch" from a photo image?

Ron Hirsch

A search on any search engine will point you to such tutorials, as will a similar search through Adobe threads. It is a subject that comes up regularly.

try looking at the channels to see if any are salvagable. then gaus blurring the damaged may help if it's only one bad channel. or channel mixer & bluring might also help...

Ron,

Have you explored here?

<http://www.retouchpro.com/>

-- Burton --