Any way to look like a pen and ink drawing?

Looking for a way to turn a color scan of a painting to look like a pen/pencil and ink drawing like the machines in the mall do. Is there a plugin/filter that’ll have better results than the standard ones. I’m basically trying to turn the oil painting into a 2 color black on white without it looking ‘halftonish’ and retaining a lot of the image clarity. I used the palette knife filter and it still looks a bit ‘blobish’. I really like the effects of the machines at the mall. I guess I could take a print there…but if there is a filter or plugin I think the results would be better.
TIA!!!!!

"Oh jeez!" wrote in message

Looking for a way to turn a color scan of a painting to look like a pen/pencil and ink drawing like the machines in the mall do. Is there a plugin/filter that’ll have better results than the standard ones. I’m basically trying to turn the oil painting into a 2 color black on white without it looking ‘halftonish’ and retaining a lot of the image clarity. I used the palette knife filter and it still looks a bit ‘blobish’. I really like the effects of the machines at the mall. I guess I could take a print there…but if there is a filter or plugin I think the results would be better.
TIA!!!!!

Photo into drawing:

Shift + Ctrl +U

Then Ctrl + J

Then Ctrl + I

Now in your layers palette change mode to colour dodge then go to Filter Blur> gaussian blur.

Beachcomber wrote:

"Oh jeez!" wrote in message

Looking for a way to turn a color scan of a painting to look like a pen/pencil and ink drawing like the machines in the mall do. Is there a plugin/filter that’ll have better results than the standard ones. I’m basically trying to turn the oil painting into a 2 color black on white without it looking ‘halftonish’ and retaining a lot of the image clarity. I used the palette knife filter and it still looks a bit ‘blobish’. I really like the effects of the machines at the mall. I guess I could take a print there…but if there is a filter or plugin I think the results would be better.
TIA!!!!!

Photo into drawing:

Shift + Ctrl +U

Then Ctrl + J

Then Ctrl + I

That will give you a nice white canvas

Now in your layers palette change mode to colour dodge then go to Filter Blur> gaussian blur.

Why blur a white canvas?

Stephan

Beachcomber wrote:

"Oh jeez!" wrote in message

Looking for a way to turn a color scan of a painting to look like a pen/pencil and ink drawing like the machines in the mall do. Is there a plugin/filter that’ll have better results than the standard ones. I’m basically trying to turn the oil painting into a 2 color black on white without it looking ‘halftonish’ and retaining a lot of the image clarity. I used the palette knife filter and it still looks a bit ‘blobish’. I really like the effects of the machines at the mall. I guess I could take a print there…but if there is a filter or plugin I think the results would be better.
TIA!!!!!

Photo into drawing:

Shift + Ctrl +U

Then Ctrl + J

Then Ctrl + I

That will give you a nice white canvas

Now in your layers palette change mode to colour dodge then go to Filter Blur> gaussian blur.

Why blur a white canvas?

That film star glow:

Open head and shoulder portrait of your star to be.

Ctrl+J

Filter >Blur >Gaussian Blur. Try 5.0 pixels.

Lower the Opacity in the Layers Palette to 70%.

In the Layers palette change the blend mode to Screen.

This applies the glowing, blurred effect the film stars wish they really had.

Move the Opacity slider to lessen or increase the effect.

That film star glow:

Open head and shoulder portrait of your star to be.

Ctrl+J

Filter >Blur >Gaussian Blur. Try 5.0 pixels.

Lower the Opacity in the Layers Palette to 70%.

In the Layers palette change the blend mode to Screen.

This applies the glowing, blurred effect the film stars wish they really had.

Move the Opacity slider to lessen or increase the effect.

"Oh jeez!" wrote in message

Looking for a way to turn a color scan of a painting to look like a

Photo into drawing:

Shift + Ctrl +U

Then Ctrl + J

Then Ctrl + I

Now in your layers palette change mode to colour dodge then go to Filter Blur> gaussian blur.

"Stephan" wrote in message

Beachcomber wrote:

Photo into drawing:

Shift + Ctrl +U

Then Ctrl + J

Then Ctrl + I

That will give you a nice white canvas

Now in your layers palette change mode to colour dodge then go to Filter Blur> gaussian blur.

Why blur a white canvas?

Stephan

Stephan
Just do it, it bloody works, the amount of guassian blur will determine how dark you want the "pencil" lines to be. This is the best one I’ve seen for doing this effect, so a big thanks to Beachcomber. Any more handy tips.

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:23:41 GMT, Stephan wrote:

Beachcomber wrote:

"Oh jeez!" wrote in message

Looking for a way to turn a color scan of a painting to look like a pen/pencil and ink drawing like the machines in the mall do. Is there a plugin/filter that’ll have better results than the standard ones. I’m basically trying to turn the oil painting into a 2 color black on white without it looking ‘halftonish’ and retaining a lot of the image clarity. I used the palette knife filter and it still looks a bit ‘blobish’. I really like the effects of the machines at the mall. I guess I could take a print there…but if there is a filter or plugin I think the results would be better.
TIA!!!!!

Photo into drawing:

Shift + Ctrl +U

Then Ctrl + J

Then Ctrl + I

That will give you a nice white canvas

Now in your layers palette change mode to colour dodge then go to Filter Blur> gaussian blur.

Why blur a white canvas?

Hate to tell you this, but it works. Not as good as using Painter, but a bit better than the usual PS attempts.

That will give you a nice white canvas

then go to Filter Blur> gaussian blur
.

Why blur a white canvas?

Desaturate, layer via copy, Invert and set mode to Color Dodge gives me a pristine white canvas.
So what’s going on?

Stephan

That will give you a nice white canvas

Now in your layers palette change mode to colour dodge then go to Filter Blur> gaussian blur.

Why blur a white canvas?

Stephan

Stephan
Just do it, it bloody works, the amount of guassian blur will determine how dark you want the "pencil" lines to be. This is the best one I’ve seen for doing this effect, so a big thanks to Beachcomber. Any more handy tips.

No it does not.
When you set the layer mode to color dodge the canvas turns white!
Stephan

That will give you a nice white canvas

then go to Filter Blur> gaussian blur
.

Why blur a white canvas?

To finish and see the effect?

Desaturate, layer via copy, Invert and set mode to Color Dodge gives me a pristine white canvas.
So what’s going on?

You have to continue to Filter Blur> gaussian blur and move the slider to get the effect you prefer.

Hecate wrote:

Hate to tell you this, but it works. Not as good as using Painter, but a bit better than the usual PS attempts.

Desaturate, layer via copy, Invert and set mode to Color Dodge gives me a pristine white canvas.
So what’s going on?

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:44:56 GMT, Stephan wrote:

Hecate wrote:

Hate to tell you this, but it works. Not as good as using Painter, but a bit better than the usual PS attempts.

Desaturate, layer via copy, Invert and set mode to Color Dodge gives me a pristine white canvas.
So what’s going on?

What’s going on is you’re missing the blur step. Just try it 🙂
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Desaturate, layer via copy, Invert and set mode to Color Dodge gives me a pristine white canvas.
So what’s going on?

What’s going on is you’re missing the blur step. Just try it 🙂
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… <— (me look at the passing clouds, whistling a tune, lalalala…)