Change Color Photo to Line Drawing

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Joy Kessler
Sep 1, 2003
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Does PE2 have a way to take a color photograph and convert it to a black and white line drawinG?
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Nancy S
Sep 1, 2003
Joy,

Yes, experiment with all the filters. Particularly look under the Sketch offerings. Most are self explanatory as to what effect they create.
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Nancy S
Sep 1, 2003
Joy,

Try this:

On a flattened copy of an image…

Filter>Blur>Smart Blur
* radius 20
* threshold=25
* quality=high
* mode=edge only

OK this. Then go to
Image (or it might be Edit) > Adjustments > Invert

And there it is! You can select different parameters of course and play with the many other filters in the program, combining several if desired.
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Bernard Saper
Sep 1, 2003
Yes you can do this directly. Convert the image to grayscale and then choose filter>stylize>find edges. The effect is very dramatic. This procedure works particularly well where the image contains strong lines, as in architectural photos.

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Does PE2 have a way to take a color photograph and convert it to a black
and white line drawinG?
PL
Paul L UK
Sep 1, 2003
Another way, depending on image:-
open image;
layer>duplicate layer;
desaturate (ctrl+shift+U);
layer>duplicate layer;
invert (ctrl+I);
change blending mode to colour dodge.
Should now have an all white screen/image.

Normal next is gaussian blur, varying the slider to get the best effect, but a lot of other filters can be used, have a play.

Paul
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Ray
Sep 1, 2003
Another to do this :

Open your image, make a duplicate layer (in case something goes wrong) Filter / Blur / Smart Blur, for the Mode, select Edges Only. Adjust the settings to your needs Image / Adjust / Invert

Voilà!

Ray

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