Changing a color photo to a pencil drawing

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Nov 16, 2005
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I have a color photo of a persons face and I would like to make it look like it is a black pencil drawing. I tried the CS2 plug-ins and was not happy with the looks.
Does anyone know of a web site that tells how to do this change? Is there a good plug-in that can do this?

Thanks

Nath
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Mike Hyndman
Nov 16, 2005
"nk" wrote in message
I have a color photo of a persons face and I would like to make it look like it is a black pencil drawing. I tried the CS2 plug-ins and was not happy with the looks.
Does anyone know of a web site that tells how to do this change? Is there a good plug-in that can do this?

N,

The techniques for this will differ depending on the type of subject, below are three links you may find useful.
http://www.webclass.ru/eng/Tutorials/Photoshop/Imitation_of_ pencil.html http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/drawing/
http://www.entheosweb.com/fireworks/pencil_drawing.asp

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