Pencil Sketch Filter?

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MonkeySpanker
Sep 4, 2003
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I am wondering if there is a filter or technique available that will allow me to turn a portrait photograph into a fake pencil drawing, as a colleague of mine recently bought one of these drawings for £80.00, and I wanted to prove to him that its possible in photoshop!

Anyone tried this?
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Thee_DarkOverLord
Sep 4, 2003
Try playing arround with the artistic and brush stroke filters.
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bart.cross
Sep 4, 2003
Also duplicate the image, apply filters and use layer transparency.
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MonkeySpanker
Sep 4, 2003
2 good ideas, thanks!!
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JasonSmith
Sep 4, 2003
You could also try different sketch filters/settings on each channel.
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barry gray
Sep 4, 2003
This been around awhile-not mine
Desat
dup. layer
invert
Set layer to dodge-image should be white
G. blurr
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Rafael Aviles
Sep 4, 2003
There are several filters that do a very good job of this at the Adobe Expert Center or Adobe Studio action exchange:

http://share.studio.adobe.com/axAssetDetailSubmit.asp?aID=75 47&back=http%3A%2F%2Fshare%2Estudio%2Eadobe%2Ecom%2FDefa ult%2Easp

(you may have to register to be able to access these. It is free)
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MonkeySpanker
Sep 5, 2003
This is great, overwhelming response, I will give these filters a try right now.

Thanks!!
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Phosphor
Sep 5, 2003

1. With the original image open, duplicate the layer. =(Layer 1)
2. Desaturate Layer 1 (Image/ Adjustments/Desaturate)
3. Duplicate layer 1. =(Layer 2)
4. Invert layer 2. (Image/adjustments/invert)
5. Change the blending mode of layer 2 to Color Dodge.
The display will turn completely white.
6. Apply a gaussian blur to layer 2. The amount of blur will determine the width of the sketch lines.

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