Turning photos into colored pencil sketch
In this tutorial we will show you how you can make a colored pencil sketch from a photograph with your photoshop or photoshop elements.
Here’s the before and after picture:
Step 1: Open your file (file>open or ctrl +o)
Step 2: Make a duplicate of your backgound layer (layer>duplicate layer or by dragging your background layer to create new layer button in your layer pallete).
Step 3: Turn that layer to Black & White (Image>Image Adjustments>Desaturate)
Step 4: Now copy your background copy layer (layer>duplicate layer or by dragging your background layer to create new layer button in your layer pallete).
Step 6: Change the layer mode to color dodge, and you should be hardly to see anything on your image.
Step 7: Now apply gaussian blur to that layer. Play around with it until you get the desired look. Here’s mine with 20.5 pixel
Step 8: You’ve got yourself a b&w pencil sketch. Now for some colors, click your ‘background copy’ layer and expriment with the opacity for the desired look. I like it mine with 65%
That’s it!
See also: Photoshop Tutorials
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AWESOME tutorial… i might use this as the theme for my site
Thank u for your kind words Laura..
All the best with your new site..
Great tutorial! This is come in handy
Great tut keep up the good work
That chick is gorgeous
vcs sao mto cabecudos pq fazer um site desses sem prma e sem cabeca
Whaoo!
It’s great! Thanks! Very much! It looks like a real drawing!!!!
It’s very useful!
very useful site for beginners like me who quest for techniques
Thanks for this site
Nice Tutorial, only the girl is not nice
thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i’ve been looking for this kind of effect and i finally found yours!!!!! yoiu dont know how much i needed it! thanks!
nice… it’s a better tutorial than the others i saw
that was short and sweet tutorial! loved it!
Great tutorial– It worked great and only took a few minutes!!
great tutorial… nice, many thanks
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Thanks for this tutorial I have always wondered how this was done, and it seems quite easy to do.
I will have to give it a go to find out!
A wonderful tutorial !!! Was searching for one of this kind for quite a long time… !!! Good Work !!!
thnx for the tutorial…
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Thanks awesome tut!
something is not working for me between step 6 and 7. Step 6: Change the layer mode to color dodge, and you should be hardly to see anything on your image.
colour dodge leaves my picture unchanged, can’t get the pencil sketch.
what am I doing wrong?
Thanks for a helping tip.