How To Convert Photos into Sketches ?

[Aakaar]

Hello, How do you transform a photo in the Sketch ? Like the result that gives an artist making a portrait or a landscape with the stroke of a pen. Can we do it with any Software, to make our photos look like it is drawed done by hand. Can you give me with the explanation to successfully transform the photograph of my Choice into Sketches , Thanks in Advance For your Help

[Dutta]

You Can use These AKVIS Sketch Which enables you to convert your photos into pencil/charcoal sketches or watercolor drawings. It provides adjustable sliders that allow you to customize the effects and stroke types and create a variety of image styles by mixing watercolors and charcoal along with color intensity and other settings. When used with Photoshop, AKVIS Sketch also supports batch processing. Unfortunately, the program does not provide any useful presets to get you started, so it may require a lengthy process of hit-and-miss to achieve the desired results. The download includes a standalone version, and a Photoshop compatible plug-in version.AKVIS Sketch allows adding background effects to the resulting pencil drawing. Create a blend of a drawing and a photo; imitate motion or add “time machine effect” by swirling the background. Put an accent to certain parts of the image by blurring the rest of it in an artistic way. It proves especially useful when the final drawing contains too many details on the background that divert attention. You can personalize your work of art by adding an inscription (a signature or a greeting) to your pencil drawing. Besides, the parameters on the Canvas tab allow adding a rough surface to your image, as if it has been drawn on canvas, corrugated paper, brick wall, etc. AKVIS Sketch has a neat interface with a few sliders. At first you can process the image with the default settings and then touch up the photo adding color, or trying different techniques - from pencil to charcoal or watercolor. You can make the hatching denser or finer and change the pitch angle of strokes, add/remove the original colors. Home users will be delighted by the neat result of the photo-to-sketch conversion. AKVIS Sketch can bring a lot of fun: a pencil portrait can be a good present for your relatives and friends, a watercolor drawing obtained from your last nature shooting can decorate your room, you can convert any photo to an original drawing to print on a T-Shirt. The program can be helpful to designers who need to quickly bring images to one style for a web-site or an advertisement booklet.

You can download it From here

[need Tos]

Windows only: Convert your photographs into black and white sketches or watercolor paintings with Photo to Sketch.The program is extremely simple to use - just select a photo on your machine and click on "convert." You have a choice of pen, pastel, or pencil, along with a few rudimentary editing options. Photo to Sketch is a free download, Windows only. It is a tool to convert a photo to excellent sketch, and paint water color freehandly.You can convert your photo to:

• Pen sketch;
• Pencil sketch;
• Brush sketch(Only Freehand panel);

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[Gusgr8]

1. Copy your photo into a new document and name ir 'Original'. Duplicate the layer 'Original' and rename it 'Desaturated'. Desaturate the layer 'Desaturated' so that it has no color by hitting Shift+Ctrl+U (Mac: Shift+Command+U). Duplicate the 'Desaturated' layer and name the new layer '1'. Now go Filters>Blur>Smart Blur and use these settings:
   
   • Radius: 60
   • Threshold: 100
   • Best Quality and use Edge Only.
   • Click OK and invert the layer, now apply a Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur with a radius of 1, and set its Blending Mode to Hard Light (which can by done in the upper left corner of the Layers Palette)
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2. Duplicate the 'Desaturated' layer, rename it to '2', and move it over layer '1'. Now go Stylize>Emboss and use these settings:
   
   
   • Height: 1
   • Amount: 119%
   • Click OK and set the Blending Mode to Hard Light. Duplicate the 'Desaturated' layer, rename it to '3', and move it above layer '2'. Apply the Filters>Blur>Smart Blur filter once again but this time use:
   • Radius: 10
   • Threshold: 100
   • Best Quality and Edges Only.
   • Click OK. Invert the layer and set the Blending Mode to Multiply and Opacity to 40%.
   
   
   
3. Once again, duplicate the 'Desaturated' layer, rename it to '4' and move it above layer '3'. Apply the Filter>Styling>Glowing Edges filter with these settings:
   
   • Edge Width: 1
   • Edge Brightness: 7
   • Smoothness: 6
   • Click OK and invert the layer. Set the Blending Mode to Multiply and the Opacity to 40%. Duplicate the layer '4' and Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur it, use a radius of about 3 - 4 this will give us that shaded look. Set the Blending Mode to Multiply and Opacity to 100%.
   
   
   
4. Adding Color:
   Duplicate the 'Original' layer and name it 'Color' and move it to the top of all the layers. Set its Blending Mode to Hard Light, duplicate the layer 'Color', and set its Blending Mode to Color. Here are the finished results.
   

[Isaac1]

Hey You can Do this With This photoshop tutorial From these You can learn how to convert photos into good looking sketches. And then if you want to learn more we will show you how to make an inverse sketch. Ok after you have the picture that you want to work on open in photoshop:

1. In the Image menu select Adjustments and then Desaturate. (Image>Adjustments>Desaturate.) And it should turn black and white like shown on the left.
   
   
2. Then in the Filter menu select Stylize and then Find Edges. (Filter>Stylize>Find Edges). It should look something like whats shown on the left. In this picture the result seems a little too bright, in order to bring out more of the black:
   
   
3. Use a Levels Adjustment Layer, (Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Levels) to bring out more of the black if you want.
   
   
4. Ok, that's all there is to making a good sketch, now if you want to make an inverse sketch here's how:
   
   
5. Make a duplicate layer of the Background layer, (Layer>Duplicate Layer). And then change the Layer Mode to Exclusion. When your done your layer menu should look like this on the left.