It is to draw a perfect sketch of any person or object by hand has always been considered a great art. But whenever we look around, such sort of artists are very rarely found. But we can see such sketches in books and newspapers almost everyday . These sketches might be real and drawn by real artists with art on their finger tips but at the same time they might not. As it has long since been possible to convert a photograph whether it be a colored one or a black and white, into a sketch that seems perfectly hand-drawn, news papers and other publishing companies have stopped bothering themselves finding such artists. Though there are many other photo-editors which are used to convert a photograph into a sketch or line-drawing, but the most popular and easy to use is none other than Adobe Photoshop.
In order to turn a picture into a line drawing or a sketch, first of all open a picture in Adobe Photoshop by hitting CTRL + O or by getting inside the File Menu and clicking Open.
As soon as you will do that, a small window will be appeared at the right side of your Photoshop window. In that window, the option Layers will be selected by default. Further the picture you have opened to work at, will clearly be visible in that window as locked-background.
How to unlock a locked layer?
The next thing you are supposed to do is to unlock the locked layer. For that purpose, put the pointer of your mouse on the Background (layer which contains the picture you have recently opened to turn into a line drawing) and press the left button of your mouse twice. As soon as you will perform that action, a small window will be appeared called
New Layer.
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| New Layer: Type the name for unlocked layer and set mode and opacity |
In that window there will be seen two boxes including
Name and
Group with previous. Type the name of the layer in the name box while do nothing with the second option that is
Group with previous (that option will not be active in this case because we have not created any layer previously). Apart from these two boxes, the
New Layer window contains three more options.These are called
Color, Mode and Opacity.
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| Color setting in New Layer window is not necessary |
Set the
Opacity of the layer upto 100% and out of the
Mode Menuselect
Normal. As far as the menu called
Color is concerned, if you select red or green or blue or white or totally ignore that menu, it will not make any difference at all. After necessary setting, click OK. As soon as you will click OK the
New Layer window will disappear and the name of the layer will be changed from 'Background' to the one you have typed in the New Layer window’s name box, and the picture of lock will disappear out of the layer, meaning, layer will be unlocked and freely movable .
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| Layer name has been change from Background to Background copy |
How to create a duplicate layer?
Then put the pointer again on that unlocked layer and hit the right button of your mouse once. With that right click a menu will be appeared, out of that menu select the option
Duplicate Layer.
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| Select the option Duplicate layer to open Duplicate Layer Window |
As soon as you will select that option , another window will be appeared called
Duplicate Layer.
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| Duplicate of Background copy is about to be made |
In that window type the name of the duplicate layer in the box called
As. While there is no need to set the
Destination of the duplicate layer, so you can leisurely ignore it. After that click OK and you will find the two identical layers with different names (depends on what names you have given those layers) in the layer window.
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| Background copy and Sketch :Two identical layers |
How to select Blending Mode?
Select the top-most layer out of both and then select the blending mode called
Color Dodge out of the drop-down menu that can be seen right beneath the word layers in the layer window.
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| Drop-down Menu: Contains many blending modes |
As soon as you will select that color mode, there will be seen a few but obvious changes in the picture’s color scheme.
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| Image: After the selection of blending mode called Color Dodge |
Invert (CTRL + I)
After that, hit CTRL + I. As soon as you will hit the keys , picture will be vanished totally and all you will see, will be nothing but a blank page.
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| Image: After being inverted |
Gaussian Blur
Then get inside the filter menu, select the option
Blur and out of the submenu of
Blur select the option
Gaussian Blur.
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| Selection of filter out of the filter menu |
As soon as you will select that option, picture will be reappeared on the page along with a window called
Gaussian Blur. Here at this point picture will look more like a hand-drawn sketch than a photograph, but your work will not be accomplished at that point.
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| Work nearly accomplished |
In the window that is referred as
Gaussian Blur you are supposed to set the
Radius of the
Blur. Before starting, put check in the check box right beside the word
Preview in the
Gaussian Blur window. Then set the radius of the blur to set required details in the picture.
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| Radius :Show as much details in the sketch as you want |
If you set more radius your picture will show more details and if you set less radius your picture will show less details after being transformed into a sketch. After the setting of required radius, click OK and with that click the window called
Gaussian Blur will be disappeared.
Saturation
The last thing you are supposed to do to accomplish the task is to click the tiny icon that can be seen right beneath the layer window called
Create new fill or adjustment layer.
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| That tiny icon will open a new window |
As soon as you will click that icon, a menu will be appeared and out of that menu select the option
Hue and Saturation.
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| Menu : That contains many options to manipulate the image look |
After the selection of that option, within an instant, another small window will be appeared called
Hue/Saturation. In that window ,you will see three options these are:
Hue,
Saturation, and
Lightness.
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| There is no need to set Hue and Lightness |
Out of these three options, you are not supposed to make any change in
Hue and
Lightness. The only change you are supposed to make is in
Saturation. Set the saturation of the layer equals to -100 and click OK. With that click you will notice that the picture has lost all it’s photographic qualities and has assumed the form of a hand-drawn sketch.
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| Image : After complete editing |
Save the image in your required format by getting inside the file menu and selecting the option
Save As or hitting the keys CTRL+ SHFT + S.
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