Pen & Ink Sketch
Imagine having your own favourite photograph and turning it into a Pen & Ink sketch to use as artwork for your children's book. Who says you need to be an artist to get a pleasing result? Below is a photograph I took in the beautiful village of Lerryn in Cornwall. I am using Photoshop CS2, but you should be able to adapt with any photo imaging software.
First duplicate your image and close down your original, you don't want to loose your wonderful photographs.
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With your duplicate file open make a copy of your background layer, go to, Layer > Duplicate Layer. In your layers you should now have your background plus a background copy. You will not need to alter the original background layer at all. |
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With the background copy layer selected, go to Image >; Adjustments > Desaturate, to produce a grayscale layer of your photo. Then go to Filter > Stylize > Find Edges, you should have something like this. |
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Next go to Filter > Artistic > Poster Edges, the settings I used for this image was, edge thickness 0, edge intensity 10 and posteration 0. You should have something like this. It doesn't look as good as the previous step, but bear with me here. |
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Now with your Poster Edge Filter done go to the layers and change the mode from Normal to Multiply in the drop down box. My image was a bit dark so I then went to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast and increased the brightness to 85. |
Every photograph will turn out different, if a photograph of yours is not working, try the Fliter > Blur > Smart Blur Radius 10, Threshold 50, after the Poster Edge filter. Also the Dry Brush fliter gives other softer results.