Credible pencil portraits

[Robert]

I don't tend to use filters, but have always liked to experiment with
the charcoal and chalk ones, trying to create a good portrait. But the
results are always pretty poor. Whilst on holiday I saw a booth in an
amusement arcade, where "Van Gogh" would take a picture, give you
various options, and produce what I can only say is a superb likeness.

I'm just wondering whether there exist photoshop plugins that do a
rather better job than Photoshop 7? Advice would be gratefully
received!

[Jerry Cargile]

I would like to know, also. A couple of years ago, my granddaughter had
her portrait made at the county fair. It was made by a person who had a
stand set up and used some kind of software and it came out as an
excellent drawing that looked exactly like a pencil drawing.

If you get any good tips please post them.

Jerry
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[JP Kabala]

try using this technique
http://www.heathrowe.com/tuts/pencil.asp
then xero graphics pastellizer or lineart

I find it looks best in monochrome

HTH

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[Jerry Cargile]

JP Kabala wrote:
> try using this technique
> http://www.heathrowe.com/tuts/pencil.asp
> then xero graphics pastellizer or lineart
>
> I find it looks best in monochrome
>
> HTH

Looks very good.....thanks for the tutorial, JP.

Jerry
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[Hecate]

Well, there is stuff about for Photoshop, but really (and I suspect
this is what the guy was using) the only way to get a really good
result is to use Painter.

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[ElDee]

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:33:13 GMT, rob...@nospam.rleggat.com (Robert)
wrote:

Try this:

Shift + Ctrl +U
Ctrl + J
Ctrl + I
in layers palette change mode to color dodge
Filter Blur > Gaussian Blur Use radius until it looks like sketch

Regards,
Duane

[Adrian]

I've had luck using the "Rough Pastel" filter, but rather than use a
default setting, I click on import and use one of my own custom
greyscale patterns as the texture filter. It's very simple, just tile
some random squiggles and import into "Rough Pastel," adjust the
various parameters to your taste as in this example:

http://www.amenfoto.com/gallery/portraitstweaked/is_chicas_texture.html

Adrian

"A Picture's Worth A Thousand Nerds."

http://www.amenfoto.com/

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[Jerry Cargile]

ElDee wrote:

> Try this:
>
> Shift + Ctrl +U
> Ctrl + J
> Ctrl + I
> in layers palette change mode to color dodge
> Filter Blur > Gaussian Blur Use radius until it looks like sketch

This is so simple to do and yet produces a realistic sketch,
IMO....thanks for posting it, Duane.

Jerry
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[edjh]

There are a couple of actions on the Adobe Studio Exchange for this. One
ia called "Sketchy"; the other I can't remember. Make nice B&W sketches.

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[Steen Alexandersen]

Here is another easy one:

Dublicate your layer
filter -> other -> highpass (radius 4,0)
image -> adjust -> threashold (between 124-128)
set the opacity for the dublicate layer to 50%

Play with the values, hue/saturation and colorbalance. Try also to add some
lightning effects and it will turn out great.

Good luck
Steen

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[Dafydd]

Robert wrote:

I've only just seen this posting .. The 'sketching' software you referred to
could have been PhotoArtMaster - look at the fo2pix Web Page.

[Merlin]

Check out Sketch Effect from

http://store.yahoo.com/forwarddesign/sketcheffect.html

Looks cool - Merlin

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