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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceVSg0LWCqY

I can't get past where he says to invert. The only thing I can find in help with masks.

Thanks,
Jason

Check this tut, is it what you want?

http://psp7tutorials.homestead.com/PencilSketch.html

(03-16-2009 08:56 PM)3B DigitalArt Wrote: [ -> ]Check this tut, is it what you want?

http://psp7tutorials.homestead.com/PencilSketch.html

Thats pretty close. It isn't quite exact. Perhaps my photos wasn't as even as it should have been to make it work, or maybe because I am using a different version of PSP. I think Jerrod has a tutorial how to do this. Those steps seemed mostly familiar to me. Thanks it gets me in the ballpark.

You're welcome!

It's under Adjustment Layers - Invert.

I want to explain a bit further. My apologies for being so vague earlier.

Here is how that process is done in PSP.

Open any image, set it to greyscale. Then duplicate it.

On the top layer, use negative image, change blend mode to Dodge.

On top layer, use Guassian blur, (I set mine to 15)

On bottom image/layer, the PSP smart blur is actually "Average" You can use the slider to make real time adjustments that way. Lower settings work best.

I suggest merging down the images and trying out different effects mentioned below:

Art Media - Black Pencil using about 20 for setting.
Edge Effects - Enhance More

I believe you can do this on most versions of PSP, at least down to 9, that I am aware of.

The results:

Before -

After -

Awesome. That works perfectly. Thank you very much!

There are several Photoshop techniques to convert a photograph to a line drawing. One of them was already discussed in the Drawing/Painting effect Photoshop tutorial.
That Photoshop technique was based on the Film Grain filter. Most of these kind of conversions are done in Photoshop with filters like Smart Blur, Find Edges or Glowing Edges.
In this Photoshop tutorial I'm showing a recently discovered technique that I haven't seen anywhere else and that's the reason why I'm sharing it with you. The technique is based on two filters:
* High Pass
* Note Paper
The results are slightly different and often better than other Photoshop techniques I've talked about earlier.
1. Select the right image
Open an image that doesn't have a lot of rough textures, because like with the other techniques the results are not going to be that good.
In my example I've opened the image of a clock in Photoshop. Duplicate this background layer by clicking on its icon in the layers palette and while holding the mouse button, drag and drop it on the Create a New Layer icon First press Ctrl + D (Command + D on the Mac) to change the foreground color to black
2. Apply High Pass Filter
Select in the menu: Filter / Other / High Pass
Select a very small radius. The radius depends on the size of the image. In my example I've chosen a radius of only 0.3 pixels.
3. Apply Note Paper filter
Select in the menu: Filter / Sketch / Note Paper...
Use the following values:
* Image Blance: 25 (depends on the image, experiment)
* Graininess: 0
* Relief: 0
4. Convert gray lines to black
In our previous step the lines are not black but some shade of gray. We can change this by adding a threshold correction.Select in the menu: Image / Adjustments / Threshold...Move the slider to the right until you see a black & white drawing of the image. In my example a Threshold Level of 180 was enough.

PSP comes with several scripts which convert images to several variations of line or chalk drawings.

Bob

(03-16-2009 01:37 PM)Swizel Chest Wrote: [ -> ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceVSg0LWCqY

I can't get past where he says to invert. The only thing I can find in help with masks.

Thanks,
Jason

Wow! what a great tutorial is this! This is very informative and easy to understand. Really you did a very good work by sharing it with us.