How to draw on a photograph in Photoshop. How to make a photo look like it was drawn using PhotoShop

In this simple lesson, I will show you a technique on how you can use Photoshop to make a drawing from an ordinary photograph that looks as if it was drawn with colored paints. The bet is placed on the outlined edges. The effect is that the drawing was first sketched in pencil, and then it was painted over, leaving an emphasized outline of the contours.

Original image:

Final result:

Step 10

Activate the bottom black and white layer and set the blending mode to or, depending on how your photo looks.

With mode Overlap:

With mode Soft light:

To reduce the color intensity, you can lower the value on the second black and white layer or on the background layer.

RESULT

The finished result should look something like this:

When choosing a photo for processing, please note that this lesson best allows you to stylize images with nature or flowers. Macro photography is also suitable for this lesson. Editing portrait photos or pictures of animals will most likely not look as impressive.

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Good day to everyone, dear friends, readers and everyone who visited my blog. First of all, I congratulate you on a wonderful holiday - Great Victory Day! Our grandparents kicked the fascists' butts in their time. And that's cool. There is a reason to be proud of Our Country (and even more than one)! Well, secondly, let's get down to business. I recently saw a friend’s portrait of him drawn in pencil. And I thought: “It’s very cool to have your own pencil drawing.”

But unfortunately, not everyone has such an opportunity: either they are too lazy to do it, or they don’t want to spend extra money, or they simply have nowhere, etc. But I want to make you happy. This process can be imitated, and I will be happy to show you how to make a drawing in Photoshop from a photo easily and in just a couple of minutes. It may not turn out exactly the same, but believe me, it looks just great. So stretch your fingers, crunch them and let's go!

1. Open the image in our favorite editor and immediately duplicate the layer. To do this, press the key combination CTRL+J. Has an exact copy of the layer been created? Great!
   
2. We need to desaturate the newly created layer, i.e. . The easiest way is to go to the menu “Image” - “Correction” - “Desaturate”. Is the photo now black and white? Great.
   
3. Now let's duplicate another layer, only this time we will duplicate not the original, but a black and white copy.
4. The newly created copy must be inverted. To do this, go to the menu “Image” - “Correction” - “Inversion” or just click CTRL+I. Don't be alarmed that the picture has become a negative. That's how it should be).
   
5. Now, without leaving the negative layer, expand the list of blending options and select "Base Lightening". Everything should be filled with white light, but don’t be alarmed, as Elena Malysheva says: “This is the norm!”
   
6. Now let's go to the familiar filter "Gaussian blur". If you don’t remember where it is, then go to the menu “Filter” - “Blur” - "Gaussian blur". Now move the slider until it looks like a pencil sketch. For me this value is 2, but there is no standard here, so adjust it to suit your case yourself.
   

For good measure, we already have a good imitation of a pencil drawing, but if desired, we can make it even better. Want to? Then let's look further.

In general, this is how we get a pencil drawing. There are, of course, other methods, and to be honest, they are more realistic, but also more complex, so I will talk about them in other articles. Well, how do you like this imitation? Has the right to life? I think yes.

But if you still have little understanding of Photoshop and want to learn it quickly, then I recommend that you learn this video course. There is everything you need, and you watch everything in the format of video lessons, which is much more convenient than text. In addition, everything is told in simple, understandable human language in order from easy to complex. Overall, be sure to check it out.

Best regards, Dmitry Kostin.

Adobe Photoshop provides very wide opportunities for creative photo processing. In the photo editor you can not only improve the frame, but also achieve unusual artistic effects.

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a drawing from a photo in Photoshop. We will use filters as the main tool.

For example, let’s take this photo taken in Portugal:

And here’s what happens after our manipulations:

To make a drawing from a photo in Photoshop, open the photo in the program and create a color layer: Layer → New Fill Layer → Solid Color....

In the dialog box that appears, set the color of the paper on which our sketch will be. You can select shades of white, gray or sepia.

After this, create a copy of the main layer ( Background) and apply a filter to it Photocopy/"Ragged Edges" from the set.

Let's call the new layer "Rough Sketch". Let's set its blending mode Multiply. Here we imitate the sketch that artists make before drawing the details.

But artists never draw clear and precise lines the first time. We want to make something similar to a sketch, and there should be more rough lines. Therefore, we create a copy of the layer "Rough Sketch" and increase it a little. Press the key combination Command + T and in the top menu set the width and height to 105%.

The canvas will stretch a little, and the lines of the drawing will double. After this, set the opacity of this layer to about 10–20% so that the lines become almost invisible, as if the artist was aiming and marking the sheet for further drawing.

Now we'll do the same thing, but we'll make the original canvas smaller to make even more sketch lines.

Copy the layer "Rough Sketch" and using transformation, reduce the width and height to 95%. Set the opacity for this layer to 10–20%.

Now we need to add more graphic effects to make the stylization even more similar to the drawing.

Making a copy of the base layer Background.

After that we will use the filter Cutout/"Applique" from a set of filters Filter → Filter Gallery…. You can select filter parameters to suit your taste or use our settings.

Drag the stylized layer to the top of the layers panel and apply a filter to it Filter → Stylize → Find Edges.... It will allow you to more clearly highlight the main lines and boundaries of objects that should be drawn better in the drawing.

Now let’s make the borders selected in the previous step black and white: Image → Adjustments → Desaturate.

Let's name the new layer "Sketch" and set its blending mode Color Burn. Let's adjust the opacity.

The previous step can be repeated to add more details.

So, we almost succeeded in making a drawing from a photograph in Photoshop. Now we need to add some pencil shading.

Background and drag it to the top of the layers panel. Apply a filter to the new layer Filter → Stylize → Find Edges....

Now let's decolorize it.

Let's use a filter Angled Strokes from the set Brush Strokes on the menu Filter → Filter Gallery….

Let's adjust the stroke length, direction and detail.

Set the new layer's blending mode Multiply and opacity about 60%. It can be seen that strokes have been added to the image.

We continue to add details. Let's make even more strokes.

We also duplicate the base layer Background, apply a filter Crosshatch/"Slanted strokes" from the set Brush Strokes in the Filter menu → Filter Gallery....

Let's decolorize it.

Setting the blending mode Multiply and adjust the opacity.

At this stage, we have already managed to make a drawing from a photograph in Photoshop. If your goal is a black and white sketch, then you can stop there.

Create another copy of the base layer Background and drag it to the top of the layers panel. Setting the blending mode Color. The drawing immediately “colored up.” All that remains is to use the mask to leave individual parts of the image colored.

Add a mask to the layer by clicking on the icon Add Layer Mask/“Add mask” in the bottom menu in the layers panel. By default, a white mask will be added, we need to invert it: click on the mask icon and press the key combination Command + I.

After that, choose a brush to your taste. This can be an imitation of a pencil, crayons or watercolors from the standard Adobe Photoshop set, or some additional brushes.

Using the selected brush on the mask, paint in white the areas where the color should be. You can experiment with the size and type of brush, its density.

We got it like this:

Using these simple manipulations, we were able to make a pencil drawing from a photo in Photoshop. Each step is on a separate layer, so you can at any time strengthen or weaken this or that effect, add or remove something using a mask.

Taking the principles of this method as a basis, you can come up with an algorithm with other filters from the set Filter → Filter Gallery… and in Photoshop make a pencil drawing from the photo.

There are talented people who can create stunning realistic paintings. But if you're not one of them, today's tutorial will help you achieve a similar effect using Adobe Photoshop. In this tutorial you will learn how to create a painted effect from a photograph. In this case, you do not need to use a brush, since the whole process is based on effects.

The effect we want to achieve in this tutorial is to simulate realistic brush strokes. This technique is great for turning a photo into an illustration, for example for creating retro posters.

Open your image in Photoshop. The example uses a portrait from Shutterstock. Add a Curves adjustment layer and darken the dark areas and lighten the light ones to increase the contrast.

Press CMD/Ctrl+J twice to duplicate the background layer twice. Switch to the top copy and select the High Pass effect from the Filters menu.

Adjust the effect so that the image details appear against the gray background. A small value - about 1-3px - will help avoid creating a halo.

Change the blending mode for this layer to Linear Light. The image now looks sharper. These sharpened areas will help us create brush strokes, particularly in the hair.

Combine the High Pass effect layer with a copy of the background layer located below it, then select Filter > Stylize > Diffuse from the menu.

Select Anisotropic diffusion mode. This is the key to creating the brush stroke effect.

If you look at the work up close, you will notice some ugly spots in the areas where the diffusion repeats. We'll fix that now.

From the menu, select Image > Image Rotation > 90° CW/Image>Image Rotation>90° Clockwise, then press CMD/Ctrl+F to repeat the Diffuse filter.

Repeat the same procedure, rotating the image 90° again and applying the Diffuse filter again. Repeat this step a third time and rotate the image again, returning it to its correct position.

The Diffuse filter created a cool brush stroke effect, but blurred the image a little. To fix this, select Filter > Sharpen > Smart Sharpen/Filter>Sharpen>Custom Sharpening from the menu. Use a value around 100%, but within a small radius so as not to overdo it.

The result already looks good. Diffuse creates swirling details on the skin, making the image look even more like it's been painted. But there is one more step you can take to make your work look like it was drawn on a computer. Select Surface Blur from the Filter > Blur > Blur menu. Specify a Radius of about 50px and a Threshold of about 15. If you set these parameters correctly, the effect will only affect large, flat areas of the image.

Our painted image effect is ready!

The effect looks especially good up close.

Translation – Duty room

In this tutorial we will make a pencil drawing from a photograph. For work, I took a photo of a girl, which you can also download in the “Materials” panel on the right.

1) So, open the photo of the girl with Photoshop and get started. First of all, we make a copy of the photo layer and apply the “Baselight” overlay to the top layer instead of “Normal”.

2) Next, apply “Inversion” to the same top layer. To do this, with the top layer selected in the layers panel, select “Image” - “Correction” - “Invert” from the top menu, or press the key combination “Ctrl” + “i”.

3) Now we will apply the “Gaussian Blur” filter to the same layer; to do this, with the layer selected, select “Filter” - “Blur” - “Gaussian Blur” in the top menu and in the filter window that appears, set the blur radius to “26.3” . This value was chosen specifically for the size of the photo we are editing; if the size is larger or smaller, then the blur value will also have to be selected differently. The main thing is that you get the same result.

4) Now you need to decolorize the treated layer. To do this, with the layer selected, in the layers panel below, select the “Hue/Saturation” adjustment layer.

5) The next step is to adjust the “Levels” of the layer. To do this, as in the previous case, with the layer selected, select the “Levels” adjustment layer in the lower menu of the layers panel and in the settings window that appears, adjust the levels so that the picture becomes more contrasting.

6) Now select the bottom layer with the photo, which is in its original form, and convert this layer into a “Smart Object”. To do this, right-click on it and select “Convert to Smart Object”.

Now apply the “Cross Strokes” filter to this layer, which will simulate the effect of pencil strokes. To do this, with the layer selected in the top menu, select “Filter” - “Filter Gallery” - “Cross Strokes” in the “Strokes” filter tab. Now we set up a filter by values ​​as in the screenshot.

After these manipulations, we will get what we wanted - the effect of a pencil drawing from an ordinary photo.