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Turn a photo portrait into a pencil drawing in Photoshop
We are going to apply a bunch of Photoshop effects and use a few tricks to turn a photograph of lovely Scarlett into a pencil drawing. It's a bite longer tutorial just be sure to follow it closely and you'll be fine.
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Open a portrait photo. It can be any other photo as well, I chose to turn the lovely actress Scarlett Johansson into a drawing.
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Click Create a new Hue/Saturation adjustment layer (see picture). If you can't find the Adjustments panel click Window and choose Adjustments.
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In the Hue/Saturation windows set Saturation to -100. We just used an adjustment layer to turn the photo black and white.
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Select the original layer - Background layer (see picture).
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Press Ctrl (Command in MacOS) and J, to duplicate the layer.
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In the menu click Image, Adjustments and choose Invert.
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Set the duplicated layer's blending mode to Color Dodge. Don't worry if the document looks a little bland at the moment.
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In the Layers palette click the options button on the right (see picture) and choose Convert to Smart Object.
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Duplicate layer just got a little icon in its thumbnail which means it is now a Smart Object.
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In the menu click Filter, Blur and choose Gaussian Blur... Set the Radius to about 11 and choose OK.
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11.
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This is how it should look like at this point. Not bad right? :)
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In step 8 we turned a layer into a Smart Object. This come in really handy if you want to adjust the applied filters at any time you want. Simply double-click the filter if you want to readjust it (see picture).
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Click Create a new Levels adjustment layer. If you can't find the Adjustments panel click Window and choose Adjustments.
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We will leave the Levels as they are only to set the blending mode to Multiply (see picture) ...
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... and set its Opacity to about 60% (see picture).
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Select the original Background layer.
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Press Ctrl (Command in MacOS) and J, to duplicate the layer.
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Now drag and drop the duplicated layer to the very top of the layers (see picture).
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Set the layer's blending mode to Color (see picture).
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Set the Opacity to about 40% (see picture).
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This is how the whole image looks like. Also recommended:
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And the original Scarlett.
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