Post by tonyw on Sept 16, 2021 17:44:42 GMT
I'm posting this early as I'm going to be off-line for a few days.
I know that we've had lots of different sketch effects but I am quite fond of them and I ran across this recent PSE video from davrodigital for creating a pencil sketch that I found a bit different from the standard approach.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlPQ-Q3qvZ8&ab_channel=davrodigital
The first 6 minutes or so deals with creating the pencil sketch and after that you are free to do whatever you want with it. What I liked about the method was the use of Motion Blur instead of the normal Gaussian Blur (you could also try other blurs) and the use of a brush on a Soft Light layer to darken or lighten areas of the sketch.
Here's a summary of the pencil sketch creation:
Duplicate the Background
Convert to B&W (Desaturate or Ctrl-Shift-U)
Duplicate the B&W layer
Invert it (Ctrl-I) and set the Blend Mode to Color Dodge
Filter>Blur>Motion Blur (Set Distance and Angle for the best effect)
Add a new layer and merge visible
Add a new layer and set the Blend Mode to Soft Light
With a soft edge brush and reduced opacity paint with black to darken and white to lighten sketch areas.
Add a levels adjustment layer and tweak to finish off the pencil sketch.
In the example below I then set the pencil sketch to overlay blend mode over the original to add colour to the sketch (and did a sky replacement) but play around doing whatever you want and looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Tony
I know that we've had lots of different sketch effects but I am quite fond of them and I ran across this recent PSE video from davrodigital for creating a pencil sketch that I found a bit different from the standard approach.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlPQ-Q3qvZ8&ab_channel=davrodigital
The first 6 minutes or so deals with creating the pencil sketch and after that you are free to do whatever you want with it. What I liked about the method was the use of Motion Blur instead of the normal Gaussian Blur (you could also try other blurs) and the use of a brush on a Soft Light layer to darken or lighten areas of the sketch.
Here's a summary of the pencil sketch creation:
Duplicate the Background
Convert to B&W (Desaturate or Ctrl-Shift-U)
Duplicate the B&W layer
Invert it (Ctrl-I) and set the Blend Mode to Color Dodge
Filter>Blur>Motion Blur (Set Distance and Angle for the best effect)
Add a new layer and merge visible
Add a new layer and set the Blend Mode to Soft Light
With a soft edge brush and reduced opacity paint with black to darken and white to lighten sketch areas.
Add a levels adjustment layer and tweak to finish off the pencil sketch.
In the example below I then set the pencil sketch to overlay blend mode over the original to add colour to the sketch (and did a sky replacement) but play around doing whatever you want and looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Tony
