pen-and-ink-drawing

With the Adobe Photoshop CS3, you can easily create a pen-and-ink drawing from a photograph using a variety of methods. With this Photoshop CS3 tutorial, you will learn about how to do a pen-and-ink drawing the easy way. Actually, Photoshop has many filters like find edges that find areas of contrast and outline these. However, by changing a duplicated layer to a high-contrast greyscale first, then, applying the smart blur filter in the edges only mode, you will get a black image with white lines. This Photoshop tutorial will help you a lot.

Actually, it is depending on the look that you want. You can simply apply a filter like a minimum with 1 pixel radius to thicken the lines. The artistic effects usually do not appear strong enough in a large image. If you find out that your project is still too photographic, you can revert and reduce the image size before applying Photoshop filters to get more artistic-looking results. Here is Photoshop CS3 tutorial to create pen-and-ink drawing.

1. Duplicate the background layer by pressing Ctlr+J.

2. Click image – adjustments – black and white. Then, the black and white dialog box will appear.

3. Select infrared on black and white option. Apply the other options are all right. Click OK. Then, the image will turn to the greyscale image.

4. Click filter – blur – smart blur. The smart blur dialog box will appear.

5. Type 35 in the radius field and 35 in the threshold field. You can change the number to adjust it depending on the image.

6. Select high – select edge only – click OK. Then, the progress bar will appear as the smart blur filter is applied and the image will also turn black with white outlines.

7. Click image – adjustments – invert. Then, the drawing will appear as black lines on a white background!

The steps 3 to 6 are optional. Creating your design is not a bad idea. This Photoshop tutorial will not help at all if you are not brave enough to be creative.
M.A.H.

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