Pencil drawing photo editor online. How to make a photo look like it was drawn using PhotoShop

There are talented people capable of creating amazing 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. Small value- approximately 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 key point in creating the effect of strokes.

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

Today we’ll look at a simple technique for creating pencil drawing from photo. The technique is so simple that its implementation took me less time than writing a post. Moreover, the result is almost absolute similarity to the real thing. To get started, open the photo you want to change in Photoshop, and let's get started. This is the photo I chose for this lesson.

Photo preparation

Using the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+J) create a copy of the background layer. We will use it as a basis and rename this copy to “Outlines”.

I would like to get an imitation of a drawing made with a simple pencil we need to deprive our “Outlines” of color. To do this, execute the “Desaturate” command as shown or use the keyboard shortcuts (Shift+Ctrl+U).

The Grain setting depends on your photo and artistic design, I chose a value of 2% for my work since I work in a small photo of only 1000x667 pixels. Use the “Gaussian” checkbox in the “Distribution” item to evenly distribute the noise that appears in our future drawing. And check the box for “Monochrome” so that the noise is one color.

Create a copy of this layer in the same way as described above and rename it “Canvas” since our drawing will appear on it. You can change the “Canvas” blend mode to darken using the drop-down list in the palette shown below.

Hide the “Canvas” under the mask using the “Hide All” command. Going along the path Main menu Layers – Layer mask – Hide all. The result is a black mask.

The next step is to show the contours of our future creation to imitate a pencil stroke. Go back to the "Outlines" layer and apply the "Edge Glow" filter from the "Filter Gallery" to it.

How less than value width of the edges, the thinner the contours will be, the less brightness of the edges the contours will be less pronounced softening is responsible for the clarity of the contours, more softening more smooth lines stroke. For each image you need to select these parameters individually based on its size and number of details.

When this operation is completed, click on the “OK” button. We have received a negative image, we need to invert it to bring it into a “divine” form. Apply the “Invert” command to the “Outlines” layer using the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+I). And change the blending mode to Soft Light using the palette list, adjust the opacity between 20 and 25%.

Last operation to prepare our photo - creating a substrate. Create a new layer below the "Outlines" layer. Fill it with white (use the keyboard shortcut Shift+F5 in the “Use” dialog that opens, select Color “White” and press OK). Now that we're done with the preparation, let's move on to creating the drawing.

Creating a drawing from a photo

We will work on the drawing using the “Brush”; select this tool from the program toolbar. In the Tool Options bar, select the Round Curved Fine Brush.

Give the tool the following options.

The higher percentage of “Bristles” you specify, the more subtle there will be lines simulating pencil shading

Set the tool's opacity to 40 to 50%. Install white In the foreground, make the Canvas layer mask active. Work over the mask with a white brush, developing the design. To adjust the brush size as you work, use the ([)increase (]) and decrease keys.

If you make a wrong move, set the foreground color to black and brush over the wrong area, then continue with a white brush. This is the drawing I got from the photo:

That’s all the work is, this technique of creating a drawing looks most attractive when applied to images with a dark, uniform background, it is also suitable for working with landscapes, I think you will find a use for this method and add to your knowledge base on Photoshop

What to do if you don’t know how to draw either with a pencil or with a computer mouse, but want to create a digital drawing? Today, many people are interested in the question of how to take a photo like a drawing. The answer to this is quite simple: all you need is to carefully study the material provided in this article and apply the knowledge gained in practice.

Let's talk about art

IN old times In order to capture the moment, you needed to have artistic talent and study for a long time, but in our time there is such a thing as photography, so it is not at all necessary to be able to draw. Thanks to modern technology we can create our own little works of art instantly. Well, the presence of all kinds of graphic editors opens up a wide range of possibilities for creativity by drawing and processing photographs and applying various effects.

How can you draw a photo?

There are several different ways how to turn a photo into real drawing. The simplest is to convert photos directly in your browser online. It is clear that all the settings available there are general and cannot be adjusted to each photo. The second, more productive way is to use programs specially created for such purposes. On the Internet there is large number different editors, aimed specifically at turning a photograph into something like a drawing. The number of available settings will be greater, and you will be able to achieve an acceptable result. In the best way is considered to be the use of a graphic editor like PhotoShop (hereinafter referred to as “Photoshop”). In this case, photo editing occurs under your personal control, which means the final product will be optimal.

Of course, you will get the most impressive result by ordering a portrait or landscape from an artist, but our goal is to familiarize ourselves with the editor’s work so that everyone can easily understand how to make a photo as drawn. So we’ll leave the brush work to the artists, and we’ll figure out how Photoshop works. There is nothing complicated in the task at hand: if you carefully read the instructions and follow all the specified steps step by step, then everything will work out easily. The end result will be pleasing to the eye, and you will be able to learn something new.

drawn with a pencil in Photoshop?

There are many things you can do using Photoshop. First, let's look at the simplest way, after which a photograph will turn into black and white drawing pencil.

Working with paints

How to make a photo look like it was drawn with paints? Using a special filter developed by Adobe, which is in free access on the Internet - Pixel Bender. In the Ps6 version it is already preinstalled, and in the Russian version it is called “ Oil paint" and is located in the top menu in the "Filter" column.

This effect looks especially good on photographs of some places: ancient buildings, landscapes and still lifes. You can also apply it to photographs of a person, but the result may be ambiguous.

Using this editing method is even easier than the previous one: you simply open the desired photo, then go to the top menu “Filter - Oil paint...”, after which an additional filter window opens, in which you can immediately see the future result by changing the settings. Two main parameters change - brush properties and lighting. The final picture turns out very beautiful, and most importantly, it seems that it was really painted with brushes and paints.

And finally

As mentioned above, there are many options on how to make a photo look like a drawing, how to create a truly memorable drawing using photo processing. You can achieve the effect of a cartoon, caricature, comic book, painting, sketch. The list can be continued as long as your imagination allows. The possibilities in the environment of graphic editors are almost limitless - you just need to not be afraid to learn. Install PhotoShop, start simple, gradually improve your skills, and you will achieve great results!

Stylized photos are a very popular practice among users social networks. There are a huge number of techniques that allow you to turn an ordinary photo into watercolor drawing, oil painting or a portrait in the style of Van Gogh. In general, there are a lot of variations.

A very common procedure is to create pencil drawings from photographs. At the same time, in order to make a real photo out of it artistic masterpiece, it is not at all necessary to carry out tricky manipulations with it in a graphic editor like . This conversion can be performed directly in the browser - in just a couple of mouse clicks.

There are many web resources that make it easy and simple to turn any photo into a drawing. With the help of some services, you can properly stylize a picture, while other tools also perform collage, placing the picture in a third-party image or frame. We will look at both ways to create a pencil drawing from a photograph using the example of two of the most popular online resources for the corresponding purposes.

Method 1: Pho.to

This portal contains a wide range of functions for editing images directly in the browser window. There is a separate option here for the section "Photo effects", which lets you apply automatic styling to your photos. The effects are divided into categories, of which the service has an impressive number. The style that we need, as you might guess, is in the section "Art".

The result of the service is a high-quality JPG image made in the style of your choice. One of the advantages of the resource can be called great variety effects: variability exists even in the case of a seemingly uniform direction - pencil drawing.

Method 2: PhotoFunia

A popular online service for automatically pasting some images into others using stylization for a specific environment. Pictures here have a whole category of effects, which for the most part place your photo on a third-party object. Among this variety, there are several options for paintings made in pencil.

1. To turn your photo into a drawing, follow the link above and choose one of the corresponding effects. For example, "Pencil drawing"- a simple solution for portrait shots.
   
   
2. To proceed to uploading an image to the service, click "Select photo".
   
   
3. In the pop-up window, use the button "Load from computer" to import a photo from Explorer.
   
   
4. Select the desired area of ​​the image for subsequent stylization as a drawing and click "Crop".
   
   
5. Then select whether the final image will be color or black and white, and select one of the background options - textured, color or white. If necessary, uncheck the item "Fade edges" to remove the effect of fading edges. After this, click on the button "Create".
   
6. The result will not take long to arrive. To save the finished image to your computer, click "Download" in the upper right corner of the page that opens.
   
   

The service allows you to create truly impressive paintings from seemingly unremarkable photographs. According to the developers, the resource processes more than two million images daily and, even with such a load, performs the tasks assigned to it without failures or delays.

Photo stylization is always very busy for beginner (and not so beginner) Photoshoppers. Without much preamble, I will say that in this lesson you will learn how to make a drawing from a photograph in Photoshop.

The lesson does not claim any artistic value, I'll just show you a few techniques that will allow you to achieve the effect of a hand-drawn photo.

One more note. To successfully convert the photo there must be enough large size, since some filters cannot be applied (they can, but the effect is not the same) to small images.

So, open the original photo in the program.

Make a copy of the image by dragging it onto the new layer icon in the layers palette.

Then we desaturate the photo (the layer that we just created) using the keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+U.

Make a copy of this layer (see above), go to the first copy, and remove visibility from the top layer.

Now let's proceed directly to creating the drawing. Go to the menu “Filter – Strokes – Cross Strokes”.

Using the sliders we achieve approximately the same effect as in the screenshot.

Then we go to top layer and turn on its visibility (see above). Go to the menu “Filter – Sketch – Photocopy”.

As with the previous filter, we achieve the effect as in the screenshot.

As a result, we get something like this (remember that the results will only be fully visible at 100% scale):

We continue to create the drawing effect in Photoshop. Create a fingerprint (combined copy) of all layers using a keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+E.

Then go to the menu again "Filter" and select the item “Imitation – Oil Painting”.

The applied effect should not be too strong. Try to save more details. The main starting point is the model's eyes.

We are approaching the completion of the stylization of our photo. As we can see, the colors in the “picture” are too bright and saturated. Let's correct this injustice. Create an adjustment layer "Hue/Saturation".

In the layer properties window that opens, use the slider to tone down the colors. saturation and add a little yellow on the model's skin with a slider color tone.

The final touch is applying the canvas texture. Such textures can be a huge number find on the Internet by typing in search engine corresponding request.

Drag the picture with the texture onto the model image and, if necessary, stretch it to the entire canvas and click ENTER.

Change the blending mode (see above) for the texture layer to "Soft Light".

This is what you should end up with:

If the texture is too pronounced, you can reduce the opacity of this layer.

Unfortunately, the requirements for the size of screenshots on our website will not allow me to show the final result at 100% scale, but even with this resolution it is clear that the result, as they say, is obvious.

This concludes the lesson. You can play with the strength of the effects, the saturation of colors and the application of different textures (for example, you can apply a paper texture instead of a canvas). Good luck in your creativity!