hi there this is invention fixin perfect
and today I'm gonna share with you a
quick and easy way to convert your
photos to a simple sketch in kirusha you
gotta be using the good old ingredients
blend modes blender and filters but you
know what the only thing that makes a
recipe great is the right combination
and what is it let's find out so without
any further ado let's get started this
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Photoshop and if you wanna go ahead and
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description so here we have our surface
image open the surface on which we're
gonna place the pencil sketch so let's
go to our finder or Explorer and drag
and drop in the subject over the canvas
right over the canvas not here over the
canvas now it's time for us to adjust it
let's rotate it a little bit let's make
it a little smaller and place it over
the notebook just like this now it is
time for us to mask out the areas which
you do not want in the pencil sketch
with a subject layer selected click on
the mask button right there
now take the brush make sure the
foreground color is black because black
Heights make the brush a little bigger
with a soft brush just erase the areas
which you do not want I want to decrease
the flow to about 20% because I want to
fade the bottom of the subject just like
that you might as well want to go even
lower to maybe 10% when you're working
on the subject
now when you're not working on the
subject you can always go higher maybe
40% and just erase the areas that you do
not need
now let us adjust the subject again with
a subject layer selected press ctrl or
command D and now let's make it a little
smaller place it right over here that
seems to be nice and this looks alright
now once you are ready with this hit
Enter or return
because we want to have the fading of
the subject have a look here the fading
of the subject needs to be a part of the
filter not just a normal feeding and for
that we need to add a white background
so with the background layer selected
click on the adjustment layer icon and
choose a solid color and choose the
color white now don't worry about it it
will be hidden because we're gonna
change the blend mode to multiply now as
we can see there's a little bit area
left over here so select the subject
mask take the brush black as the
foreground color and just paint black on
it it's fine now we need to select both
the subject and the colorful layer so
select the subject layer hold the ctrl
or command select the color fill layer
right click on it and choose convert to
smart object now it's all 1 now if you
want to access the mask or any of the
properties you can always double click
on the thumbnail a new document will
show up with the mask and everything the
background layer as well and if you want
to change anything change it right here
and go to file save and it will update
the original document I don't to do
anything so I'm just gonna simply close
this down now let's change the blend
mode from normal to multiply because
multiply is the blend mode which darkens
stuff and the blend mode multiply hides
everything which is 100% white have a
look at it it's already giving you a
nice effect now it's time for us to
apply the pencil sketch filter so let's
go to filter filter gallery now inside
of that just make sure there's just one
filter right there if there are more
you're gonna select them and click on
the delete button right there so we're
gonna go under sketch and under sketch
you're gonna find graphic pen and it
automatically gives your image a very
nice sketch effect let's zoom in and
there are valleys that you can control
you can control the stroke length
whatever you want but I'm gonna keep it
at 9 9 works fine for me and light and
dark balance I'm gonna leave it at 57
you can play with it see what works for
your image stroke Direction can be
anything you want you can keep it
horizontal you can keep it left diagonal
let's leave it at right diagonal for
this example and just hit OK it's
wonderful isn't it but if you zoom in
there's one problem when we
sketch with a pen or a pencil on a piece
of paper it's never 100% black so to add
a little bit of realism we need to
include the texture of the paper into
the subject into the sketch and how do
we do that simple blend if so with the
subject layer selected double-click on
the right-hand side of the layer this
opens up the layer Styles dialog box now
take the slider of the underlying layer
from right to left this takes away the
bright areas of the layers which are
underneath it from the current layer but
right now when we take it away it's very
very harsh right so we need to soften it
up a little bit so hold the alt or
option click on the slider to break it
apart and just take it apart as easy as
that and have a look at it the texture
of the paper is showing up in here
pretty nice isn't it you can take it
even further if you want to but I'm
gonna leave it at about 228 that's fine
for this example and hit OK once you're
satisfied also it's too dark on the
left-hand side what to do let's decrease
the opacity so let's set it to about 75%
see how it is maybe 77% let's zoom out
and have a look wow that is much more of
a more realistic but there's again one
more problem if you zoom in have a look
at the sketch it's very sharp we never
do so sharp sketches it's pixel sharp so
we need to add a little bit of a blur to
it and how do we add blur you already
know that go to filter blur and then
Gaussian blur let's add point 4 or 0.5
0.4 is kind of too much blur let's zoom
in it's kind of too much let's go for
0.3 what do you think 0.3 is something
acceptable hit OK and zoom out wow that
is way better now here comes an optional
step you can leave it at that if you
won't do however if you want to take it
a step further if you don't add some
realism to it we need to do something
real so let's create a new layer and in
this layer we're gonna take a realistic
pencil brush and just add some outlines
to the image on the new layer you can
just name it pen so outline zoom into
the image with the brush selected make
sure the foreground color is black and
now change the brush to I'm gonna choose
dry media brushes select the first one
Kyle ultimate then so hard if you are a
CC member you can always download these
brushes for free from
Ruby's website Adobe already comes
pre-loaded with these brushes now what
we have to do just a zoom in and draw
the outlines but if I draw the outlines
in here it's gonna be darker than the
sketch you don't want that to happen so
here is what we do let's go back and
then before you sketch anything hold the
alt or option click on the line between
these two layers pencil outline and the
subject now this is clipped now whenever
you paint something on it it's never
gonna be darker than the subject sketch
so let's zoom in and just simply add
some outlines to it nothing difficult
here
you can increase the flow if you want to
so I'm going to keep the fluid somewhere
about let's try 100 percent let's see
what kind of effect it eals 100 is nice
let's make the brush a little smaller
if you're wondering how did I rotate it
just hold the R key rotated then when
you release the R key it gets back to
the brush if it doesn't get back to the
brush you can always press the B key for
the brush too
you
if you're having difficulties drawing
the lines you can also do this you can
temporarily turn off the Gaussian blur
and the filter gallery and then you can
just follow along and now you can get
back to the pencil outline and then just
draw the outline accordingly
now let's turn on the Gaussian blur and
the filter gallery and see how that
looks
wow that looks wonderful doesn't it now
let's do the other areas which are left
out at the bottom I'm going to turn them
off again to see the lines
get back to the pencil outline layer
I think you don't have to do that so far
so let's take the eraser and erase this
it's kind of too much we don't need it
up to this point I guess up to this
point it's fine
and it's okay now let's take the brush
back again and just draw that as if it
was drawn with a real pencil this is
fantastic
now let's just complete these outlines
now I think it looks pretty okay we can
do a stop at that but you can take all
the time in the world to sketch all the
intricacies of this picture but if you
zoom in have a look at this some of the
lines outside are going outside the page
no problem at all you're gonna select
the subject layer click on the mask
button and take the brush take a soft
brush in the general brush just take a
soft round brush and erase those off
with black as the foreground color you
can just erase them off leave some you
don't have to erase them all just the
ones that are out of the page so erase
them and V are good to go have a look at
this isn't this looking wonderful so
there you go a quick and easy way to
convert your photos to a simple pencil
sketch in Photoshop just a quick little
recap we used two concepts here number
one the blend mode multiply the multiply
blend mode hides everything which is
hundred percent white and only darkens
with the help of the multiply blend mode
we were able to bring the texture of the
paper in the white areas now to bring
the texture in the dark areas we used
blend if the second thing that we used
in here the second major thing was the
graphic pen filter so simply go to
filter gallery and graphic pens do check
out the other filters as well there are
some really cool filters I hope this
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