This is pretty impressive...

http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/pencil_sketch/index.html

Thank you Danny!

Thanks for the link Danny :bow: It does look really interesting, will have a better look when i get time hopefully pretty soon, think i will have to have a holiday from retouch to catch up on all the ideas here lately :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Hi I'm pretty new here, but not too new at Photoshop. I've tried my share of Photo-to-Art techniques, particularly sketch actions. But I have to admit that this one: http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/pencil_sketch/pencil_sketch.html
is truly one of the best, you get a real sketch effect because in essence, you literally are sketching. Has anyone tried this here? I've been using this technique with great success, I'll try to post some sketches soon.

Oh sorry, that was the 2nd page of the tutorial, here it is starting from page 1.

http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/pencil_sketch/index.html

Okay a sketch using the technique I mentioned above. The color photo (extracted) and then the pencil sketch.

Hi I'm pretty new here, but not too new at Photoshop. I've tried my share of Photo-to-Art techniques, particularly sketch actions. But I have to admit that this one: http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/pencil_sketch/pencil_sketch.html
is truly one of the best, you get a real sketch effect because in essence, you literally are sketching. Has anyone tried this here? I've been using this technique with great success, I'll try to post some sketches soon.Welcome to RetouchPRO. Nice to have another sketch-look enthusiast join us.

Thanks for sharing the link to Tim's tutorial and uploading an example of your work. (I've merged your posts with a thread on this tutorial to keep things together.)

This is indeed an interesting technique. I tried it a couple years ago and like most methods one can get good results with practice, patience and on the right image.

If you have more examples using this method, I'd like to see them. In the mean time I hope you join in on some of the other photo-art threads.

Just wanted to add: the book this tutorial is from, "Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook", has watercolor and an oil painting tutorials that are equally good. The book is out of print, but you can probably pick it up used on Amazon.

edit: just found a link to the oil painting tutorial here (http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/index.cfm?featureid=1528) andhere (http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/index.cfm?featureid=1529)