Have to visit DPR's site to see Bruce's rendering (http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=17295139). He share's an action (http://www.inframe.co.uk/highkey.zip) that really has some oomph for creating this form of rendering. Just had to share. :)

Glad you posted this link Ikroll I saw it yesterday at dpr and had a go ( well still playing with the action actualy) It is well worth the effort of looking at and trying.

Palms

Makes pencils sketches much easier and realistic. Hope you all think so too. :)

I too have been messing around with this action, and it has gone to top of my favorite list. Here is a couple i have done ( photo from another thread)
first one the action straight, the second one using usm to get a sketchy feel

Ikroll good technique and cute boy !

Palms

The little boy is my nephew; tooks this one last Easter. :D

Palms, your rendition is very nice.
Lkroll, yours is excellent too. Mind telling us which impressions style you used?
Alan

Palms, your rendition is very nice.
Lkroll, yours is excellent too. Mind telling us which impressions style you used?
Alan

I then desaturated of course. That's what required both selective erasing and some smudging afterwards. Still have to do too much hand-retouching, but I can not get the look that I want otherwise. I won't give up in trying to get the computer to do all the work though. You all know that. :)

Another method you can try -

Add a black to white gradient layer and adjust the white slider to produce the High Key effect.

Merge to a new layer, duplicate this layer, layer mode to colour dodge,invert and gaussian blur until a very very faint outline shows. On 300ppi image I used 4.5 pix.

Merge to new layer and run apply image in multiply mode until you get the desired result.

This can give a sketch with much finer lines.

Christine

Another method you can try -

Add a black to white gradient layer and adjust the white slider to produce the High Key effect.

Merge to a new layer, duplicate this layer, layer mode to colour dodge,invert and gaussian blur until a very very faint outline shows. On 300ppi image I used 4.5 pix.

Merge to new layer and run apply image in multiply mode until you get the desired result.

This can give a sketch with much finer lines.

Christine

That's cool Xaran. I also use my own method that I outlined here (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?p=115089#post115089) (you all know I like using filters). I usually use GIMP to do this (with Script-fus), but this time I did it PS using Flaming Pear's Tachyon filter and layer properties. :)