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Patches is my 14 year old cat. I am posting the small image in this thread, but the larger image at the link below shows much more detail. After I sketched the image I gave it a little buzz...
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I love it Lynda - great detail in the fur!!
Can you expand a bit on "sketched the image then gave it a little buzz"? Do you mean that you used a sketch technique (like Trimoon's) with color - and then ran the Buzz Pro filter?
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Jeanie,
I was going to post a link to my sketch tutorial, but I did things a little different this time. I used a Motion Blur instead of the Gaussian Blur. I also added the info on the buzz.
To Make a Color Sketch:
1. Get your image ready - unsharp mask, curves, levels, what ever is necessary to have a good image
2. Create duplicate layer
3. Image/Adjustments/Invert
4. Mode/Grayscale - don't flatten
5. Mode/RGB – don’t flatten
6. Image/Adjustments/Invert
7. Image/Adjustments/Levels – add highlights by sliding the white arrow to the left. .
8. Image/Adjustments/Brightness-Contrast – you want to take the contrast slider to the minus usually between -10 and -30.
9. Create duplicate layer
10. Image/Adjustments/Invert
11. Blending Mode colors dodge – should be all white, if not go back to step 8 and take the contrast down a little more.
12. Filter/Blur/Motion Blur – adjust so you can see as much detail as you desire.
13. Flatten image
14. Image/Adjustments/Levels – Use to bring out detail.
15. Image/Adjustments/Brightness-Contrast – Adjust to your liking.
16. Save
17. Select/All
18. Edit/Copy
19. Open original image.
20. Edit/Paste
21. Change the opacity in the layers palette. You want to see just a hint of color.
22. Flatten
23. Filter/buzz/ - add Simplifier One twice – set first at Remove - 1200, Both and set the second at Remove – 600, Both.
24. SaveComment
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THANKS for the detailed explanation Lynda!
JeanieComment
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Glad to do it, Jeanie.
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Great results, super detail, Lynda.
I'll be referrring to your variation in a future update of the newly created photo-art basics "Pencil Sketch" thread.
This is like a Christmas present -- after Christmas. And think: No shopping!Comment
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I have been toying with taking a portrait and turning it into a realistic pencil like sketch. I have tried the technique with smart blur and find edges, poster edge etc., but I'm still not thrilled with the result. I found a nice tutorial using another method I thought I would share with you:
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[Scroll down a ways... Lynda spells out her step-by-step method a few posts down. - DannyR]
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Meet my Granddaughter, Hope.
sketch
emboss
overlay
sepia
If there is anyone that needs to know...10-11-2002, 07:09 AM -
I made this to be a xmas present for my friends. I used buzz to get the simplified colors. I made a sketch using the invert>linear dodge>gausian blur method. Then I stamped the visible image and ran filter>brushstrokes>crosshatch on that. Then I ran buzz to get the simplified colors and...12-07-2002, 05:05 PM -
In retrospect this probably should have been the FIRST of the basic skills series because it is such a frequently used photo-art technique. In addition it is among the few that can be converted to a Photoshop action that doesn't render the original image into something that looks like a three-year-old...Strongly agree12Agree5Somewhat agree1Somewhat disagree0Disagree0Sorry, but I did not find it useful at all.012-29-2002, 01:21 AM
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Before things got pruned in the big move, I'd printed out tons of how-to's from the site. I found a palette shot that wasn't attached to any directions and decided to see how much of it I could figure out for fun. I think I got most of it, but I did make a few changes where I coudln't guess right....07-19-2003, 12:10 PM
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