Converting a photograph into a drawing. How to Make a Realistic Painting Effect in Photoshop

Often, users want to learn how to make a drawing from a photo so that they can later print the photo and store it as a drawing. Let's look at the most effective ways.

First, let's look at several popular services with which you can quickly create a drawing effect on a photo without installing additional software on computer.

Photo Phunia service

On this site, users can take advantage of an automatic effect that transforms an ordinary picture into a drawing. You can also select the background texture of the source file: colored, white or “special”.

To get started, select the file on your PC. To do this, click on the Browse button on the website.

Then determine color scheme images (black and white or color).

Click on the texture shape you want to output and click on the "Create" button to begin the file conversion process.

In a few seconds, a direct link to download the image from the site will be generated.

Croper service

The next popular site for creating a drawing from an ordinary picture is Croper. This online photo editor allows you to apply additional effects to your photos.

With its help, you can create a unique image without losing quality.

One of the most popular features of this site is the pencil drawing feature.

The file is converted by creating darker tones of the image, then strokes are gradually applied to the layers of the image, which, in turn, make a sketch from the image.

The editor interface is very simple. Upload the file to the site by clicking on the appropriate button.

The picture will open in a new window on the site. After that, find the main menu tabs - they are located at the top of the site. Click in turn on “Operations” - “Effects” - “Pencil”.

At the top of the page, select the stroke length settings and tilt level.

Then click on the Apply button to start the image conversion process.

This will take no more than one minute. If necessary, you can adjust the contrast of the final drawing.

The result of Croper's work is shown in the figure below.

Creating a drawing in Adobe Photoshop

Using Photoshop, you can also create a pencil drawing from an ordinary picture.

Using the built-in functions of the program, you can achieve better display of all strokes and the final picture will look natural.

The effect of the drawing will be very clearly visible if you print it on a printer. For greater effect, you can use white or craft paper.

All the steps below are done in Photoshop program CS6. The functions used are available in earlier and all new versions of the application.

We will use a regular scanned photo; We recommend not using small pictures when working in Photoshop, because after applying the “picture” effect, some of the pixels may be blurred, which will degrade the quality of the final small image.

First we need to copy the original image.

To do this, open the image in the program, wait for the toolbar to load and press the F7 button. Then click on the Ctrl - J button combination. This way you will create a duplicate layer.

To do this, click on the Image item (main menu of the program). Click on “Correction” – “Inversion”. Also, to apply desaturation to a layer, just press the Ctrl and I keys simultaneously.

As a result of decolorization, we will get a negative image, and not its black and white version. All light areas of the photo will become dark, and all dark areas will become light.

In the layers panel, the resulting negative will be displayed as a second copy of the original layer. Next, let's change the layer's display mode. Click on layer 2 and in the “Mode” line open the drop-down list. Click on "Background Lightening".

After changing the mode, the project canvas will become completely or partially white. On the main menu bar, click “Filter” - “Blur”.

From the list provided, select “Gaussian Blur.” In the window that opens, adjust the slider to create the blur level.

The higher the value of this indicator, the lighter the picture becomes, taking on the outline of a drawn one.

Important! Don't overdo the blur filter, otherwise the photo may become too light and the pencil effect will be lost. The optimal blur value is 12.5 – 13 pixels.

This decolorization method allows you to achieve maximum clarity of the strokes of the picture, pixels are not lost, and the resolution of the picture is maintained. As you can see, the picture has acquired the outline of a pencil, but has not become too light.

Go to the layers window and select the very first layer, as shown in the image below. Then move the pointer to the layer name and wait for the context menu to appear. In it, click on the “Merge Visible Layers” item. Hold down the Alt button and use the pointer to select all three layers that you want to merge.

Select the topmost layer (layer 1). You need to change its display mode to “Multiplication”. This allows you to darken each line of the sketch, giving the sketch more naturalness.

The lines should not be too dark. If this happens, adjust the Opacity parameter to 50%. It is necessary that the color of a “simple” pencil be preserved.

You can finish the job here. As a result, we get a black and white sketch of the original photograph. If you want to add some color to your sketch, create a copy of the background layer by pressing Ctrl - J.

Now we only need to change the display color parameters of the duplicated layer. Select the “Color” mode and in the Transparency line set the value to 65%, as shown in the figure above.

The final result of converting the image to a thumbnail will look like this:

Creating a drawing from an ordinary photograph in Photoshop will take you no more than 10 minutes, even if you are not an advanced user.

Good day, dear readers my blog. Drawing self made. About 15 years ago, no one would have thought of such a phrase, but now - please. Modern technologies have reached such a level that anyone can get their portrait in any artistic style whatever he wants.

Today I will do a short review of services that allow you to take a photo like a pencil drawing online. A huge number of techniques: animation, stylization, collaging, insertion. More than 3,000 effects: impressionism, Van Gogh style, automatic retouching, watercolor drawings, pastel, oil paint, chalk.

The result will not take long to arrive. You will learn about the best ways photo editing.

Benefits for the webmaster

It may seem strange to many to have such an article on a blog about website creation. Very in vain. Well, firstly, a picture processed by a similar method can be used as a design element: a header, background, or even a thumbnail of an article or a picture in the body of a publication.

However, I must tell you right away that if you like one of the techniques and want to process all the photos this way and post them on your blog, then the idea will be wonderful. However, do not forget about copyright.

Don't think that after this she will belong to you. No matter how much manipulation you do with a picture, it belongs to the photographer or artist who created it.

Read the article about. Although search engines define such content as unique.

So, if you take a photo from a free source, process it in a photo editor, and post it on your blog, then Yandex and Google will think that you are doing a great job and using your unique materials. At the same time, you are not afraid of any persecution. Everyone is happy and satisfied. These steps will take you no more than a couple of minutes.

But that's not all the benefits. Developers are people too. We all have friends and sometimes they celebrate birthdays, weddings, new years and so on. The portrait can be printed in large format and framed. You will spend several times less money than if you ordered a drawing from an artist. In any case, the result will exceed all expectations.

Well, now I think everything is clear. Let's move on to the review of services.

Services overview

To write this article, I analyzed many resources. Most of them turned out to be inconvenient. Somewhere the loading is constantly lagging or the result is below average. I left only three resources on the list. Moreover, I will say right away that I recognize only one as truly worthwhile.

I won’t waste any more of your time and will proceed with a detailed review.

Photofacefun

Website www.photofacefun.com quite nice and completely free. Here you will find over 1,400 options for your photography.

If you want to turn a picture into a drawing, then go straight to the section of the same name and look at the options. For example, the third one, pencil drawing. Click on it.

Uploading the file. By the way, you don’t have to upload the same photo every time. It will be saved on the server and you will have quick access to it until you leave the portal.

You need to crop the picture so that it fits into the collage.

Ready. I got this result.

As you can see, they basically offer to insert your portrait into some beautiful picture or make a collage. This is, of course, great. There's a bunch here interesting examples, the result is almost always pleasing. But this is not exactly what we would like.

If you just insert your photo and get exactly the same one, but in a different style, then this resource will not suit you. Nevertheless, let's try another option: a pencil drawing on the same page.

As promised, you have quick access to the last downloaded one.

It's hard not to agree that the picture is cool. No logos, watermarks, etc. The service is completely free.

But I’ll tell you right away, there are better ones. This is what we will talk about now.

Pho.to

Portal funny.pho.to/ru/ can really be funny. I've already come here twice and every time I can't help but laugh and smile contentedly. This resource is awesome. More than 600 frames, effects and filters. In addition, fast automatic retouching of portraits, creation gif animation based on your photo and quick correction.

Go to “Drawings and Paintings” or “Selected Drawing Effects”. I advise you to try both categories, as there is a huge selection of pencil drawings.

Here you will be offered pencil sketches or ballpoint pen, pastel, oil paints, Van Gogh drawing effect, impressionism and much more. Try it and enjoy.

Upload photos from your computer and have quick access to them for a while at the bottom of the panel.

This is the result I got. The only downside is the link at the bottom of the photo.

I was immediately interested in cartoons. It's really fun! You load a photo from the disk and on the right side you begin to change your emotions.

In my opinion it is realistic and funny.

You can remove the cartoon effect and send it to friends on social networks instead of emoticons.

I would also call face retouching a useful feature. You simply insert a photo and wait for processing to complete.

If you go to effects, you can replace the background, add color effects or lighting, and also stylize the picture.

In my opinion, this is the best resource on the Internet, but you also have another way to turn a photo into a pencil portrait.

Photophania

The good thing about the service is that you won’t have any additional logos added. The portal is free. But nevertheless, it has a lot of flaws. For example, I haven’t been able to log in for a couple of days now. home page, some effects do not work, categories do not open. In general, the site still needs work.

It is likely that these are temporary difficulties and by the time you want to create your portrait the situation will change. However, I will leave you with a direct link to creation page pencil drawing . I had no problems with this filter.

Upload a photo from your computer.

Trim it.

This is the result I got. Can be downloaded.

Photoshop in three steps

In fact, drawing with a pencil is not such a difficult task even for Photoshop. Watch this video. Here we show you how to create your masterpiece in just three minutes. By the way, the video is very cool. I can’t help but note the author’s work.

Online services are, of course, simple and fast, but they limit you. It's good to sit for a couple of minutes and laugh at the funny results, but thanks to them you won't get far.

Working in Photoshop yourself is much more interesting. Projects turn out much better. You see what you are doing. You can adjust it based on the specifics of a particular photo and you will probably move on. Photoshop won't keep you busy for just a couple of minutes. You will want to work with him, develop, improve your skills.

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Exist 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. A small value - about 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 is the key to creating the brush stroke effect.

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

There are many ways you can use Photoshop to turn an ordinary color photograph into a pencil drawing. Let's look at the simplest and quick way with some notes of cartoon-comic effect.

By the way, this technique can be used to turn vector clipart into pictures, which you can then give to your children so that they learn how to color them! Or use it for commercial purposes to create coloring books :) In general, now you will see everything for yourself.

Step 1

Open the donor photo.

Step 2

Now you need to apply the filter. Run the following command: Filter - Blur - Smart Blur.

Step 3

A dialog box with filter settings will appear. Required first from the drop down list Mode choose Edges only. Then work with the sliders Radius And Threshold. You need to achieve an effect in which the image contains the maximum of necessary details, but you should not overload the image, otherwise you will end up with a tasteless heap.

The result will be an image like this:

Step 4

Let's get rid of the black color by executing the command - Ctrl+I.

Step 5

The edges look unkempt. Let's make them smoother and add a cartoon effect, kids love this very much. To do this, select Filter - Imitation - Applique.

The following window will open:

(Click to enlarge)

Here you need to configure two parameters: Simplicity of the edges And Edge clarity to adjust the thickness and quality of stroke lines.

Step 6

Let's apply a filter and see how a pencil drawing is turned out from a color photograph:

note that Application added gray shade For white. It can be removed if desired. To do this, go to the tool options bar and uncheck Adjacent pixels. By clicking the mouse anywhere, the entire gray background will be removed.

I'll also take and erase the extra lines. The result was this:

If you notice an error in the text, select it and press Ctrl + Enter. Thank you!

Stylized photos are a very popular practice among users social networks. Available great amount techniques that allow you to turn an ordinary photograph into a watercolor painting, 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 is the wide variety of 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. Eg, "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 "Upload 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.