Change Color Photo to Line Drawing

[Joy Kessler]

Does PE2 have a way to take a color photograph and convert it to a black and white line drawinG?

[Nancy S]

Joy,

Yes, experiment with all the filters. Particularly look under the Sketch offerings. Most are self explanatory as to what effect they create.

[Nancy S]

Joy,

Try this:

On a flattened copy of an image...

Filter>Blur>Smart Blur
* radius 20
* threshold=25
* quality=high
* mode=edge only

OK this. Then go to
Image (or it might be Edit) > Adjustments > Invert

And there it is! You can select different parameters of course and play with the many other filters in the program, combining several if desired.

[Bernard Saper]

Yes you can do this directly. Convert the image to grayscale and then
choose filter>stylize>find edges. The effect is very dramatic. This
procedure works particularly well where the image contains strong lines, as
in architectural photos.


"Joy Kessler" <jkessler@mtco.com> wrote in message
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> Does PE2 have a way to take a color photograph and convert it to a black

and white line drawinG?

[Paul L UK]

Another way, depending on image:-
open image;
layer>duplicate layer;
desaturate (ctrl+shift+U);
layer>duplicate layer;
invert (ctrl+I);
change blending mode to colour dodge.
Should now have an all white screen/image.

Normal next is gaussian blur, varying the slider to get the best effect, but a lot of other filters can be used, have a play.

Paul

[Ray]

Another to do this :

Open your image, make a duplicate layer (in case something goes wrong)
Filter / Blur / Smart Blur, for the Mode, select Edges Only. Adjust the settings to your needs
Image / Adjust / Invert

Voilà!

Ray