Converting a noisy/grainy image to a "sketch"

[Ron Hirsch]

I took a 35 film image from one of my family to attempt to salvage what I
could from it. The image is from a picture where the flash did not fire, and
it is at least 6 stops underexposed! Casually looking at the film strip, it
looks like a blank frame.

The "drugstore" print amazingly showed some vague details in a print which
was pretty bad. I scanned the neg, and played for a while in Photoshop 7, as
the shot was a very good frame of 2 people, had it been properly exposed. I
did manage to do much better than the "drugstore" print, but the image is
very noisy and grainy.

I was wondering if I could get something more usable if I converted to a B/W
image, and then possibly converted that to a sketch/drawing.

Can anyone point me to a tutorial which covers making a "pencil sketch" from
a photo image?

Ron Hirsch

[Ol' Whozit]

A search on any search engine will point you to such tutorials, as will a similar search through Adobe threads. It is a subject that comes up regularly.

[dave milbut]

try looking at the channels to see if any are salvagable. then gaus blurring the damaged may help if it's only one bad channel. or channel mixer & bluring might also help...

[Burton Ogden]

Ron,

Have you explored here?

<http://www.retouchpro.com/>

-- Burton --