Pencil Sketch Filter?

[MonkeySpanker]

I am wondering if there is a filter or technique available that will allow me to turn a portrait photograph into a fake pencil drawing, as a colleague of mine recently bought one of these drawings for £80.00, and I wanted to prove to him that its possible in photoshop!

Anyone tried this?

[Thee_DarkOverLord]

Try playing arround with the artistic and brush stroke filters.

[ID. Awe]

Also duplicate the image, apply filters and use layer transparency.

[MonkeySpanker]

2 good ideas, thanks!!

[JasonSmith]

You could also try different sketch filters/settings on each channel.

[barry gray]

This been around awhile-not mine
Desat
dup. layer
invert
Set layer to dodge-image should be white
G. blurr

[Rafael Aviles]

There are several filters that do a very good job of this at the Adobe
Expert Center or Adobe Studio action exchange:

[url]http://share.studio.adobe.com/axAssetDetailSubmit.asp?aID=7547&back=http%3A%2F%2 Fshare%2Estudio%2Eadobe%2Ecom%2FDefault%2Easp[/url]

(you may have to register to be able to access these. It is free)

[MonkeySpanker]

This is great, overwhelming response, I will give these filters a try right now.

Thanks!!

[Unregistered]

Easiest way is to desaturate your first image. duplicate the layer. Inverse the duplicated selection. Set the duplicate layer to colour dodge. this will give you a pure white layer. go to filtler blur gaussian blur and play with the slider. 30 secs when you get the hang of it.