Pencil Sketch
Open a Photo or Image you want to use
Shift D to copy close original
Layer Palette / Right click and Duplicate once
Top Layer Active
Adjust / Hue and
Saturation / Hue Saturation Lightness Settings: Only Change the Saturation from
0 to -100 / ok
Layer Palette / Right click and duplicate the top layer once
Still on top layer
Layers / New Adjustment layer / invert / ok
Do not change any of the settings
Layers / Merge / Merge Down
Layers / Properties / Change Blend Mode to Dodge / ok
your layer now looks like a white page with a few black bits
Adjust / Blur /Blur More keep repeating this step until you
are satisfied with the result
Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen
Layers / Merge / Merge all Flatten
Now you have your pencil drawing
Resize it if you want to
(Optional this depends on what image or photo you use)
You could go to layers / Promote to Background layer
Tools /Freehand Selection (Lasso) tool use your own settings draw around your image
to
select ants
Selections / Invert
Press Delete on your keyboard to remove background
Layers / Merge / Merge all flatten
This is the Optional Way
Now to save
File / save as give it a name
Save type as png ,
jpeg anything you like
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