Photoshop Tutorial
Oct 26
Incredibly Simple Sketch Effect
This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create an extremely simple sketch effect. You can apply this effect to any digital image. The greatest thing about this effect is its simplicity.
The image used in the tutorial was provided by elisafox from Deviantart. You can download the starting image here
Step 1: Preparation
Open the image to which you want to apply the sketch effect. Duplicate the layer by pressing ctrl (command) + j on the keyboard. Select image > adjustments > desaturate from the menu. Duplicate this layer by pressing ctrl (command) + j on the keyboard. Invert the layer by pressing ctrl (command) + i on the keyboard. Set the blend mode to color dodge.
Select filter > other > minimum from the menu, and set the radius to 1 or 2 pixels. The larger the radius the darker the lines will be.
You can now add color by simply duplicating your original image layer by selecting it in the layers palette, then pressing ctrl (command) + j on the keyboard. Move the duplicate to the top of the layer stack, and set the blend mode to color.
That's all there is to it.
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I thank you for your excellent tutorial. The first few steps are identical to those on pp 24-25 of Scott Kelby’s “Photoshop CS Down and Dirty Tricks,” but they deviate when you go to Filter-Other-Minimum, at which point Kelby goes to Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blur. He then uses the History brush to restore some color, but I found your method much simpler and better. What I did for my own purposes, in writing this out as a tutorial for my own future use, is to add in an Edit-Fade step to possibly reduce the intensity of the color added by your last step. Another addition was to add a Hue-Adjustment Layer after your last step, so that I could play with the three sliders get some other creative effects. Finally, I added something from the Scott Kelby method, whjich was to merge all the layers and then go to Filter-Texture-Texturizer, and selected Canvas as the texture, and then played with the other parameters to get an effect I liked. But I noted that these were all optional steps, and the tutorial, as you wrote it, does the job beautifully and simply, so thanks again.
November 24th, 2006 at 11:14 amHi Goldilocks,
I’m glad you found the tutorial to be useful. The first few steps I use anytime I want to get a certain area within an image to separate itself from the rest of the image. I often use levels or other means to do this, but it is a very useful technique. It sounds like you have an experimental persona, and I think that is probably the best way to learn Photoshop. If you try every possibility you’ll eventually learn everything possible.
Thank you for your great comments.
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