Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

Create a digital PEN-AND-INK DRAWING
You can create the look of a pen-and-ink drawing
from a photograph using a variety of methods in
Photoshop. Often the method you use depends on the
subject matter of the original. Photoshop includes
many filters such as Find Edges, which finds areas of
contrast and outlines them; however, the filter
applies the colors in the image to the edges. By
changing a duplicated layer to high-contrast grayscale
first and then applying the Smart Blur filter in the
Edges Only mode, you get a black image with white
lines. You can then invert the image to get black lines
on a white background. Depending on the look that
you want, you can apply a filter such as Other ➪
Minimum using a 1-pixel radius to thicken the lines.
Often, the artistic effects do not work well on a large
image. If your art project seems too photographic,
click File ➪ Revert, and then click Image ➪ Image
Size to reduce the image size before applying the
filters. You can also reduce the amount of detail with
a Median or noise reduction filter, before applying
Photoshop filters to achieve artistic-looking results.
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1 Click Filter ➪ Noise ➪ Median.
2 In the Median dialog box, click
and drag the radius to 1 or 2,
depending on the size of the
image, to remove some detail.
3 Click OK.
4 Press Ô+J (Ctrl+J) to duplicate the
Background layer.
5 Click the Black & White
Adjustment button.
6 In the Properties panel, click the
Preset drop-down menu and
select a preset such as Infrared to
get a high-contrast grayscale
image.
7 Press Ô+E (Ctrl+E) to merge the
adjustment layer with Layer 1.
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8 Click Filter ➪ Blur ➪ Smart Blur.
9 In the Smart Blur dialog box, click
the Quality drop-down menu and
select High.
0 Click the Mode drop-down menu
and select Edge Only.
! Click and drag the Radius and
Threshold sliders to see white
outlines of the main features of
your image.
@ Click OK.
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