how to turn a photo into pencil sketch – Photoshop tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to turn a photo into sketch.

Download stock used in the tutorial from this link: Click me to download stock

Preview of the final result:

Video Walk through

Step1: After you finish downloading the stock, import it into you Photoshop document. Now with the background layer selected, click on Image menu –> Adjustment –> Desaturate

Step2: Now create a duplicate layer. Right click on the background layer --> click on 'Create duplicate layer'

Step3: Now with the second layer selected, go to Image menu --> Adjustment --> Invert You will see the output as shown in the figure and then set its blend mode to color dodge.

Step4: Now go to Filter --> Blur --> Gaussian Blur Set radius pixel to 20.5px. You will see the output as shown in the figure below:

Step5: Now we are almost done. The only thing left is to apply burn tool to some portions of face and body. Click on Burn Tool Range = Shadow Exposure = 33% Brush size = 30 px Now apply the burn tool to highlighted portions as shown in the figure below

So here is the final result:

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