convert photo to line drawing

[Rick Wise]

Got it, Sarah. Thanks!

Rick Wise
director of photography
and custom lighting design
Oakland, CA
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com

[Rick Wise]

Sarah, I have the demo working. But nothing comes close to what I can do with my somewhat lengthy method to get a clean line drawing that includes some of the architectural details. Wish it did! If you like, I can email you the original photo, and my “line drawing” version.

Thanks for the suggestion. The lens corrector filter looks like it might be very useful to correct wide-angle shots that bow out in the middle.

Rick Wise
director of photography
and custom lighting design
Oakland, CA
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com

[Sarah Grace]

email me the samples and let me see what i come up with…
(i do image corrections all day every day- i used tow ork for a location souting service in maimi and got my chops fixing those photos)

have you seen the topaz labs filters?
https://topazlabs.com/

cheers
bunny grace
AKA madbadcat
madbadcat.org
digitalapplejuice.com

[Rick Wise]

Send me your email address. I’m at: rickwise@comcast.net.

Rick Wise
director of photography
and custom lighting design
Oakland, CA
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com

[Rick Wise]

Send me your email address. I’m at: rickwise@comcast.net.

Rick Wise
director of photography
and custom lighting design
Oakland, CA
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com

[David Radovanovic]

Here’s another helpful tutorial of how to convert an image/photo to line drawing. Thanks.

https://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials/tut011.htm

[James Roberts]

This seems like an old post now but I was trying to convert a photo to line drawing and thought I would share my 2 cents, might be useful to someone in 2013!

Doing all manually in photoshop took to long for me as I had 20+ images I needed to do. After some searching I found this site convert a photo to line drawing .com. Uploaded my images and it gave me a zip file with them all converted in, I had to touch up a couple as they had some trees in the background that came out a little strange but on the whole was simple.

In photoshop I did it a bit different from Rick and found it worked better to replace everything up to guassian blur with this:
Duplicate layer
Set top layer color mode to be colour dodge
Do gaussian
Then reduce saturation to 0
Then clean up as described.

Took a long time doing manual clean ups and clicking on all the settings, does anyone know how you can automate this so it can just be a single action?

Cheers,

James

[Emm Brier]

after years of playing round with photoshop filters, then using the akvis sketch plugin or alien skin snap art, i found i get the best results with an app called SketchMee
its cheap & fast and it makes it possible to increase the size of an image from web sized to soemthign printable.
check it out
https://studiomee.com/product_sketchmee_mac_normal.html

[Rick Wise]

Update 7/14: I’ve found Topaz Simplify does a pretty good job. Add a white layer below the treated one and erase any remaining visual noise.

Rick Wise
Cinematographer
MFA/BFA Lighting and Camera Instructor Academy of Art University
San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.RickWiseDP.com