Now. I’m going to show you a faster and easier way to do it. This document is approximately six and a half by nine and a half inches one.
with a resolution of 150 pixels per inch open a photo and make a copy of it by pressing Ctrl J On a PC or command J on a Mac.
Click on the adjustment late. Your button and choose hue/saturation.
Click on the adjustment layer button and choose hue/saturation reduce the saturation – 100
Click on the thumbnail of layer. One
To make it active and change the blend mode to color Dodge
Invert it by pressing Ctrl or command I
At this point your image should look white. Go to filter, Blur and Gaussian blur
Slide the radius to an amount that looks good to you. Your image should have the look and feel more of a pencil drawing than a photograph to make the overall look denser. Click on the adjustment layer button again, and this time choose level.
Slide the input dogs to the right Until the face is just the right amount of density.
If other areas are too dense, like the dress in this example open your brush tool.
Make the brush size relatively large the hardness 0% . And the opacity 40%
Make sure the foreground color is black and then brush over areas you’d like to make less dense.
To clean up some areas make a composite snapshot by. Pressing Ctrl shift Alt key or E on a PC.
Tall t on a PC or command shift option key on a Mac. Invert the foreground
And and background Colors by clicking on the curved double-arrow icon or by pressing X on your keyboard.
Make the brush size small to medium and the opacity a hundred percent now simply brush over the areas you want to clean up.
Using these quick simple techniques you can transform any photo into a beautiful pencil drawing.