An 'advanced' ink sketch! Warning: Image Heavy Tut

[epic epiphany]

This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it

 

This tutorial will start at

and give us

Cool, huh? So how do you do it?

Well, first, pick your image and paste it onto an new canvas.

Second, duplicate the layer.

Run the layer through pencil sketch with 1 for pencil tip size, 0 for range.

Now run autolevel until you don't notice a change after running it.

Change the blending mode to additive.

AHHH! What is that? Don't worry... It'll be fixed!

Duplicate the layer.

Set the layer to overlay.

Open Brightness/Contrast and set it to a low setting for both

Flatten

Paste the original image into a new layer

Set the blending mode to multiply

Flatten.

Much better!

The next part is optional, but can enhance the shading on some pictures.

Duplicate the layer

Run pencil sketch at the highest settings (20, 20)

Set the blending mode to multiply

Flatten the image and it should look like this:

Tada! Have fun and post your results!

EDIT: some one said that the same effect is with the ink sketch... not quite. This is the same picture, but with default outline and full color...

Extremely different in my opinion....

[Sarkut]

Nice!

Thanks for the tutorial.

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Edited July 11, 2010 by Sarkut

[ninjajoe56]

That's cool and all but couldn't you have just used the ink sketch plugin for the same effect?

[epic epiphany]

Not for the detail at the same size of the lines... try it for yourself, I, personally, prefer it.

[D3T0N4T0R]

Yeah. I found that the Ink Sketch, even with its thinnest brush, didn't produce as fine a quality as the method shown above. If you want, ninjajoe56, you can even put the two side by side (or look at the two in the tut) and you'll see the difference.

I leave two words as I go off this page.

Awesome

Tutorial.

[epic epiphany]

Yeah. I found that the Ink Sketch, even with its thinnest brush, didn't produce as fine a quality as the method shown above. If you want, ninjajoe56, you can even put the two side by side (or look at the two in the tut) and you'll see the difference.I leave two words as I go off this page.AwesomeTutorial.

awww thanks

[Lady0Deadpool]

Love this tut. It made a beautiful picture even more so. Definitely going to have to try this one out.

[AGJM]

Okay, I took this photo last summer in Scotland. Its right down the hill from Sterling Castle, next to the small cathedral.

Here is the result with the tutorial:

I used ink sketch to tell the difference, and the tutorial worked better.

I would post the ink sketch one, but my internet is going in and out. Sorry.

Thanks for the tutorial though!

Edited July 23, 2011 by AGJM

[jim100361]

Here's my go at it with a NY @ Nightime pic:

[doughty]

Vista wallpaper before:

After:

I really like how this inking brings out detail. Thanks for the tut.

 

Edit: Organizing PB.

Edited September 7, 2013 by doughty

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Not to take anything away from epic-epiphany and this wonderful tutorial, but these results seem to resemble what this plugin Laplacian Pyramid does.

I wonder if anyone would take the time to do a little comparison?

[doughty]

EER, thanks for the tip. I'm (almost) always willing to try a new pug-in,

but I'm always willing to mess with a new picture.

I don't think the Laplacian Pyramid plug-in compares with this tut or with the regular ink plug-in at all.
Here is my try with the same image as above:

I tried getting the shadows darker, but the whole image just got grittier looking and the colors started fading out.

 

Edit: Organizing PB.

 

I've got a little more experience with this plugin now, I'll have to try this again. Someday...

Edited September 7, 2013 by doughty

[butterfly8000]

this is the after and the before ty for the lessons