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Now this tutorial teaches you how to convert a photograph to a pencil sketch!!!




the above image will be changed to the pencil sketch shown below!!!



now lets start the tutorial!!!

Step 1:

Open the Photoshop Application and open your desired picture which you want to change into a pencil sketch.

Step 2:

Now create a duplicate of the existing layer(background layer) and Invert(ctrl+i) the duplicate layer.

Step 3:

Now desaturate both the layers(shift+ctrl+u).At this moment your picture should look similar to this!!!!




Step 4:

After this change the blending mode of the top layer to Color Dodge.
Then use Gaussian Blur and set the radius accordingly so that it looks like a pencil sketch.I used radius as 2.3 pixels.

After this your picture should look like this!!!!