coloured pencil drawing

[panthergirl]

This is how I did the sketchy look on the humpty dumpty photo. Before I got to that though I'd already done a lot of blending options on dozens of layers. So as with any photo manipulations you do, you're going to get a different look with different photos. Bla bla bla. So. Oh yeah and I use PSE4.

Make a copy of your background layer and apply the coloured pencil filter. You have to push the paper brightness slider all the way to 50. Try settings of width 12, pressure 12, brightness 50. Mess with the first two but not too much with the third.

Make another copy of your background layer and move it to the top. Apply the glowing edges filter. Try settings of width 1, brightness 18, smoothness 11 - Invert the layer (ctrl + I). Then desaturate the layer (Ctrl + shift + U). Change blend mode to soft light. Now I didn't desaturate the layer when I did humpty. I liked it better left as it was. Sometimes I do desaturate the layer. Then I do another layer and do not desaturate it, then mess with the blend modes.

Make another copy of the background and move it to the top. Change the blend mode to Hard Light.

I change the blending modes a lot until I get what I like.

Thats it. This came from a book called PSE4 gone wild. I took the recipe then messed it up.

[NaughtsNCrosses]

Hey, Cat - thanks for the recipe. :) You do some amazing stuff, and now you've let us in on one of those trade secrets. Thanks! :)

[Pixeldigger]

Thank you very much, I will enjoy playing with this.

[Diginellie]

This is great - one important thing to remember with PSE4 is that when you are using a filter it matches the colours in the tool bar and not on the image. So you have to use your eyedropper and choose 2 suitable colours from the image before applying the filter.

Possibly everyone knows this but it isn't obvious and took me a couple of years to figure out, Photoshop just isn't logical. Anyway it does make a real difference, I used to wonder why the filters always looked so bad and stopped using them until I saw a tip somewhere and figured it out :o

[panthergirl]

lol - I didn't know that but it sure does explain something I was wondering about.