How to apply sketch effect in Photoshop

Here, I will show you how to very easily turn any picture into a sketch in Adobe Photoshop.

I somehow happened to spare myself some time from Trickvilla. Aimlessly surfing on Facebook,  I noticed that I had not updated my profile picture for quite a long time now.

Wondering what to upload next, I opened up my Adobe Photoshop CS5 and gave my current profile pic a new look by “sketching” it, virtually.

Have a look on how to do it:

1. Open up an image in Photoshop
    
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+U to de-saturate it.
    
3. Press Ctrl+J to duplicate your original layer.
    
4. Select your duplicate layer & press Ctrl+I to invert colors of your image.
    
5. Change the color mode of you duplicate layer to color dodge
    
6. Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Keep trying different values for  radius to obtain a better sketch.
   My preferred radius:7.0
   
7. Save your new sketch version of the image.
   

Video Tutorial for Sketch Effect

Author: Ayush Mittal

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Ayush Mittal has written 86 article(s) at TrickVilla. Co-Founder, Admin at TrickVilla, am a tech enthusiast. I am into programming, web-designing and developing.

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Author: Ayush MittalCategories: Featured, Photoshop
Tags: photoshop Last Updated: February 10, 2012