Credible pencil portraits

I don’t tend to use filters, but have always liked to experiment with the charcoal and chalk ones, trying to create a good portrait. But the results are always pretty poor. Whilst on holiday I saw a booth in an amusement arcade, where "Van Gogh" would take a picture, give you various options, and produce what I can only say is a superb likeness.

I’m just wondering whether there exist photoshop plugins that do a rather better job than Photoshop 7? Advice would be gratefully received!

Robert wrote:

I don’t tend to use filters, but have always liked to experiment with the charcoal and chalk ones, trying to create a good portrait. But the results are always pretty poor. Whilst on holiday I saw a booth in an amusement arcade, where "Van Gogh" would take a picture, give you various options, and produce what I can only say is a superb likeness.

I’m just wondering whether there exist photoshop plugins that do a rather better job than Photoshop 7? Advice would be gratefully received!

I would like to know, also. A couple of years ago, my granddaughter had her portrait made at the county fair. It was made by a person who had a stand set up and used some kind of software and it came out as an excellent drawing that looked exactly like a pencil drawing.
If you get any good tips please post them.

Jerry
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I don’t tend to use filters, but have always liked to experiment with the charcoal and chalk ones, trying to create a good portrait. But the results are always pretty poor. Whilst on holiday I saw a booth in an amusement arcade, where "Van Gogh" would take a picture, give you various options, and produce what I can only say is a superb likeness.

I’m just wondering whether there exist photoshop plugins that do a rather better job than Photoshop 7? Advice would be gratefully received!

Try this:

Shift + Ctrl +U
Ctrl + J
Ctrl + I
in layers palette change mode to color dodge
Filter Blur > Gaussian Blur Use radius until it looks like sketch

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:33:13 GMT, (Robert)
wrote:

I don’t tend to use filters, but have always liked to experiment with the charcoal and chalk ones, trying to create a good portrait. But the results are always pretty poor. Whilst on holiday I saw a booth in an amusement arcade, where "Van Gogh" would take a picture, give you various options, and produce what I can only say is a superb likeness.

I’m just wondering whether there exist photoshop plugins that do a rather better job than Photoshop 7? Advice would be gratefully received!

Try this:

Shift + Ctrl +U
Ctrl + J
Ctrl + I
in layers palette change mode to color dodge
Filter Blur > Gaussian Blur Use radius until it looks like sketch
Regards,
Duane

I don’t tend to use filters, but have always liked to experiment with the charcoal and chalk ones, trying to create a good portrait. But the results are always pretty poor. Whilst on holiday I saw a booth in an amusement arcade, where "Van Gogh" would take a picture, give you various options, and produce what I can only say is a superb likeness.

I’m just wondering whether there exist photoshop plugins that do a rather better job than Photoshop 7? Advice would be gratefully received!

I don’t tend to use filters, but have always liked to experiment with the charcoal and chalk ones, trying to create a good portrait. But the results are always pretty poor. Whilst on holiday I saw a booth in an amusement arcade, where "Van Gogh" would take a picture, give you various options, and produce what I can only say is a superb likeness.

I’m just wondering whether there exist photoshop plugins that do a rather better job than Photoshop 7? Advice would be gratefully received!