Under Image/Mode the only options I have are RGB, Grayscale, and Indexed....

I am on step 6 and can't figure how to change the Mode to Dodge. Please help

OK nevermind newbie mistake ...I was on the wrong layer

Did this on the Angelina file and it worked first time. The second time I could not get the opacity to come out right .. I see a transparency layer underneath.

So sorry to be off topic but i'm a newbie here and don't know where else ask for help with this:

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Here's a better way to make a pencil drawing from a photo. Download the G'MIC plugin for the GIMP. Go to Filters -> G'MIC. In the list of filters, open up the "Black & White" section. In there, click on "Pencil portrait". Click OK. Wait a while as this can be CPU intensive, but the results are worth it. I've attached an image with the default parameters.

By the way, I shouldn't have been so harsh in my previous post. This article isn't "useless"; it actually does a good job of demonstrating how Difference of Gaussians edge detection works.

This tutorial is useless as the exact functionality (making a copy, blurring it, subtracting) is already builtin to the GIMP: Filters -> Edge-Detection -> Difference of Gaussians.

If you set the smoothing radii in the dialog box that comes up to 4 and 0, you get exactly the same effect. I'm attaching a picture so you can see.

The article mentions that the technique works "without edge detection", which makes me think that the author accidentally reinvented DoG edge detection not knowing that it was a standard function. Kudos to them, and it's kind of neat to see it done by hand, but it's not necessary.

Nice!!!!!! REALLLY good tutorial!!!!!

Awesome!

Great article!

As for the final step, I tried mask. This is the result. I am not good at it. http://i.imgur.com/n1oxHhS.png

Then I tried Free Select Tool and added 2 black layers. I change the opacity of the layers. Select / Feather, value: 30, Edit / Clear created the blur area.
http://i.imgur.com/pQmog5w.png

Hi devv,
I appreciate this style of doing line drawing.
I however haven't understood step 7.

If someone can clarify I will be glad.

Thanks for teaching your beautiful art,

Best
Dr. Ashok Koparday

Very good article. This is the way to go for a quick digital drawings. I still prefer the old-fashioned hand-drawn method... http://www.photostodrawings.com

Can u please provide me the video for above pencil sketch conversion

i like this softeares

Yes,this is good,it would be a bit better if the screens displayed were in English!
The text was....

:)

nice....!!

cool

This is the best technique I,ve seen so far for making line drawings.

Thank you

i kile this drawing.

Thx

Sujtih: I updated the last step. Hope that helps you in achieving the transition effect ;)

i had almost finished it.. I wanted to make a pencil draw effect.. this tutorial was nice.. And by viewing this article, i went to do that exactly with the same pic.. But, as i am new to GIMP, i cant get the last part.. "On my image I have applied a layer mask over the line drawing so there is a transition between photo and line drawing."

Can anyone brief with steps how that effect can be achieved???

It's even simpler than the other commenter said now, re: Artistic->Predator filter
1) duplicate layer,
2) desaturate
3) Predator filter, no pixelize
4) Colors->invert

nice work......

there is a much more simple way to do it in 2 steps:
1- Filters->Artistic->Predeator
2-Filters->Edge detection->Sobel

Features:
1- you get the drawing on an alpha channel allowing you to put any background you want.
2- To change line opacity just use layer opacity from the layer window
And your done :) ....Hope u loved it

How do i make the line more clearer? gimp newbie here

Nice tutorial. Just to clarify the STEP 2. after duplicating the layer, you have choose the duplicated layer "Background copy" in the layers dialag. If you don't see the Layers dialog, then click ctrl-L to see the dialog; then highlight the "Background copy".

To apply the desaturation, you have to use Colors->Hue-saturation dialog. Not colors->colorize. Colors->Colorize does not show the dialog as you see in the step 2 picture.
Have a nice art!

Worked great! The first layer barely showed up, but when I added a few multiply layers, it came out really nice.

Great tutorial! Thanks! Short and simple with tremendous results.

That was really good. My lines turned out too light, so I increased the contrast. It turned out sort of grainy, though.

hey thanks for the tut, it very easy to implement

in the layers dialogue right click on the layer that has the line drawing: "Add layer mask" (select white in the popup dialog). there will now be a new layer right beside the layer now in the layers dialogue. it will be fully white. click it to activate it. this is the so called mask -> you can only draw black and white and gray tones. then take the gradient tool, set FG and BG color to black and white and drag a gradient from (i.e.) left to right. then the part that is black on the layer mask becomes (semi)transparent.

hope that helps ;)

"On my image I have applied a layer mask over the line drawing so there is a transition between photo and line drawing."

How did you do that? Could you explain that part step by step? The end result with the half pencil image is pretty cool.

how to change image to pencil drawing in photoshop7?

I am an absolute beginner but desperately need to be able to do this exact thing for an important project. I've downloaded the progam and followed each step, but each time I try, at Step 4 it all goes to pot. How do I set value 4 to the selective gaussian blur? I've tried dozens of times - I can even get all the way to setting the duplicated merged layer to 'dodge' but what I end up with looks nothing like a pencil drawing! It's getting close to 'banging head on the desk' time so can someone PLEASE tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Great! Awesome! Thanks for the tutorial. I never guess that effect will be as easy like that :D thanks for sharing.

I like What Ive learned so far and I have Archived a lot by using gimp please notify me when new things are out on gimp THANXX!

If you go to Wondows/dockableDialogs/Layers the second thing from the top is Opacity and you can just slide it to 50%... you can also use the box to change the mode and create a duplicate layer

Thanks for the tut

Very nice tutorial. I'm using Gimp 2.6.3 and there's some minor differences in the dialogs, e.g. in the "Selective Gaussian Blur" there 2 parameters "Blur radius" and "Max Delta". I made some experimentation to find a good result.

Bye

How do I change the opacity to 50% on gimp2.6

No comment. Just thanks for the great tutorial.

Great tutorial... Keep up the good work...

My image turned our very good.
But can someone tell how to keep half of it in colour ??

My image turned our very good.
But can someone tell how to keep half of it in colour ??

I have the same problem as blackrain. Though I have experienced that following your steps sometimes results in something different (XD) and I have to alter the steps sometimes - but in the end, it would always work.

By the way, blackrain option two you will find under hue something, but not colorize in 2.6.

So, my problem is step four. I tried to trick this effect with a bumb map and some other stuff. It still wouldn't work. I feel stupid, for not getting that one right, because it's one of the easiest I've read so far. ~.~

Thanks
Moku

This is an awesome tutorial. For those asking, Opacity can be changed via a slider in the Layers, Channels and Paths Toolbar (the one with the gradients and colours on it)

Excellent tutorial - thanks! And thanks to devv for pointing out where to find "dodge" - sich things not always obvious to the newbie!!

I can't figure out how you change the opacity to 50% on gimp 2.6

the toolbar that has the copies on it it doesnt show up! why?

how to do you change the opacity to 50%?

Thank you, that was exactly that i searched !

excellent tutorial! thank you ^^

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Hi, good tutorial, congratulations. I've experimented a bit and increased yellow in color balance, previous to desaturate(don't know if makes difference), and substituted selective gaussian blur by "focus blur" value of 8. The results are pretty good and the lines are more thick.
Can this proccess be automated as a script fu?

Hi. Have get the plugin pencil-drow..for gimp.How do i install it i the program?

im new o gimp and dont know how to change the layer opacity. Can someone tell me please

It would be good effect if used with some trick to flatten colours. Then it would look like coloured sketch or watercolour ;)

Have you tried edge detection, I think it works a bit cleaner and the traces are better.

Good tutorial though.

Regards.

it should work definately. the technique is using only very basic things such as layer modes. i dont think 2.6 has changed something here

can this tut work in gimp 2.6.0? cause, i've tried it and it dosen't work...

in the layers dialog look above the opacity/transparency ruler. there is a dropdown called "mode"

how so you change the layers mode..i dont know how to do that..

take a picture of yourself. use a bright / white background and apply the steps shown in the tutorial!

how do i make this for my self?

Cool effect. :) Would you be able to make a tutorial on blending two images together?