Comments on: Deke’s Techniques: Turning a photo into a line drawing in Photoshop

By: Colleen Wheeler, content curator

Colleen Wheeler, content curator — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:26:21 +0000

@ Thaily, I agree, the talent and hard work of practiced artists shows regardless of medium, whether pen and ink or a complicated digital tool like Photoshop.

By: Colleen Wheeler, content curator

Colleen Wheeler, content curator — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:21:47 +0000

@ Amy, can you explain more about your experience. Are you saving out a JPEG or just flattening? (Deke, who never met a layer he didn’t love wanted to know why you were flattening.) What kind of blurriness is happening?

By: Thaily

Thaily — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:17:20 +0000

“if nature didn’t endow you with the ability to draw”

I know we make it look like magic, but there’s actually more to being able to draw than just talent. There’s a lot of hard work; studying and practicing and having to deal with a lot of dumb misconceptions that makes people undervalue the amount of work that goes into developing this -skill-.

And guess what, most people under the age of 30 can tell the difference between a filtered photo and an actual drawing. These are not drawings, they’re lazy and it shows.

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:12:16 +0000

I ran into a problem at the end of the tutorial. When I merge all the layers, some of the edges of the image become blurry. It only happens when you merge the photo.

By: Colleen Wheeler

Colleen Wheeler — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:32:25 +0000

A, it’s clear this technique wasn’t your cup of tea. It’s true that not every effect works for everybody’s taste; that’s one of the glories of the infinite variety of Photoshop techniques. Are there any effects you’d like to see Deke take a swing at in future episodes?

By: A

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:21:32 +0000

This is a terrible effect that should be limited to an iPhone app filter for the tasteless.

By: Colleen Wheeler

Colleen Wheeler — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:19:08 +0000

@Jeremy Cool! Would love to hear specifics about your alternative use.

By: Colleen Wheeler

Colleen Wheeler — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:18:23 +0000

@Anthony, once you create the layer mask (at about 4 minutes into the video), try using the Polygonal Lasso tool to add areas to the mask. Make sure the mask is selected in the Layers panel. Fill those areas with black.

By: Jeremy Hawes

Jeremy Hawes — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:54:20 +0000

Excellent tutorial, love the line art effect. Found an alternative use for it already in some web design stuff

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:23:08 +0000

Hi love your effect but I ran into trouble when I could not repeatedly use the lasso tool to kep cleaning up the black on the face. I kept adding a another mask by option clicking.
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