From past many days, I’d been unsuccessfully trying to convert a few of my photos into sketches. I think sketches look real good and can be effectively used especially to beef up one’s profile in social networking sites!
After a variety of attempts, I gave up & searched for external help. Google came up with many results for the same but none of them suited my needs. Then a couple of days back I asked a BlogCatalog friend for some help in the matter. She’s a pro at this stuff and has posted various articles about Photoshop on her site. She not only helped me in this matter, but also posted a walkthru for all to see. The original post can be viewed here. I’m very thankful to her for helping me out.
Here is one of the images that I converted to a sketch.
Original Image:
My photo at Rohtang Pass, where I’d been sometime back…
The Original Photo
Converted Sketch using Trisna’s Tutorial:
This was done on Adobe Photoshop CS 2 on Windows XP:
Sketch using Photoshop
I’ve used the same values as recommended by Trisna here.
Converted Sketch using Gimp:
This was done on Gimp 2.4.5 on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron having Gnome 2.22.1:
Sketch using Gimp
I’ve used similar values as recommended by Trisna but had to change a few options.
PS: Most people find it hard to buy Photoshop as it’s quite expensive (even I’m using a trial version that’ll expire in a few days). The best free alternative that I found for Photoshop is Gimp. One can download it’s windows installer here.
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Filed under: Gimp, Graphics & Animation, Kubuntu, Linux, PhotoShop, The Devil's Workshop, Tweaks, Tips & Tricks, Ubuntu
Heyyy YEAY!
as a matter of fact based on one of my commentator, after change it into a sketch we can tweak the RGB color 
that photo sketch looks good! hee hee…
Oh ya, i forgot you also can use GIMP to tweak or enhance the picture
~^_^~
CYA sankz
Dies ist ein groer Ort. Ich mchte hier noch einmal.