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Photoshop
Photoshop Fundamentals: Use Brush Strokes for a Hand-drawn Effect
Dateline: October 23, 2007
Version: Adobe Photoshop CS3
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Draw upon Photoshop to give your photos that illustrated look and achieve dramatic results using Photoshop's own filters and brushes. For the hand-drawn effect shown here, pick a color to use for each section of the photo. For our mysterious male, we chose a brown to add drama. Stipple the color to give the photo texture and a wet look. We kept to a two-color palette for the photo of the man, but of course you can select more colors for your images.
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Download handdrawn.tif, shown at left, launch Photoshop and open the file. Choose
Image > Mode > Grayscale.
Choose Image > Mode >
RGB Color. Choose Image >
Adjustments > Brightness/
Contrast. In the Brightness/
Contrast dialog box set Brightness to 15 and Contrast to 35 and click OK.
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Press F7 to show the Layers
palette. Using the Lasso tool
(L), press Option and click
to create a selection around
the hat. Choose Layer >
New > Layer via Copy
(Command + J). Rename
the new layer “hat.”
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Press D to set Default colors
(black foreground, white
background). Choose Filter
> Sketch > Stamp. Use
the options in the resulting
Stamp dialog box and click OK.
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Select the Brush tool (B).
In the resulting Options
bar, use the options shown and click the Brush
button to open the Brush
Preset Picker. Click the
Options arrow, select Natural
Brushes from the drop-down
menu and click Append.
Select the Stipple 43 pixels
brush and change its size
to 148 pixels. Click the
Brush button again to close
the picker.
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In the toolbar, click the
foreground color sampler.
In the resulting Color Picker
dialog box, enter C:52;
M:69; Y:83; K:68, and click
OK. In the Layers palette,
click the Lock Transparent
Pixels button.
Brush over the black areas
of the hat, building up color
and texture similar to ours
shown.
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Click the Add Layer Mask
button. Press D to set Mask
Default colors, then press X
to inverse them so that Black
is the Foreground color. Use
the options in the Options
bar, then brush
over the white areas of the
hat, adding texture similar
to ours shown.
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Repeat steps 2 through 6
to add color and texture
to the face and coat. Drag
the original photo layer to
the trash. As a final touch,
create a black background
and use the same process
to add some texture to it.
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Our final result is shown at left.
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