Photoshop Resources Tagged as “pencil”

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Converting a Photo to a Realistic Pencil Sketch

In this tutorial, you will learn how to convert a photo to a sketch in Photoshop CS4. This is likely the quickest and most efficient method for creating this effect.

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The Photoshop Lasso Tool

Photoshop's Lasso Tool is probably the easiest of the selection tools to use, allowing us to draw freehand selections around objects in a photo as if we were outlining them on paper with a pen or pencil. We'll learn how to combine it with Photoshop's ability to add and remove areas of a selection to fix up problem areas and dramatically improve your results!

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Quick Pencil Sketching Effect in photoshop

Sketching with hand is a gift. If you don't have, no need of worrying. There is always Photoshop to help you out with making this effect. This lesson we will go through few steps and see how to make a sketching tutorial.

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Eraser Tools Explained

We will soon be showing you what a layer mask is, but before we get to that we want to show you the Eraser tools. Eraser tools allow you remove portions of the image such as an eraser on a pencil. The reasons why we are showing you this first is the eraser tools are permanent changes were masks are temporary removals. In this tutorial we will be discussing the eraser tool, background eraser tool, magic eraser tool. We left one of the most dangerous tools in Photoshop at the end of the tutorial (Magic Eraser Tool). Along the way you will learn tips and tricks on how to use these eraser tools more efficiently.

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Learn how to use color and painting tools in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will show you how to use the different features of the Paint Brush and the Pencil tool. By the time you are done with this tutorial you will also be able to select a color to use in your image from many different ways (picking the color from an existing image, using numeric values to find your color, etc.). While we proceed through this tutorial we will show you tips and tricks such as how to undo your work if you make a mistake (yes, we all make mistakes).

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How to Reduce a Chin in Photoshop

Here's the definitive technique for removing double chins using photoshop. Based on years of retouching using old fashion pencil and pastel techniques.

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How to Colorize your Drawings

On the trip to my hometown I drew a picture of an afghan woman with a pencil. I thought it looked quite nice so I wanted to colorize it when I was back home. To do so you simply need a scanner - thats all. So back home I scaned the picture and started colorizing it in Photoshop. If you want to know how I did this, keep reading.

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Colored Pencil Sketch

Learn a fast and easy way to convert your Images into colored pencil sketch effect in Adobe Photoshop.

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Pastel crayon effect

Photoshop Elements includes a lot of artistic effects, almost as many as Photoshop itself. The big brother lets you fiddle around with various pencil drawings and painting effects for an interesting feel. Now we'll see what Elements offers if you want to emulate a pastel crayon look. The procedure is roughly the same in Photoshop, so feel free to try it if you have the regular edition.

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Fully Shaded Pencil Sketches

I am going to show you an easy way to transform photos into fully shaded pencil sketches in Adobe Photoshop.

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Turn Image into a Pencil Sketch

Learn the easy way to turn a regular image into a beautiful pencil sketch in Photoshop. Very beginner friendly.

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School days sketches Photoshop brushes

A set of 27 Photoshop brushes made up of sketches of school themed items. These were all drawn by hand! They are high resolution, with the average size being about 1800 pixels. Includes: "1 2 3", "a b c", an apple for the teacher, a backpack, some books, chalkboard, chalk and an eraser, crayons, desk, football, hopscotch design, lockers, lunchbox and thermos, pencil, ruler, school bus, seesaw, slide, swingset, and more!

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Creating pixel art with Photoshop

This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a piece of pixel art by tracing an image with Pen and Pencil tools.

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Actions on frame by frame video

Make video sequences that look like cartoon or pencil animations. This tutorial will teach you how to use Photoshop actions on batched images using Quicktime Pro and a short digitized video clip.

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Cloud Illustration

This tutorial is meant and suitable for photoshop beginner who wants to do a simple cloud illustration without the use of pencil tool! You will definitely learn something new supposedly you're still not familiar with the blending options.

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Vibrant photo collage

Here we learn how to use lots of vibrant color to create a slightly abstract photo manipulation using pencils and fruit. We will learn how to use the Photoshop pen tool effectively and also some freehand brushing which looks good.

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Create a super shiny pencil icon

The Pencil is one of the visual metaphors most used to express creativity. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to draw a pencil icon. We'll have a look at gradients, selection tools, and basic transform operations. Let's have some fun with this.

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Make your own printable calendar

Customizable image calendar. Use some of the Pencil Pixel Cover art or download the zip file and use your own image (updated in December for new year). Download the zip file and open it in your browser. Instructions to make the calendar will be on the screen.

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Over 1000 freeware fonts

Over 1000 FREEware fonts listed alphabetically or in category groups. Mac and PC versions. Some of the Photoshop style sample art was made and is available from PencilPixels.com

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Sketch, toon and stained glass actions

This trial set contains three Photoshop Droplets for use with Photoshop 7, CS, CS2 and CS3. Mac and Windows. Rough Pencil Sketch, Toon/Poster and Stained Glass effects. The trial versions will scale the image to 900 pixels, so your images should be at least, or close to 900 pixels.

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Drawing cute anime kids

Draw anime like a pro! From concept to completetion, this guide demonstrates how to take a pencil sketch and transform it into a full-color digitized piece.

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Makeup and face sketches brushes

A set of 28 Photoshop brushes made up of sketches of bottles and tubes of various types of makeup. Also includes various facial elements (eyes, nose, lips), and makeup to go on them. For example, there is eyeshadow made to go on the sketched eyes, lipstick for lips, etc. These were all drawn by hand, and are high resolution. Average size is about 1900 pixels. The bottles and tubes include: lipstick, lip gloss, concealer, nail polish, various powders, eyeliner, pencils, etc.

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Color your sketch

No need to use any color pencil to color your hand-drawing nowadays. You also use Photoshop to finish all of them as well.

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Dolar photo to illustration effect

In this article you will get to know how to transform a real dollar photo into a colored pencil drawing in Adobe Photoshop.

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Colored pencil sketch photo effect

Learn how to create a pencil drawing out of any photo in Adobe Photoshop.

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Manual drawing picture in pencil style

Even there are many kinds of plug ins and built-in effects for Photoshop, however a pencil drawing is beautiful or not, is depended a lot on the artist. In this tutorial, I will help you draw a real pencil picture not use much effect like before.You art work will be more realistic than ever.

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Advanced digital drawing in Photoshop - Video tutorial

In this video we'll learn how to make a digital drawing from a sketch made in pencil, as we do in SOSFactory. In this new videotutorial the main news is that we'll learn how to modulate the lines giving them different weights; with this we'll get a much more shocking and dynamic result.

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Turn Any Photo Into A Sketch In Six Easy Steps

Impress your friends, family or clients with your amazing art skills without lifting a pencil by turning any photo into a sketch in only a few simple steps that take less than a minute from start to finish.

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Snap Art

Snap Art creates beautiful, natural media artwork in a single step. Render any image in an unlimited variety of real-world art styles including oil paint, pencil sketch, pen and ink, comics, and more. Great for stylizing photos or graphics, Snap Art works without laborious hand editing and is more versatile than Actions or brushes. Conventional artists often use an underdrawing to outline key objects within a composition. This lightly drawn sketch serves as a guide and is usually painted or drawn over in the final composition. Similarly, Snap Art uses edge detection to discern the objects, edges, lines, and shapes of an original image. Then, using this outline, an advanced paint engine strokes and fills this outline using the brushes and colors you specify.

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Engraver for Photoshop

Engraver is a plug-in module for Adobe Photoshop and compatible editors. This filter allows to stylize any of your photos or images as beautiful engraving pictures or pencil sketches. The Engraver allows cutting through images with thin lines, dots, circles that will form a geometric pattern. Using Engraver will let you represent your image as a colored or black and white stylized print.

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Scribbles and Doodles Brushes

A set of 37 brushes made up of scribbles and doodles in various media (pencil, pen, crayon, etc).

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Office Supplies Brushes

A set of 48 brushes composed of various office supplies. Made specifically with scrapbooking in mind, but it should have other uses, as well. Includes: paperclips, rubber band, binder edges, eyelets, various types of paper (scraps, crumpled, old, notebook, etc), rulers, tags, tape, pushpins, pencil, pen, and many more!

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Pencil Sketch to Smooth Digital Shading

This step by step tutorial shows how I convert my pencil sketches in to polished digital art using Photoshop. Learn how to use the smudge tool on pencil sketches to create smooth digital shading.

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Making bread with scratchboard & Photoshop

A pencil is done, working at the same size as the printed piece. I usually work a little larger than the printed piece, but this illustration is fairly large and will generally be viewed from a distance.
Image and tutorial by Michael Halbert

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Rikki-tikki-tavi in pencil and Photoshop 5.5

Rikki-tikki-tavi is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. The story, and my illustration, were to be used by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in a text book for 6th grade students, used to teach reading skills.
Image and tutorial by Michael Halbert

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Creating a monster with Photoshop 5.5

This illustration began as a detailed pencil drawing that was scanned and used as a guide in Adobe Photoshop 5.5 and Adobe Illustrator 8.
Image and tutorial by Michael Halbert

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Separating a Drawing From Its Background

This is a pencil drawing that has been scanned. It is on one layer - black pencil lines on a white background. The problem is to separate the lines from the white background and get them on their own layer. Once on their own layer, colors can be added or painted on layers underneath the lines.

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Rubbings

Lift the texture with a pencil
Image and tutorial by ESCRAPPERS

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