Thursday, November 16, 2006

GIMP tutorial - Pencil Sketching II

This tutorial is based on Sweety's clean sketch tutorial for Photoshop. The steps are largely the same for GIMP. Compared to the previous tutorial, this tutorial produces a cleaner pencil sketch.

  1. Open an existing image. On the menubar, File>>Open. I’ve chosen an image of the beautiful Kyoko Fukada.
    Step 1

  2. On the menubar, Layer>>Duplicate layer. Select the new copy of the image.
    Step 2

  3. On the menubar, Layer>>Colors>> Desaturate.
    Step 3

  4. On the menubar, Layer>>Duplicate layer. Select the new copy of the image.
    Step 4

  5. On the menubar, Layer>>Colors>>Invert.
    Step 5

  6. From the layers dialog, change the mode of the inverted layer to "Dodge".
    Step 6

  7. From the menubar, Filters>>Blur>Gaussian blur. Set the blur radius to a value from 3 to 5. Apply.
    Step7


And this is the final image!
Final image

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4 comments:

  1. FLMasonApril 3, 2008 at 9:19 PM

    Hmmm... interesting technique, but it's not really "sketching" in the sense that some of these "speed painters" do it. This is more of a computer technique to emulate a highly accurate sketch.

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  2. SteveJune 9, 2008 at 7:15 AM

    Thanks for this tutorial. It works fine with Gimp 2.4.4 with these changes:
    Layer>>Colors is now just Colors from the image menubar.

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  3. project_00June 10, 2008 at 5:08 AM

    Thanks for the update, Steve :)

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  4. gimp.wisdomplug.comNovember 13, 2009 at 6:25 AM

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