How to make a drawing from a photo?
Photoshop is a program that has a huge number of capabilities, many of which ordinary users are not even aware of. One of the most interesting options of the most popular image editing program is the ability to create a drawing from a photo. We’ll talk about how to make a drawing from a photo in Photoshop in this article.
Photoshop Features
To complete the task of turning a photo into a drawing in Photoshop, you can use various techniques. Each technique allows you to achieve different effects. Can be made from a photo pencil drawing, or maybe a picture painted with paints, a cartoon image, etc. Let's take a closer look at the most convenient and popular methods.
Painting with a brush
This task is easily accomplished using the new Photoshop tool- Oil Paint filter. This tool contains 2 sections - "Brush" and "Lighting". The first section has four “sliders”: “Stylization”, “Cleanliness”, “Scale”, “Stubble Details”, the second has two: “At an angle”, “Shine”. As you may have guessed, the first tool is responsible for setting the “artist’s pen”, the second is for creating the necessary lighting for the “canvas”. By playing with the appropriate filter sliders, you can achieve different sizes and character of strokes, ultimately creating a picture in the style that suits you most.
Pencil drawing
Surprisingly, in order to make a pencil drawing from a photo, it will take more effort than to “paint” with paints. The work will not be difficult, but more steps will be required.
- Open the required photo in Photoshop.
- IN currently in the Layers palette you should have one layer called Background, copy the layer and name it “Photo1”.
- Press the key combination Ctrl+SHIFT+U, after which the layer will become black and white.
- Copy the layer again, call it “Photo2” and invert it using the Ctrl+I combination.
- Now in the layers palette, select the Color Dodge option for the “Photo2” layer (after this the layer will turn white, don’t be alarmed, this is how it should be).
- Go through the Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur path and move the “slider” in the palette that appears. At this moment the drawing will begin to “appear”. In the filter you can select the size of strokes, shadow and depth of the picture.
- In principle, with the help of skillful selection of the last parameters it should already turn out quite well, but in most cases additional adjustments with a brush are required. On the main toolbar, select "Brush", color - black. In the brush properties, set the following settings - Hardness - 0%, Oracity - 5-10%, Diametr - the most comfortable for drawing, after which we edit the drawing, adding our own strokes. By the way, using a white brush, on the contrary, you can remove unnecessary strokes.
cartoon drawing
Making a cartoon drawing from a photo is perhaps the most difficult thing, although it’s strange, because the word “cartoon” is so frivolous. To complete this task you 
You will need basic drawing skills and patience.
- Open the photo in Photoshop.
- Add a new transparent layer.
- Select the "Brush" tool, color - black, size - 1 pixel.
- Make the transparent layer active and start “drawing” on it - tracing the outline of all the elements of the photo.
- Once we are done with the stroke, select the Fill tool and color the elements as desired - since we are drawing a cartoon drawing, we recommend using bright colors.
- All! It is done.
Programs for creating drawings from photos online
The above schemes for turning a photo into a drawing are quite simple, but if you do not want to perform even such small actions, you can always use 
some online service to solve this problem, for example, Photofania or Cartoonize. Just upload a photo, press Enter and wait for the result!
Other programs
Whatever one may say, Photoshop is still a rather difficult program to use; non-advanced users will not immediately find the Layers panel. On the other hand, mastering Photoshop is a very useful skill, and therefore the result is worth the effort. However, no one will mind if you use a simpler program to turn a photo into a drawing. Read about the most popular programs that solve this problem.
More and more often, simple online photo editors are not able to process photos in such a way as to make the photos truly interesting. Not everyone can learn complex programs such as Photoshop. However, those who want to add variety to their photographs will always find a way out. Upload a portrait photo to the service and you will be able to make amazing facial changes: facial morphing, changing facial expressions, and, finally, facial animation! That is, lips, cheeks, eyebrows and eyelids will actually move! Creating this effect will take no more than a minute!
The service also provides many other features. Here you can create not only realistic facial expressions , such as a wink, a sweet smile, a sly squint, genuine surprise, or a sad lowering of the corners of the lips, but also a lot of parody effects . In addition, you can apply a cartoon effect to each caricature . Parody effects are reminiscent of creating a cartoon from a photo, or a photo caricature: just as fun, but incomparably simpler and faster. Upload a portrait photo of yourself (or a friend's photo ;)) and turn into an alien, a fat guy, a lightbulb man or a troll!
Facial animation is a unique animated avatar!
Have you ever thought about your avatar? Is it individual? Does it reflect your personality? The right way make the avatar “yours” - put your own face on it. But anyone can just cut a face out of a photo, it’s boring. Mega-original change face you can go to the website. Your avatar can become either animated or static (for those sites and social networks, which prohibit animation). Smile at your friends, wink at them or make funny faces. They will appreciate your new avatar!
Effects for photos and online photo jokes: manufacturing technology
Creating photo effects with a face is a whole science. First, you need to correctly find the main facial features, such as the corners of the eyes and mouth, and nose. Secondly, correctly set the function of their transformation, for example, a sequence of frames for the smooth appearance of a smile. Then, with the right selection of parameters, you can get an excellent result. But don't worry, the site will do all this for you, and completely automatically!
Application cartoon effect (or comic book effect, hand-drawn effect) requires finding the sharpest boundaries in the photo. These boundaries are then carefully drawn, the number of colors in the photo is reduced and the transitions between adjacent colors are smoothed out. Thus, by applying the “Cartoon Effect” photo filter, you can turn a portrait photo into a cool cartoon picture.
Good day to all! Today I’ll tell you about an application that makes a cartoon drawing from a photo! Similar programs exist in online versions, and for phones and computers. The easiest way to create a cartoon is to use one of the filters built into the program.
Applications that can help you make a photo cartoon
cartoon.pho.to
This is an online service that can easily help you create a cartoon drawing from a photo. Using such software, you do not need to install a special program on your computer. Or install the program on your smartphone, iPhone or other phone! The project allows you to process an image in a matter of minutes. As a result, you will receive a full-fledged image in the desired form!
You can upload the image from disk, you can simply enter a link, or from Facebook. I personally find it most convenient to upload an image from a computer. This project is very interesting and I think it will be quite useful!
Prisma
A unique application that allows you to convert your photo into a cartoon drawing. What should be done?
- Download this software
- Install it on your phone
- To photograph
- Select a photo in this program
- Apply various effects
Similar software can be used directly on Instagram.
PaperCamera
This is a program that will actually turn a photo into a cartoon drawing! You can create a photo and apply a certain filter to it. Or first set it up, that is, put your camera in a special mode and start shooting in it. The application gives a colossal effect from which you will be delighted! You can download this program from Google Play!
SketchGuru
This software will help you create a cartoon out of an ordinary photo. Or in general you can make a hand-drawn portrait or image made with a simple pencil. For me personally this application really like.
So, by getting to know one of these apps, or learning each of them, you will be able to convert a photo into a cartoon drawing. Of course, this can also be done in regular photoshop, but not everyone wants to delve into the program’s numerous settings. Here you just create a photo, select a filter and hurray! You already have what you wanted! That's all, good luck in your endeavors!
Video about how to make yourself drawn!
In this article, we will show you an easy way to make a cartoon drawing from a photo in Photoshop using various filters and blending modes. We won't have to color or draw anything, so the result can be saved as an action and used for other frames.
Let's begin. Open the photo in Adobe Photoshop.
Unlike photographs, cartoon drawings have a limited range of colors, are characterized by clear boundaries and slight posterization. To make a photo cartoon in Photoshop, we will add effects using filters.
First, let's create a copy of the original layer so that the changes do not affect the original. Let's use the command Layer/“Layers” → Duplicate Layer…/“Create a duplicate layer…” or simply drag the layer icon onto the new layer icon in the bottom menu in the layers panel.
Now let's use the filter Filter/"Filter" → Blur/"Blur" → Smart Blur.../"Smart Blur...".
Our task is to make the colors in the photo simpler and “flat”, smooth out and blur the tonal transitions that are in the original photo. We select the blur parameters so that the facial features remain recognizable and fairly clear, and the tonal transitions are smoothed out. You can use the options presented in the screenshot as a starting point.
After the image has been “smoothed”, through the filter Smart Blur/"Smart blur..." let's make it even more contrasting using levels Image → Adjustments → Levels.
Now let's create a copy of the layer Layer1 and use the filter Photocopy from the group Filter Gallery/"Filter Gallery" (menu Filter/"Filter" → Filter Gallery.../"Filter Gallery...").
We need to select the filter parameters in such a way as to clearly highlight the main lines in the photo and make the picture look like a pencil sketch.
This is what the image and layers panel look like at this stage:
Set the blending mode to the top layer with the sketch. Multiply.
The picture is starting to resemble a drawing, but we'll move on.
The following steps will show you how to make a cartoon image from a photograph in Photoshop that will resemble a drawing from a comic book.
Click on the layer Layer 1(it is located in the middle of the layers and is a blurry copy of the base one). Apply a filter to it Cutout/"Applique" from the menu Filter → Filter Gallery.
We select filter parameters to suit your taste. It is necessary to reduce the number of tonal transitions and make the color boundaries in the photo more obvious, but at the same time preserve the main facial features and recognition of the photo.
Set the layer Layer1 blending mode Linear Light and adjust its opacity.
How to make a cartoon photo in Photoshop in 5 minutes?
Do you think it's difficult? - Not at all! And now, friends, I will teach you how to make a cartoon photo in Photoshop to amuse yourself, surprise others, and it wasn't boring.
Turn on Photoshop
First of all, launch this “magic”, as you already understood, Photoshop graphics editor.
Applying the effect
Now - click on the “Filter” menu line to open a list of its “offers”.
In the “drop-down” list, click on the line “Filter Gallery”. You are almost there, guys.
And now, left-click on the “Imitation” filter subgroup. And when all options for this function open, select “Application”. This will be the “magic” tool that will change your photo in a split second.
On the right, in the effect settings window, you will see three parameters, changing which you can achieve different results for processing the frame.
Setting up parameters
The first of them, “Number of levels”, is responsible for the clarity of the drawing. By increasing its value, you add precise nuances to your cartoon image.
The next one, “Simplicity of Edges”, will work “in your favor” if you move its “slider” to the left. The further to the right it turns out, the more your picture will resemble a set of different figures from a school geometry course.
And the third, “Edge Clarity,” gives your drawing more detail when you move the “slider” of this setting to the left.
Select, friends, the most suitable, in terms of the final result, and the optimal parameters for this effect in your opinion, and click on the “OK” button.
I’ll say right away, guys, that a lot depends on the “source” of the future “cartoon”. Take ones where the person is “captured” in close-up, and not too many small colored details. Then the processing result will be prettier.
But what if you want to become a real Photoshop professional? then here you go...
Good luck to you and supportive creative muses! See you!
Best regards, Sergey Ivanov
