using an earlier version of Photoshop. Now,
I'm going to show you a faster and easier way to do it.
This document is approximately /
by / inches with a Resolution of pixels per inch.
Open a photo and make a copy of it
by pressing Ctrl + J on a PC or Cmd + J
on a Mac. Click on the Adjustment layer button
and choose Hue / Saturation. Reduce the Saturation
to -. Click on the thumbnail
of Layer to make it active and change the Blend Mode
to Color Dodge. Invert it
by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + I. At this point, your image should look white.
Go to Filter, Blur
and Gaussian Blur. Slide the Radius to an amount that looks good to you.
Your image should have the look and feel more of a pencil drawing than a photograph.
To make the overall image look denser, click on the Adjustment Layer button again
and this time choose Levels. Slide the Input darks to the right
until the face is just the right amount of density.
If other areas are too dense like the dress
in this example, open your Brush Tool, make the Brush Size
relatively large, the Hardness
% and the Opacity, %.
Make sure the foreground color is black
and then brush over areas you'd like to make less dense.
To clean up some areas, make a "composite snapshot"
by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E on a PC
or Cmd + Shift + Option + E on a Mac.
Invert
the foreground and background colors by clicking on the curved, double-arrow
icon or pry pressing "x".
on your keyboard. Make the Brush Size
small to medium and the Opacity,
%. Now, simply brush over the areas you want to clean up.
Using these quick, simple techniques,
you can transform any photo into a beautiful pe
