Photos into line art

[stevebuk]

Hi does anyone know of any software that can turn a photo or picture into line art , I need to be able to it like a pencil drawing rather than a photo..

T I A

 

[gregmcateer]

Hi Steve, Hope you are well

Never used them, but found;

http://online.rapidresizer.com/photograph-to-pattern.php

http://www.snapstouch.com/

Photoshop tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyu2yPwiQvA

HTH

Greg

 

[klkarrier]

i use photoshop all the time, you need to adjust a lot of settings to produce the picture. Here's one i done but didnt really take a lot of time over tbh

 

[stevebuk]

Thanks guys, I'll take a look..

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

Inkscape will also do this. I can dig out the book and see how if you like.

 

[Jacob]

pencil + tracing paper

 

[stevebuk]

Inkscape will also do this. I can dig out the book and see how if you like.

Thank you, but i am sorted now..

 

[stevebuk]

pencil + tracing paper

Used to do this Jacob but its not always easy to see detail in the shadows, but now i use tracedown, just needed line art to follow..

 

[Cordy]

Hi Sporky McGuffin
I use Inkscape and would be interested to know how to do line drawings with it ------ Please

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

Right. It's in The Inkscape Beginner's Guide, which I got from Amazon.

Open the bitmap image into an Inkscape document. Select it, go to Path/Trace Bitmap

The suggested initial settings are Single Scan, Brightness Cutoff: Threshold 0.450, then into Options, Suppress Speckles: Size 2, Smooth Corners: Threshold 1.00, Optimize paths Tolerance 0.20

Then hide the original bitmap and off you go.

 

[bugbear]

Right. It's in The Inkscape Beginner's Guide, which I got from Amazon.

Open the bitmap image into an Inkscape document. Select it, go to Path/Trace Bitmap

The suggested initial settings are Single Scan, Brightness Cutoff: Threshold 0.450, then into Options, Suppress Speckles: Size 2, Smooth Corners: Threshold 1.00, Optimize paths Tolerance 0.20

Then hide the original bitmap and off you go.

Could you (please) apply that to the sample upthread, for comparison?

BugBear

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

Right - from those settings we get this - not great.

Changing to edge detect we get this, better:

Could probably do better with more time/effort, but the latter isn't bad for 10 minutes including uploading to FTP.

 

[bugbear]

Right - from those settings we get this - not great.

Changing to edge detect we get this, better:

Could probably do better with more time/effort, but the latter isn't bad for 10 minutes including uploading to FTP.

Interesting (and thank you!). I think both versions are good, depending on the final purpose.

BugBear

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

No probs.

Both are vector output (within Inkscape) rather than bitmap so very editable.

 

[Cordy]

Sporky McGuffin
Thanks for the help

Cordy