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This should be fairly simple, but I am having a lot of trouble converting a photo to a line drawing.
I thought there was once a filter for just that, but maybe I am dreaming that. Any suggestions?
If you have Adobe Illustrator in your subscription package you might want to look at Illustrator's image trace options
Dave
The basic steps in Illustrator are:
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There's Filter > Stylize > Find Edges - but it does just that. I can't guarantee that you'll be happy with the result.
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There's Filter > Stylize > Find Edges - but it does just that. I can't guarantee that you'll be happy with the result.
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Keeping this in Photoshop, in addition to the filter mentioned above, there is also Filter > Filter Gallery > Stylize > Glowing Edges.
This can also be performed using the custom filter. Here are some actions that I created many years ago using various custom convolution kernels:
In most cases, one may need to pre-process before using any edge-finding filter, to simplify or remove noise etc.
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If you have Adobe Illustrator in your subscription package you might want to look at Illustrator's image trace options
Dave
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Thanks. I do have a subscription, but I am not very well-versed in AI. I will give it a try.
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The basic steps in Illustrator are:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/image-trace.html
~ Jane
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Thanks Jane. This helped immensly.
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You're welcome, @active_Brilliance1549, happy to help!
~ Jane
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