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Convert photo to line drawing

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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?

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Claire H.Correct answer

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Hi everyone, we have created a new tutorial on creating a line drawing in Photoshop.

Head to that post if you have any questions! ^CH

Claire H.

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Hi everyone, we have created a new tutorial on creating a line drawing in Photoshop.

Head to that post if you have any questions! ^CH

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jane-e

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@Subrata_Biswas1828

Do you have a question about how to use Photoshop?

Jane

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davescm

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If you have Adobe Illustrator in your subscription package you might want to look at Illustrator's image trace options

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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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jane-e

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Hi @active_Brilliance1549

The basic steps in Illustrator are:

Start a new file in Illustrator and choose File > Place to place your photo
Select the image
Choose Image Trace from either the Control or Properties panel
Try the Presets to see which is closest — some create fills, some paths, some both
Adjust the setting in the Image Trace panel (Window menu, Control panel, Properties panel)
Be sure to expand the "Advanced" section
When it looks good, Expand (Properties or Control panel) to convert to vector
It is now a Group of vector objects

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/image-trace.html

~ Jane

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D Fosse

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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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Stephen Marsh

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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.

By @D Fosse

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:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/v39rtjk2o5d4dv4zwgr4x/Custom-Convolution-Kernels.atn?rlkey=i6rad9i14q3eqfyay6k3qtynk&st=61qxf68r&dl=0

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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