Outlining lines is way too thick

[Xogroroth666]

Greetings:

I've been outlining a few pictures, but no mattewr what, the lines are way too thick, and this in the lowest thickness (bar all the way to the left).
It's horrendous!!!

Been looking for an outlining action, but to no avail:
All yield the same thick effect.

How can I fix this?

Thank you.
Ben

[PECourtejoie]

Ok...

I think it would help if you learned some of the terminology first, and undersand how the tools work, I inserted some links to the help files, and recommend for you to peruse it, and also the photoshop essentials site that I find very didactic.

One thing you can try to get less detail and thinner edges is to use the lowest possible setting in Photocopy, hit ok, then hit CTRL+L for levels, and move the midtones slider you see under the graph all the way to the right, to increase the contrast of the resulting image.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/levels-adjustment.html

You also need to understand that photocopy will find edges based on existing contrast, and it might struggle on the image with the shadows across the car.

On that matter, I suggested to use dodge and burn techniques. 

The fastest method, but that is destructive is to use the dodge and burn tools found in the toolbar, their shortcut is "O"

They use is to alter the tones of the image. You can select to darken the light areas only, or the other way around, to decrease the contrast in some areas.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/dodge-burn-image-areas.html

Here is a way that is non destructive, it means it does not change your existing image. It is better to work that way, once you understand what you are doing, but it is more complicated as you move the edits on separate layers.

https://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/dodge-burn/

see also https://jkost.com/blog/tag/dodge-and-burn or for a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meFr1mKkWqM

I suggested earlier to change the physical size of the image (the number of H horizontal and V vertical pixels), since the very old photocopy filter you use works by contrast detection, and you seem to have too much detail. Go to Edit>Image size, make sure that the link icon is present, between Width and Height only, and that resample is checked (if unchecked, W, H and resolution will be linked, and you do not want that), then select either one's value, and add *2 behind, it will double the number of pixels in both directions.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/image-size-resolution.html

You could also build your own version of the photocopy filter, and select the rendering aspect you want with this tutorial: https://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/portrait-to-sketch/

[Xogroroth666]

Thank you, Sir.

Will trythis ASAP.
Will keep you posted.   🙂

Thank you, again.