Turn A Photo Into A Sketch For Making Coloring Books

clipped from www.photoshopsupport.com STEP 1 - Duplicate The Background Layer First duplicate the background layer. Go Layer> New> Layer via Copy STEP 2 - Desaturate The Photo With Layer 1 selected, choose Image> Adjustments> Desaturate STEP 3 - Duplicate Layer 1 At this point you must duplicate Layer 1. With Layer 1 selected, go Layer> New> Layer via Copy. Now we have 3 layers STEP 4 - Invert Layer 2 With Layer 2 selected, go Image> Adjustments> Invert. This will make your photo look like a negative. STEP 5 - Change The Layers Blend Mode To Color Dodge In the Layers Palette change the Layers Blend Mode for this layer (Layer 2) to Color Dodge. This will make your photo almost completely white STEP 6 - Apply The Gaussian Blur Filter Go Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur. When the dialog box appears start by moving the Radius Slider all the way to the left. Once you've done that you can start to slowly move it to the right. Bigger numbers create a more pronounced effect,