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Hello, Today I am going to share a Photoshop quick tip in which I will explain you, How to Turn Your Photo into Pencil Sketch easily and without using any filter or Photoshop actions. It will hardly take a minute or two. Ok so without wasting your time, let me show you how you can easily Turn Your Photo into Pencil Sketch.

Helpful: Add Watermark to Images

#1. First Open your image in Photoshop, and double click on the layer Image to unlock it. I am using Jay sean Photo here.

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#2. Now Duplicate the Layer by Pressing CTRL+J

#3.  Now Desaturate the Copied layer by Pressing CTRL+SHIFT+U

#4. Now again make a duplicate layer by Pressing CTRL+J and then invert the layer by Pressing CTRL+I

#5. Now change the Layer mode to Color Dodge and you will see blank canvas with some tiny sopts.

#6. Finally go to Filter>Blur>Guassian Blur and change the radius to 2 or 3 depending upon the outcome.

And you are done with the Process of Converting Photo into Pencil sketch. Have a look at the Final Result

A quick Flash Back

#1. Open your Image, double click on the layer to unlock it.

#2. Press CTRL+J

#3. Press CTRL+SHIFT+U

#4. Press CTRL+J

#5. Press CTRL+I

#6. Change Layer mode to Color Dodge

#7. Filter>Blur>Guassian Blur> Radius to 2

And finally done

Its Quite awesome, isn’t it? Ok I have also created an action to save your time. Download it below, hope you enjoyed the tutorial and learned how to Turn Your Photo into Pencil Sketch.

Last updated by Ifham khan at October 10, 2012.