Photos to sketches and paintings

[jeff wallis]

This is the first time I have posted to Elements Village but I have been a reader for some time. I have learned a lot from its pages and just recently I have been looking at tutorials making photographs look like paintings or sketches.

Looking around outside ‘The Village’ I came across a stand alone programme for achieving this which I thought might be of interest to other members. I think it produces very good results and it’s completely free. It’s called ‘Fotosketcher’ and can be downloaded from here.

http://www.fotosketcher.com/

It gives plenty of user control and of course the final result can be transferred to PE for further tweaking.

As a demo here are some variations on an original photograph of mine of houseboats on the Regents Canal in London, an area known as ‘Little Venice’ and I have shown it in various forms.

original photograph (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1khoS4juNhpPnOEhiWqf4GGtXciwt)
b/w pencil sketch (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1o8o7NIZLovBxiTfJ5S3n16Fyegzjl1)
coloured pencil sketch (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1N9iNPNsvKlZlemK35rFu2JvK2UfPk1)
water colour (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1STwVUPJRPSV5IizGWgoFpRxU52wto)
oil painting. (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1dAfUXMbD4Zg9sL1MeQxZlgFugEND80)

[Diana]

Glad you came out of hiding, Jeff.... welcome. Thanks for posting the link and examples.

Diana

[MadCap]

Hi Jeff,

Thank you for that link! That's very kind of you!

[SairyGamp]

What a nice program! Unfortunately, it's only for Windows.

[Wendy]

Hi Jeff ...

... and welcome to the Village .. so glad that you have now posted a message :)

I am sure that lots of forum members will enjoy the link.

Wendy

[lisabee]

Hi and welcome to the Village Jeff :),

you have some lovely results on your photo, the last one with the texture looks really good,

Lisa

[swalkr]

Thanks for posting the link. Here's an example. I changed a few settings and added a frame. Good quick way to "make art" if you are in a hurry.

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1VOG7z7JWRPuv8YRCrHXnKIJ6duZo91_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1VOG7z7JWRPuv8YRCrHXnKIJ6duZo91)

[lisagui]

Thanks for link this is a great program and the price it so right!