Old drawn look (by vered)

Old Drawn Look (by Vered)

NOTE: This tutorial was created in Photoshop 7and assumes that you understand Photoshop layers, layer blending, brushes, and the location of photoshop tools. You can also use Photoshop 6 or CS.

Intro:
The following was created after a request for a 50s style movie poster look. I'm not sure this is exactly what people were after, but it's the best I could do with the tools I had. The idea is to take a photo and turn it into some sort of old drawn look. Anyway, here goes...

1. Pick an image. I suggest you think a bit which image you would like for this sort of art because even if you give an image this sort of old look, some hairdos, clothes, apparatuses just won't fit this look. I chose an image of Julia Roberts all glitzy and glamoury. She can easily fit into an old movie with the hairdo and clothes in this image:

2. We begin by using the pen tool (circled in red). We will slowly draw around Julia's image, adding one point to the next, until we have drawn all around her, and we reach the first point and close our path:

Selecting image with the pen tool

The closed selection (i.e., the path).

3. Now we will turn the image into a selection. Make sure the "path" dialogue box is open, and at the bottom choose the dotted circle (circled in image). It will turn your path into a selection:

4. This is your selection:

5. Press CTRL+C to copy the image to an invisible clipboard. Then go to the "File" menu and choose "New" with a white background. The size of the image should be the exact size of the image you copied to the clipboard, but change that size so there's some space around the image you would like to work with, or to any size of canvas in case you want to include a few such images. Now paste your image into the new canvas by clicking CTRL+V, and position it in the place you wish it to be in:

6. Using the paintbucket fill the background layer with the colour of your choice. I chose light gray:

7. Create a new empty layer underneath the pasted image (here underneath Julia) and then reset your brushes so that the delicate feathered ones are available. Now choose colours to draw around the image. First draw with a light colour closest to the background colour, and use a wide brush, like 65px in diameter. Then choose a slightly smaller brush, and a darker colour, in my case darker gray, draw around the image again. Don't draw all around... this is somewhat up to your own feeling. I finally chose a smaller brush and added a few touches of dark gray. See the attached images to better understand:

Feathered brushes.

Light gray, wider brush.

Dark gray, smaller brush.

8. Press CTRL+A to select the entire image, then go to "Edit" menu and choose "Copy Merged". Make sure you have selected the top most layer in the layer pallette and then click "CTRL+V" to paste a merged image on top.

In the next steps we will be duplicating this layer several times. It will be referred to as "the merged layer".

9. Make a duplicate of the merged layer, then go to the "Filter" menu => "Texture" => "Grain". Settings should follow image. Leave layer's blendong as "normal":

10. Make another duplicate of merged layer and put the duplicate up top. Go to "filters" => "Artistic" => "Film Grain" (settings as in image), blend image with "Hard Light":

Film grained image after blending.

11. Make another duplicate of merged layer and put on top, then go to "Filter" => ""Brush Strokes" => "Crosshatch" (settings like in image). Blend this layer with "Hard Light" as well:

Crosshatched image after blending

12. Duplicate merged layer again, put on top, then go to "Filter" => "Brush Strokes" => "Dark Strokes" (settings according to image), then blend with "Multiply":

Darkstroked image blended.

13. Duplicate merged layer, put on top, go to "Filters" => "Sketch" => "Graphic Pen" (settings as in image). Note my choice of background/foreground colours, which are grays, close to the background colour. Blend image with "Color Burn":

Graphic pen affected image blended.

14. Add a new layer and fill it with pink:

15. Blend pink layer with "color Dodge" and an opacity of around 18%:

16. Duplicate merged layer and add on top, then go to "Image" menu => "Adjustments" => "Variations". I choose a greener look:

17. Using the greener image, go to "Filters" => "Blur" => "Gausian Blur" (settings as in image), Blend using "Color", Opacity of about 35%, and this is your final touch...:

Final image!!!

Notes:
The amount of blending and filtering can off course be changed, as can the colours. There is plenty of space for playing here till you feel you've reached the right oldish feel. I hope this is what you hoped to achieve and that this wasn't too hard.

Photoshop 7 has a nice set of Dry Media brush - here I used them in the background as an additional touch for the oldish feel. It's all a matter of playing:

Tutorial by Vered