Turn photo into sketch online

After a lot of research, I could finally develop a new sketch photo effect editor. It brought to Picture to People project a completely new level of non-realistic drawing photo editor.

With this photo sketch generator, each drawing is made of thousands of even millions of individual strokes, but they are chosen and rendered in much more intelligent and coherent ways, making possible a higher preservation of original fine details.

Moreover, this photo sketch algorithm has several important freedom degrees, so its interface has a lot of useful and interesting design parameters. This can help users to get artistic styles like made by using pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, pastel, charcoal, crayon, chalk, etc.

As a bonus feature, I added options to customize background and strokes colors, what helps to increase the plethora of available design effects.

By using this photo sketch maker, it's possible to produce, in a few seconds, pencil drawings that look carefully drawn by talented artists. Below you see a drawing created with this professional Photo to Pencil Sketch Converter Online.

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How to create hatched drawings from photos

Have you ever tried our engraved photo drawing app that was released recently?

By using it, you can design very beautiful hatched drawings from photos. If you spend some time learning how the several configuration elements work, you can produce very artistic sketch drawings from most kinds of photos, even the most difficult to deal with.

As a special tip, beware this sketch effect app works better with input images that have a relative smooth look. Images that have many regions with high frequency textures can get overdrawn. To minimize this problem, you can choose the "Soft" drawing style and maybe apply a dark or pastel color improvement.

Below I show you a portrait transformed into a hatched drawing by using Picture to People Hatched Drawing Photo Editor.

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Create engraved drawing illustrations from photos online

I have released online a new drawing photo effect app in Picture to People site. I'm glad about this, because it's a cool addition to our famous list of drawing and illustration effect photo editors.

This new photo effect app can produce very beautiful and realistic engraved drawings from portraits, landscapes or any kind of images. By using this online photo editor, it's possible to get drawing with techniques similar to woodcut, engraving, etching, and scratchboard for example.

While I intend to research a specific sketch photo effect focused on hatching drawing styles, depending on the configurations you set and your input image, you can get hatched and crosshatched drawings by using this photo sketch app.

Besides, this online sketch app was developed mainly to create pen and ink drawings, but you also can imitate other medias and styles with this free sketch software.

Below you see a cool engraved illustration photo effect designed by using the Pen and Ink Engraved Drawing Photo Effect App.

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Online photo editor: colorful drawing effects

Picture to People Online Photo Editor also offers a big set of realistic colorful drawing effects that can be easily used by anyone who has an internet connection.

Even if you can't make a good job when drawing, by using this very easy photo editor you can transform your portraits and landscapes (or any photo you want) in very beautiful handmade pieces of art. There are several options of style and material, everything produced using exclusive algorithms.

It's a colorful photo drawing effect generated with one of the photo drawing editors you can use for free at this Cool Online Photo Editor. You can see the original photo at this previous post about photo enhancement effect.

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Online photo editor: drawing effects

Now we talk a little more about the Picture to People Online Photo Editor. It has many photo drawing effects that you can use very easily.

If you don't have design skills, this great set of drawing photo effect generators is perfect for you. Even if you are an expert designer, you can love these effects, because they produce professional results and are exclusive. You will not find them in any other graphic software.

Now I show you a drawing photo effect generated with one of the photo drawing editors you can use as you wish at our Free Online Photo Editor. If you didn't see the origional photo yet, it can be found at this previous post about photo enhancement effect.

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A photo editor to create vintage illustrations

I have just published a new photo editor. This one can turn your photos into nice old style illustrations.

As usual, this Picture to People online photo effect creator is very easy to use, but offers several useful configuration options.

Below you can see an example of retro stylized illustration generated by using our new Vintage Photo Illustration Editor.

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Turn photos into realistic colorful pencil drawings

I have released a new free online software to create realistic pencil drawing photo effects.

 This new software is more powerful than the previous ones. Among its great features are:
- creates realistic drawings like made by human artists;
- high fidelity with the original images, even the detailed ones;
- has great configuration level, so you can simulate several drawing styles and media types;
- offers several ways to improve the input image for best results;
- has several beautiful stroke styles;
- offers nice control over outline drawing;
- offers fine grain selection for output colors.

Below you see a sample of the amazing colorful pencil drawings you can generate using this free online graphic software:

Use it at the Realistic Colorful Drawing Photo Effect page.

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Turning photos into professional pencil sketches

The tool that makes the most realistic pencil sketches and drawings is even better.

It received some more optimizations and now, depending on the configuration you set, produces even more fine, soft, detailed strokes, delivering high-fidelity as professional artists do.

Surprise your relatives and friends with amazing drawings by using the Realistic Pencil Sketch Photo Effect software (and don't forget to read the tips in the page to get the best experience using it): http://www.picturetopeople.org/photo_sketch/realistic_pencil_sketch_photo_effect.html

Below you see an example about professional pencil drawing made with the software (click to see in bigger size):

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Sketch your photo

I would like to show some more samples about what our Realist Sketch Photo Effect tool can make. Its astonishing detailed and fine grain strokes create very beautiful and realistic pencil drawings (or even other styles if you chance accordingly the interface parameters).

The example below shows how you can get a drawing with high fidelity even when the input is an image without high contrast.

This artistic software has been tested with photos having very different math properties and the results have never been disappointing. Sometimes the default configuration is not the best one, so it's a good idea to spend a little time learning how to use this amazingly powerful graphic tool.

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Sketch my photo

Have you ever thought about turning your preferred photos in amazingly realistic pencil sketches? Using Picture to People new online software you can.

Using the most professional sketch photo effect you can create drawings as good as if you were a professional portrait drawer.

Below I you show a nice example of how this tool can generate impressive coherent detailed strokes. To see more awesome samples, go to this page called The Best Pencil Sketch Photo Effects.





Try the best software to create pencil sketches from photos by going to the Realistic Pencil Sketch Photo Effect page.

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Realistic pencil sketch photo effect

Picture to People proudly presents the software that can generate the most beautiful, realistic and detailed sketches from photos, pretty in the same quality as the most talented artists. This tool can create reliable fine grain strokes to deliver perfect drawings as never seen before.

Changing the interface parameters, you can get different kinds of strokes, pressures and blends, so it's possible to produce a piece of art that looks like made by using pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, crayon, chalk, watercolor, pastel, etc.

Surf to the The Best Pencil Sketch Photo Effects to see several examples of the very realistic and impressively detailed drawings created by using this exciting software.

You also can use this new Picture to People tool by going to the Realistic Pencil Sketch Photo Effect page.

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Colorful Pencil Drawing - other example

I want to show another pencil drawing generated using the new Picture to People feature. This time I used a different style with ticker pencil strokes.

Contrary to what many people think, choosing the finest stroking styles or using as input photos as large as possible are not always the best options. It depends on the input picture properties and the result you are looking for.

Here you see a photo and its colorful pencil drawing rendered using the Photo Colorful Drawing tool. You can click the images to see them in full size.

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The next generation of pencil drawing effects

As an evolution of the researches I made to develop the "Photo Sketch" feature, I developed a new amazing tool to turn pictures in colorful pencil drawings.

I have long experience as developer of artistic graphic effects and I think it is my best software to create complex realistic drawings from photos. It has many interesting properties:

- it's can be super realistic if you use it correctly;
- the strokes can be even more delicate and detailed;
- taking in account the renderer complexity, its processing time is short;
- it has no limitations concerning number of strokes.

Below I show what this new feature is able to make:

This new tool was already released. You can use it in Picture to People site, at the Photo Colorful Drawing section.

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Professional Photo Sketch

I would like to show at least one more example about how detailed Photo Sketch drawings can be. This tool is capable of generating really well calculated fine strokes.

You can choose among several drawing styles with different detail levels. When using it, if your input photo/image already has very well defined, high contrast regions, turn the "Use smart strokes" option off.

Below I show a photo and a pencil sketch created from it. You can click the images for a full size viewing. More examples can be seen at this Photo Sketch gallery.

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New professional effects to make pencil sketches from photos

I have released some days ago a new tool called Photo Sketch. It has state of art, next generation effects to transform even the more detailed photos into very realistic pencil sketches or drawings (like the ones professional artists make by hand).

Below I show you the result of turning a photo into a pencil sketch. This tool has several sketch effect styles to choose from, and each result image is composed by thousands or even millions of carefully chosen strokes. Depending on the style you select, these strokes can be very delicated and detailed.

You can transform your photos into pencil drawings as well. To see many other awesome examples about the power of this new Picture to People feature, have a good look at the Photo Sketch Gallery.

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Drawing like a human - example 2

Here I show you the last "Real Pencil" example for a while. Can you see like the delicate strokes follow the photo structure? It's one of the more important features of this renderer.

As a complete project, this tool uses libraries that even I took hundreds of hours to develop. Anyway, it was a worthy effort, because the users feedback is very positive: they say it really can generate "human style" drawings.

I'm already working hard in several other Picture to People sub-projects. If everything keeps going well, there are some surprises coming.

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Drawing like a human - example 1

Here I show you a colorful example of Picture to People "Real Pencil" renderer in action.

This example photo was chosen because it has very clear curves. This way you can see very easily how the drawing trace respect and follow the input geometry locally and globally.

The third image is a zoom-in of a part of the second one. Realize like the drawing is made of a big amount of very small and delicate strokes, just as people are used to make by hand.

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Can a computer draw like a human?

I have been studying and researching about Computer Graphics for more than 15 years. A great part of this time I have spent researching about professional artistic filters and effects.

I was always facinated by the way humans produce art, mainly drawngs and paintings. I have always tried to create math models and algorithms able to make drawings like ones made by human hands.

Now I got closer to my intention. I have created a new model to draw based on photos. Here some of the main reasons that make this algorithm work "like a human":

- the final image is made of thousands of small and delicate strokes (many people are used to draw this way);

- each stroke is carefully chosen (the calculations are made stroke by stroke);

- strokes respect and follow the photo geometry globally (on purpose or not, drawers usually act like that).

Below I show you a simple example. You can easily realize the strokes follow the geometry of the input photo in a similar way many drawers do.

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Photos to pencil drawings (revisited)

I have tested some new accessory math models to improve my effects to transform photos in pencil drawings.

Some improvements are subtle, but interesting to achieve a more realistic result globally.

Above you can see a pencil drawing made using the new improvements. Its related photo can be viewed in one or more old posts below.

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Colorful drawings from photos again

Some people have been asking me about an effect to transform photos in drawings in a cleaner colorful way.

Here I show an example of the style they asked.

I'm still creating math models for that, but I have other priorities in P2P project now.

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