Portrait out of a Newspaper Clipping

This tutorial for AKVIS Sketch was created by Gordon Sisson. Gordon uses the Sketch plugin in this tutorial, but you can take the standalone edition and use the same parameters to achieve this result.

The author writes: "AKVIS Sketch offers a unique opportunity to create delightfully unusual graphic effects from ordinary photographs and drawings. I wanted to show a use of the plugin that would be a little different. I had the transformation of a newspaper clipping from which I created a color portrait of an old friend."

Newspaper clipping Result
Original Image Result

 

Gordon describes the process:

Here is a brief description of the original transformation before I get to the color picture from which I did the AKVIS Sketch magic.

Preprocessing:

Black and white portrait colorized with AKVIS Coloriage
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Now I will see what I can do with Sketch:

Here is the resulting charcoal sketch. A classy rendition of a very ordinary photograph that started with a newspaper clipping.

Charcoal sketch
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Now back to the color photograph to ask AKVIS for a color sketch:

 

For more of a sketch look, let’s try another AKVIS plugin — AKVIS Noise Buster.

Using Noise Buster:

Here is the finished sketch, a great victory for AKVIS Sketch plugin with a little help from AKVIS Noise Buster:

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