'Sketch' Tutorial

This is a tutorial on how to make an image like the one of me in the HWF gallery (It looks like a sketch, it's really not a sketch or sketch effect though) using Photoshop.

Open your document, for this I'll be using a picture of me

Desaturate the picture by Holding Shift + CTRL and pressing U (Or going Image > Adjustments > Desaturate)



Duplicate the background layer. Now go to FIlter > Stylize > Find Edges.



Now lower the opacity of the layer slightly to allow the desaturated layer to show through slightly (I used 70% opacity)



Now make an oval selection in the middle of the image.



Now go to Select > Feather and enter a value - I used about 80px for my image.

Now invert the selection (CTRL + Shift + I)

Create a new layer.

Set your foreground colour to white, choose the gradient tool and make sure it has the White > Transparent setting. Select the Radial gradient (the icon looks like a light circle with a dark outer edge, second icon from the left) and the 'Reverse' option on the top bar (next to the opacity setting). Now drag from the middle of the oval shape in the middle to the edge of the image.

You should now be left with something like this:



Now just add some text if you want and there you have it, quite a cool effect I think.

-Matt