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Photoshop: Hand Drawn Design
In case you haven’t noticed yet, the hand drawn style is one of the hottest design trends. There are several ways to create hand drawn images — you can create it from scratch in Photoshop or you can scan an actual hand drawn sketch. Personally, I like to use a scanned drawing because you get a realistic drawing texture. Here is a quick tutorial to show you how to create a hand drawn design in Photoshop using the blending mode and alpha channel.
1 Create From Scratch in Photoshop
If you have a tablet, you can simply draw the sketch by using the brush tool.
Don’t Have a Tablet?
If you don’t have a tablet, you can create the artwork in Adobe Illustrator and then imitate a hand drawing effect in Photoshop.
First draw a vector illustration. Then import it in Photoshop. Use a grungy brush and gently erase select parts of the image. Use the Blur tool to create the smug effect.
2 Scan It
The easiest way — scan the drawing and set the layer blending mode to Multiply.
Invert Color
If you want to have a white color stroke instead of black — go to menu Image > Adjustments > Invert (or press shortcut Cmd+i) and then select Screen blending mode.
Step It Up: Create Color Gradients
What if you want more than just a black or white stroke (ie. colors gradients)? Then you will have to extract the drawing from the white background. A simple way to do this is by using alpha channel.
- Copy (Cmd+C) the drawing.
- In the Channels palette, create a new channel. Then paste the drawing in the new channel.
- Invert (Cmd+i) the channel layer.
Go back to the Layers palette, create a new layer. Go to menu Select > Load Selection. In the Load Selection prompt box, select Channel: "Alpha 1" (which is the name of the alpha channel I created earlier).
Shortcut Tip: the shortcut for loading a channel selection is Cmd + Opt + any number key (ie. 1, 2, 3). Learn more Photoshop shortcuts.
Fill Selection
With the channel selection loaded, you can fill it with any color.
Using It In The Design
For the purpose of this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to incorporate your hand drawing on a female model (the photo was purchased from iStock).
1. First, cut out the model.
2. Fill the background with some sort of light glowing gradients.
3. Paste the drawing on top of the model. Lock the layer transparency. Play around with the color gradients.
4. Duplicate the drawing in the background to add more details to the image.
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147 motsutha
August 27th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
uaou verry goooooood, beautifull…….
146 Ekhlas
August 26th, 2008 at 4:06 am
Thx a lot for this tutorial. I’ve been always searching for a way to incorporate a drawing into my design. Thx again
145 Righey http://TrueGFX.org/
August 21st, 2008 at 3:25 am
nice…….. thanks for the tutorial……..!
144 ergin http://www.aktifcozum.com.tr
August 19th, 2008 at 9:49 am
nice tutorial…
143 Jay http://exinspire.com
August 18th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
That was really helpful, surprisingly, I limited channels to one color, why? I don’t know why till now. Thank you!
142 film izle http://www.film.izlesek.org
August 18th, 2008 at 4:17 am
wow
141 Peter http://ostblog.kombinat.cz
August 17th, 2008 at 9:59 am
nice… pretty good work…
140 masoud http://www.maraqeh.com
August 16th, 2008 at 9:19 am
very goooooood!
139 soraya martell
August 14th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Iam not profecional buy I would like to make a nice imagines to decorate face books and my lenguage is spanich and is to hard to explein to you thanks..
138 details http://justthegritty.blogspot.com/
August 14th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
nice tut. i like the more advanced stuff you offer (such as alpha channels) — i don’t always thing of doing that.
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