Can anyone please tell me how to get this effect? please

[max]

hello all... i am doing a box truck for a customer of mine. they have requested that they would like to use a picture of some of theyre work as a backgound for the layout. the trick is that they would like the picture to have the same effect as the attached photo (photo that turns into a line drawing).
i must say it is a nice effect... but an effect that i have never attempted before. would anyone happen to know how i can acheive this effect?
thanks so much for any info

 

[ChicagoGraphics]

Looks like all they did was take the bottom of that picture and had it vectorized leaving the top part as the original picture.

 

[MikePro]

layers in photoshop:
one with a clipped portion of the image you want to keep the image intact.
one with a clipped portion of the image you want to "sketch": Filter>Stylize>FindEdges

apologies for the sepiatone photo, i just happened to be working on it in photoshop right now:
(you can, also, desaturate the "sketched" portion to make it more like the photo you posted)

 

[peavey123]

In Photoshop Copy the image to a couple layers. To the top image (which will be the line drawing) you could achieve the effect using image > adjust > levels. drag the left and right arrow to the center until you achieve the desired effect. Find edges may or may not work depending on the picture. Then create a layer mask and "paint away the portions to reveal the photo undeneath. Adjust opacity of the top layer to get more creative with the layer mask. When done put the opacity back to 100%. BAM. Done.

 

[xxaxx]

In Photoshop Copy the image to a couple layers. To the top image (which will be the line drawing) you could achieve the effect using image > adjust > levels. drag the left and right arrow to the center until you achieve the desired effect. Find edges may or may not work depending on the picture. Then create a layer mask and "paint away the portions to reveal the photo undeneath. Adjust opacity of the top layer to get more creative with the layer mask. When done put the opacity back to 100%. BAM. Done.

+1 Pretty much word for word what I was going to suggest.

 

[noregrets]

Another method which I quite like....

in Photoshop.....


- Duplicate your layer
- Desaturate this new layer
- Duplicate that layer
- Change its blending mode to 'Color Dodge'
- Then do a 'Filter - Guassian Blur' and adjust the intensity of the blur for the desired effect.

If you want a bit of colour, take your original layer, and move it above the whole lot and change its blending mode to color.....

 

[rfulford]

High Pass combined with Threshold will give you the traced look. The rest is just layering.

 

[peavey123]

High Pass combined with Threshold will give you the traced look. The rest is just layering.

That's cool too. +1

 

[xxaxx]

High Pass combined with Threshold will give you the traced look. The rest is just layering.

Nice, Ive never tried the high pass threshold method, threw this together in like 30 secs and its good results. Thanks for the new technique.

 

[peavey123]

Nice, Ive never tried the high pass threshold method, threw this together in like 30 secs and its good results. Thanks for the new technique.

Same here, gotta love photoshop. So many ways to get things done. I use high pass all the time though. In photography It's the best way to sharpen images. Not unsharp-mask.

 

[max]

thanks guys for everything.... think i got it now.
just when i think i know enough to handle any graphics situation... i get thrown a new curveball like this one.
thanks again so much