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Watercolor girl

This may be of interest to anyone who uses Adobe Photoshop to aid them in the painting process. I found this techique in the book "50 Fast Photoshop Techiques". Perhaps this thread belongs in the computer forum - however, since I'm a watercolorist and used this techique to create a watercolor paintings I'll post it here. 

This technique can be used to create a quick black and white outline drawing from a color photograph. I found this really helpful when I wanted to paint from a photograph of a tea pot. I wanted the shape of the tea pot to be very percise and knew I couldn't get it as exact as I wanted by drawing it freehand. I try to copy it directly from the photograph but had trouble seeing the exact outline of it due to the shadows in the background. Then came across this technique...

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/13-Apr-2005/57725-originalteapot.jpg
Above is the original photograph. I scanned it into my computer and loaded it into Photoshop.

Once in Photoshop - I saved it as a Photoshop image. Here is the 5 step process for converting it to outline. 

1. Convert the image to grayscale or choose Image-Adjustments-Desaturate. 
2. Give the image more contrast by going to Image-Adjustments-Brightness/Contrast and adding contrast. 
3. Apply the edge-finding filter by going to Filters-Blur-Smart blur. Set the Radius to 5 and the threshold to 20 and click OK. 
4. Invert the lines by going to Image-Adjustments-Invert. 
5. Use the eraser tool or a mask to get rid of any extra lines.

I know this looks like a lot of work but it only took me minutes to do. Here is the result...

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/13-Apr-2005/57725-teapotoutline.jpg

I now had a clean outline of the tea pot to trace from. The details I added in by hand.

Hope this helpful to someone out there! :)