Pencil Sketch (TheShock effect)

Hatter · **Posted:** Sun Jan 06, 2013 9:51 am **(#2)**

Nice tutorial. Here's my attempt.

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I had to reduce the opacity on the "Sketch2" layer to stop it being too dark, but otherwise I followed the tutorial exactly.

Here's my original photo:

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jamac4k · **Posted:** Sun Jan 06, 2013 10:27 am **(#3)**

# Hatter:

With your pic i get a different ouput than you.

Have you apply the second hard sketch filter on Visible layer?.

Hatter · **Posted:** Sun Jan 06, 2013 11:20 am **(#4)**

Probably not... that was the bit I was slightly unsure about.
On the Sketch2 step, I had G'MIC create another new layer, so I ended up with this:

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Should I just have applied G'MIC to the "Visible" layer?
If so, I didn't understand why it needed to be set to darken only first, then to grain merge.

jamac4k · **Posted:** Sun Jan 06, 2013 3:31 pm **(#5)**

May be my tut wil not understandable as i'd like.

All G'mic filter were applied in this order (bottom to top from Visible):

Hard Sketch 1 → Hard Sketch 1 Copy → Hard Sketch 2 (applied on Visible)

Visible Grain merge, 80%
Hard Sketch 1 Soft light mode
Hard Sketch 1 Copy Soft light mode
Hard Sketch 2 (applied on Visible) Darken only, 80 %

Sorry!!

Hatter · **Posted:** Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:40 pm **(#6)**

Second attempt - closer, but not the same as yours.

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Top layer: Darken Only, 80%
2nd Layer: Soft Light, 100%
3rd Layer: Soft Light, 100%
4th layer: Grain Merge 80%
5th layer: Normal 100%

jamac4k · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 5:22 am **(#7)**

#Hatter:

If you are doing all steps i don't understand what it's happen.
May be possible it's due that you are using a .psd file and me a Copied image from this tread?.

Anyway everyone is free to find his own style.

Upload my "How to" about Sparrow affaire.

Hatter · **Posted:** Wed Jan 09, 2013 7:02 pm **(#8)**

Thanks for your patience, Jamac. Apologies for being completely thick here!
As far as I can see, I've followed the instructions but my version just looks different!
We seem to be the same up to the Hard Sketch 2 stage but I'm clearly doing something wrong there.
I'm selecting 'Re-show G'MIC' - then changing the values to the Sketch 2 settings. This creates the new top layer, which I set to Darken only at 80% opacity. However, my version of this layer looks different to yours.

PDF of my intermediate stages attached.