In this Gimp Workshop we are going to change
a color photo into a beautifull pencil drawing. The link for the image is in the description. For this tutorial I have chosen the image
of the woman with the hand by her face, but the other examples are made in exactly the
same way. Open your image folder, and bring by drag
and drop, the image into Gimp. Click the little zoom icon in the top right
to maximize the photo. Make two duplicates of the layer by clicking
the duplicate button in the layers panel. While the top layer is selected, we change
its mode from normal to dodge. Then we go to colors and we click invert. We don�t see much of our image now, but
that is how it should be for now. Go to filters, distort, and click value propagate. Enlarge the dialog box, by moving the cursor
on the edge and when it changes in a little double arrow, we can drag it outwards. Reposition the image in the preview window. Change the mode to black, which enlarges the
black areas in the image. If we want, we can click help button, and
then the gimp website will open and we can find more information about this particular
subject. Close the website and click ok in the dialog
box. Go back to filters and hit repeat value propagate. go back to filters again and hit repeat value
propagate one more time. Go to colors, desaturate, leave the option
lightness active and click ok. Nothing seems to happen, but when we make
the underlying layers invisible, we can see that the top layer is now black and white. Make the layers visible again and activate
the middle layer. Then we go back to colors and desaturate. Hit ok. Right click on one of the layers. Click merge all visible layers. We can leave the default settings as they
are and click merge. Now we go to colors and click curves. Here we can adjust the image to our liking. Its important to pay special attention to
the black of the lines, because the gray areas will be erased later on. When we feel its ok, we click ok. Click colors and then brightness and contrast. Make the brightness around minus 30 and the
contrast around plus 40. Make sure that there are still details in
the necklace. Click ok. Now we come to the part that is quite time
consuming but when we do this properly, we will be rewarded with a gorgeous result. Change in the toolbox the foreground background
colors so white is our foreground color. Then activate the paintbrush. We will start with brush �hardness 50. Leave the opacity on 100, and make the size
around 120. We will start with the background. Zoom in by holding the ctrl key and turning
the mouse wheel away from you. Start painting along the hairline. When we have gone to far, we can go to edit
and click undo. This can also be done with the shortcut Ctrl+Z. Its works best when we make multiple short
strokes, so when we have to undo, we can do this in little steps. When we press the space bar, the paintbrush
changes into the move tool and we can, by moving the mouse without clicking, move the
image. Then let go of the space bar and we have the
paintbrush again. Just rolling the mouse wheel, makes the image
move up or down. With the bracket keys we can change the size
of the brush. For some areas, like here by the hair,
and also for the face, we can reduce the opacity to around 75. In this way we paint most of the gray areas
white. To finish of, we are going to paint some white
spots in the eyes. Choose brush hardness 75. Zoom in to one of the eyes. Reduce the size of the brush with the left
bracket key and paint white in the eye around the pupil and
make a high light by clicking and or stroking. Make the other eye visible by sliding the
scroll bar. Then paint in the same way as you did the
first eye. When you feel its okay, go to view, zoom and
the fit image in window. And there we have it, a beautiful pencil drawing. I hope you enjoyed this video. Thanks very much for watching.
