Those who want an automated solution might want to download the free FotoSketcher program that produces a wide range of effects from photos.A screenshot from the Procreate app (Image credit: Savage Interactive Party Ltd.)

Michael Wilson describes five effects used on a photo transformed to a pencil sketch InAffinity shows full color pencil sketch from a photo and conversion to impressionist artĪnd a water color splash and pencil sketch effect There are several more recent pencil sketch tutorials available:įrom Hubert Van den Borre (including links to macros) There are even macros that do the work automatically.įive years ago, Affinity Revolution postedĪ pencil effect macro from R C-R based on this video was discussed in the forums. There are several tutorials on using APhoto to convert a photo to a pencil sketch. That said, you'll have much more luck following the tutorial posted by Telemax.

The Gaussian Blur Filter must be nested, a child layer for it to work according to the PS tutorial. What I found is that the HSL used for reducing the saturation needs to be above the stack, not nested (child layer). Can anyone tell me what I could do to make it so? Apply Gaussian Blur (at 1.25 in the video)Īt this point the video shows that the image reappears.Set the blend mode to colour dodge (turns the image white) Reduce saturation entirely, which converts the image into black/white (grey scale) This is the sequence written out - and I'll stop where things no longer work for me: Because I was recently asked to do something very similar to what is shown in this video with Affinity Photo - but couldn't figure it out - I thought I try to emulate this with AP.

I found an interesting (but horribly produced) YouTube video which shows how you can convert a photo into a pencil sketch - but with Photoshop.

Affinity sketch