Just to have some fun and make automatic photo retouching of your photos, it could be an idea to transform the photo into a drawing . Since it is really simple thanks to some automatic tools I would say that this idea can be realized in 5 minutes.
Converting a photo into a drawing means giving a pencil or painting effect, as if it had been drawn on a sheet of paper or even colored with crayons.
To transform photos into drawings, both images of landscapes and people's faces, you can use different types of free programs or even, without downloading anything, some web applications to be used directly online.
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1) Photofunia has, among its many tools, also that of the photo which automatically becomes a pencil drawing.
2) Pho.to is one of the most powerful web editing apps ever, which offers many effects to transform a photo or image into a pencil or even color drawing.
3) Among the best sites to turn photos into drawings online there is also Picjoke .
Just choose the type of design from the preview images and then upload the photo to see it transformed in that way.
4) One of the best programs for this kind of Instant Photo Sketch effect, specialized in rendering photos as if they were drawn in pencil or painted.
The program can be downloaded and installed in its free version found under the official website downloads, below, under the title " Other Software "
5) FotoSketcher is a free program that allows you to give the drawing effect to a photo, transforming it visually, as if it had been drawn freehand, in color.
Since it does nothing else, it becomes very easy to use this software: just open an image or photo that is on the computer and apply one of the proposed filters.
The different filters allow you to transform the photo into paintings made with different tools, not necessarily in pencil.
For example, you can use the pen and pencil effect (in black and white), ink, watercolor, oil painting and several others.
In the end, pressing the "Draw" key, you get, as a result, the image of the photo as if it were a sketch or a painting.
6) NeuralStyler is a program inspired by the Prisma app for Android and iPhone, to transform photos into paintings painted with different painting styles such as Van Gogh, Picasso, Munch or other famous artists or currents.
7) Photo2Stencil generates several transformations with a single click.
You can set the number of layers for the design, the level of smoothness, adjust the contrast, add a filter, change hue and saturation and much more.
You can also place the mouse cursor on the Compare button to change the preview from the drawing to the original photo and vice versa.
The final drawing can be downloaded in SVG and PNG format
8) RapidResizer.com is a simple and very useful website for converting photos into drawings, with several options available for transforming the photo into black and white models.
Sliders are available to adjust the black and white ratio, sharpness and other automatic options.
9) Stencil Graffiti Creator is a site that allows you to transform convert a photo into graffiti and drawings with different styles available for the background of the image and the image itself.
10) Photo 2 Sketch is even simpler so much that it doesn't even have a menu bar; only you have to open a photo from the program and you immediately get the transformation into a drawing.
The only thing that can be changed is a set of parameters to decide the size and thickness of the pencil, pen or crayon stroke which can be more or less heavy.
In reality there is a more complex paid version of this program although, I remember that this and many other kinds of graphic effects can be obtained with free photo editing programs such as GIMP or web applications such as Photoshop.
In other articles we had instead seen how to create portraits of faces and identikit of faces from scratch, and how to apply artistic effects by making the images of the paintings become abstract.
