I love your work, and your brushes and LUTs of course which I purchased a few days ago! I am not sure if it's suitable for a tutorial or even possible to be honest, but is there a way make the pencil sketch look a bit more like someone actually drew it? I always find the finished document looks like it has been generated, not drawn, which is I suspect not surprising!
Thanks for posting. This was a great example for me to learn how to put together different parts of Affinity into layers and groups, so you have a working project. Such a useful template for me to use creatively too. I have struggled for a while with the basics of this program, but now I can follow tutorials like this one , and this really helped me see how you can isolate the various tweaks into layers and then subgroups.
I watched several other Affinity tutorials for creating sketches from photos. This was by far the best! So glad you included the shadow trick omitted by the others. Can't wait to try it... Very interested in applying these techniques to creating coloring pages from public domain art and original photos. Thanks!
Thank you for this tutorial. I worked in affinity alongside your instructions which were perfectly clear and easy to follow! I look forward to watching more of your excellent tutorials :)
Following your detailed instructions had me pulling out my hair because I missed a step or two and had to pause and rewind several times. Yes, I was successful learning the technique. Taking notes and a willingness to experiment with the tools assures enhanced creativity. Thank you, again, Olivio. Your special sauces look good too.
This is really a interesting tutorial. A bit complicated but good to know all the techniques used. Need some times to figure out what is the theory behind. Thanks.
This is so much faster. You're doing in one AP project what I do in about 3. I still export out a thick line and thin line version, then matte paint between to get the detail I want. You're method does that with the bw/color slider adjust, and with the paper/texture already at the bottom of the layer stack, you're seeing the end result in the first (and only needed) session/project. Excellent! I'll give this a try next time I do the trace efx.
Hi Olivio! I have been following your channel for a few years now and using and practicing with your tutorials (which are all great by the way). This particular tutorial you have on PHOTO to SKETCH is by far the best PHOTO to SKETCH tutorial on the internet. Some may be quicker with fewer steps, but this tutorial gives you absolute control on how you want your image to look on a variety of backgrounds. I had to make a macro because I use it so much.
I clicked on this thinking someone stole my Imerge Pro tutorial! (Curtosy of unsplash) None the less, I watched it. I love the paper texture touch. Thanks Olivio. You're the greatest.
This is the best method I have seen so far to convert a photo into a pencil drawing ..hands down! that said, nothing will replace a real life hand drawn portrait.
This is kinda the DoG-Filter (Difference of Gaussians), which essentially finds edges, similar to Sobel, but more visually pleasing I guess. Great idea.
Hey Olivio. New to Affinity photo. i saw on this video at the beginning you managed to create the light paper texture. I followed your instructions but i get no paper texture at all. How do you get this? Can you help?
Hi Olivio, I was wondering if you had a tutorial on making scroll saw patterns out of photos? I think some of the effects I saw in this video might work towards it but would like to see one specifically for creating patterns to cut into wood. Thank you
Hello, can you create tutorial how make color book for kids from picture for example horse? I just want to know how can I delete shadows etc. to give children more space to coloring
I am so glad I found your page! I am using affinity photo on my ipad pro. Can I do most of the things you did on the pc on my ipad? For example, the stocks so I can find that brown paper layer???
@@OlivioSarikas You do a fantastic job. I have several courses I'm trying to complete on Udemy, and then I'm going to try out your Patreon channel. I want to do it all, but I have to have a "little" discipline. Meanwhile, thanks so much for the wonderful RUclips videos!
Hi Anne, thank you very much. My Patreon doesn't have any extra tutorials btw. - it's the same content as here. The only difference is that you get my files and also the monthy Packs based on your Patron Level :)
That’s okay. Having files is helpful, and you deserve support. I save a lot of your videos, but I want to go through your channel and create my own playlist.
@@OlivioSarikas The little box with the slider never came up. I had to go somewhere else. Sadly, I could never get this to work but figured out another way. Thanks! 🤓
Boy, graphics people sure have a different idea of what a sketch is, than artistic people. This result looks like what it is: a photo made monochrome, flat areas of texture filtered out, and areas of strong contrast (lines) punched up - like selective sharpening. To me, it looks nothing like a sketch. A sketch is a loose, artistic impression of a scene, with all the expressive distortions, selective omission, and quirks that quick linework entails. If anything, this is a bit like the initial linework of hyper-realistic drawing, which a niche of (rather obsessive) artists fall into! But most of them also do the shading & tones, which this mostly lacks.
First of all: I am an Artist with a Masters Degree in fine Art. Do you have a Masters Degree in Art? Secondly: Your idea of what a sketch is, is severely Limited. We aren't living in the times of Rembrandt anymore. ever heard of art styles like Hyper-realism for example? And thirdly and most importantly: This is a photo effect, so yes it looks like a photo - duh!
@@OlivioSarikas Nope, you win - your degree is bigger than mine! The point I was making was to do with your vid title, which calls that result a 'sketch'; I didn't think that was a good description.. Did you read where I referred to hyperrealism in my Comment? But that style isn't _sketching_, is it? That's ... an ultra-careful _drawing _ style - which, as I suggested, usually also has very careful shading and light effects, which your example doesn't. I think my definition of 'sketching' is about right. But boy, I feel powerful - I sure got you riled up!
Thx for watching. What Tutorial should i do next? :)
I would like to know how to the glitch photo effect. Thanks
How about another quick and easy photo manipulation as promised.... perhaps with some more of your secret sauce!
Please make a man without beard a beard. ☺️
I love your work, and your brushes and LUTs of course which I purchased a few days ago! I am not sure if it's suitable for a tutorial or even possible to be honest, but is there a way make the pencil sketch look a bit more like someone actually drew it? I always find the finished document looks like it has been generated, not drawn, which is I suspect not surprising!
I'd like one about skywriting, simulating text written in the sky with an aeroplane.
Wow. Fantastic - it works so well. Thank you for your clear explanation.
Thanks for posting. This was a great example for me to learn how to put together different parts of Affinity into layers and groups, so you have a working project. Such a useful template for me to use creatively too. I have struggled for a while with the basics of this program, but now I can follow tutorials like this one , and this really helped me see how you can isolate the various tweaks into layers and then subgroups.
Always the best tutorials!
I watched several other Affinity tutorials for creating sketches from photos. This was by far the best! So glad you included the shadow trick omitted by the others. Can't wait to try it... Very interested in applying these techniques to creating coloring pages from public domain art and original photos. Thanks!
Thank you for this tutorial. I worked in affinity alongside your instructions which were perfectly clear and easy to follow! I look forward to watching more of your excellent tutorials :)
Following your detailed instructions had me pulling out my hair because I missed a step or two and had to pause and rewind several times. Yes, I was successful learning the technique. Taking notes and a willingness to experiment with the tools assures enhanced creativity. Thank you, again, Olivio. Your special sauces look good too.
You are awesome! Your tutorials are fantastic and are really helping me understand how to use Affinity Photo!
Thank you!!
Good stuff Olivio. I want to try this technique and print onto my watercolor texture paper.
I loved it, a few things changed with the new version of Affinity 1.9.1 but I did manage to figure it out! Thanks keep the videos coming!
Thanks for another great tutorial, Olivio. I’m so glad I discovered you and your channel.
Hi Tina, thank you very much. Welcome to my channel :)
Fantastic tutorial Olivio. Thank you!
This is really a interesting tutorial. A bit complicated but good to know all the techniques used. Need some times to figure out what is the theory behind. Thanks.
This is so much faster. You're doing in one AP project what I do in about 3. I still export out a thick line and thin line version, then matte paint between to get the detail I want. You're method does that with the bw/color slider adjust, and with the paper/texture already at the bottom of the layer stack, you're seeing the end result in the first (and only needed) session/project. Excellent! I'll give this a try next time I do the trace efx.
Fabolous Olivio! Love your tutorials!
Thank you, Grethe :)
Hi Olivio! I have been following your channel for a few years now and using and practicing with your tutorials (which are all great by the way). This particular tutorial you have on PHOTO to SKETCH is by far the best PHOTO to SKETCH tutorial on the internet. Some may be quicker with fewer steps, but this tutorial gives you absolute control on how you want your image to look on a variety of backgrounds. I had to make a macro because I use it so much.
Awesome. Thank you for the high praise and thank you for being a long time follower :)
Been waiting for this!!!! Thank you
Thank you, Crismi. Happy i could fulfill your wish :)
Love this! Keep it up!!!
Great explanation Olivio. Toujours agréable de vous suivre.
Thank you, Benjamin :)
I clicked on this thinking someone stole my Imerge Pro tutorial! (Curtosy of unsplash)
None the less, I watched it. I love the paper texture touch.
Thanks Olivio. You're the greatest.
Always fantastic content - great work, thanks...
Thank you, Ricky. That's very nice of you :)
Thnx for this. Very helpful!
Awesome tutorial.. Thank you sir 👍👍
Interesting method, thanks Olivio! 🥇
You are welcome, patrick :)
Jeez you are a magician! That was great!
Thank you, Jeff. Very nice to read that :)
Great, thank you!
Thanks so much. The sketch looks so natural. I am using affinity photo on ipad. I can’t wait to try this 🙂
Thank you. Mohan. Hope this works out for you. Fell free to share your creation on Reddit :) www.reddit.com/r/AffinityPhotoTuts/
Great tutorial Olivio.
Thank you, Enrique :)
Genius!
I like this one.
Thank you, you save my life
This is the best method I have seen so far to convert a photo into a pencil drawing ..hands down! that said, nothing will replace a real life hand drawn portrait.
Hi Ed, thank you so much. Yes, i agree, nothing beats a real good sketch. But this photo editing style certainly has it's charm too :)
Great tutorial, can it be done with black background and chalk style drawing?
Great !
This is kinda the DoG-Filter (Difference of Gaussians), which essentially finds edges, similar to Sobel, but more visually pleasing I guess. Great idea.
Awesome
Awesome!
Thank you, Kat D :)
I wonder if this can be used to do a da vinci style sketch like they do in photoshop
Hey Olivio. New to Affinity photo. i saw on this video at the beginning you managed to create the light paper texture. I followed your instructions but i get no paper texture at all. How do you get this? Can you help?
Hi Olivio,
I was wondering if you had a tutorial on making scroll saw patterns out of photos? I think some of the effects I saw in this video might work towards it but would like to see one specifically for creating patterns to cut into wood. Thank you
Hello, can you create tutorial how make color book for kids from picture for example horse? I just want to know how can I delete shadows etc. to give children more space to coloring
I am so glad I found your page! I am using affinity photo on my ipad pro. Can I do most of the things you did on the pc on my ipad? For example, the stocks so I can find that brown paper layer???
Hi joe, i don't have an iPad, but from what i heard, it has mostly the same functionality as the desktop version
what is this version of affinity - gaussian blure not working like this at my side.... :/
Brand secret sauce makes this simple technique very elegant)
Thank you, Бонис Бонус
Hi Olivio what software is that please?
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Very good results, but it's actually quicker to actually draw. provided you can draw!
Hey Olivio - do you offer private lessons on Affinity?
i tried, but i'm not the type for that
Is there any filter to do that automatically?
search for "gmic" on google. it's a plugin, but it only works on windows. I have a video about it on my channel
@@OlivioSarikas I didn't know that gmic works with Affinity too. Thanks.
in Photoshop you can edit video,,, can you edit video in Affinity???
No you can't. I would suggest you use a dedicated software like Davinci Resolve for that.
can you make videos on turn photo into
anime style
no, sorry, because that would be Illustration a i do photo-editing. there might be presets for photoshop that can do that, but not for affinity photo
How do you know all this stuff?!
Hi Anne, training tests and experience :) - also research on the internet ;)
@@OlivioSarikas You do a fantastic job. I have several courses I'm trying to complete on Udemy, and then I'm going to try out your Patreon channel. I want to do it all, but I have to have a "little" discipline. Meanwhile, thanks so much for the wonderful RUclips videos!
Hi Anne, thank you very much. My Patreon doesn't have any extra tutorials btw. - it's the same content as here. The only difference is that you get my files and also the monthy Packs based on your Patron Level :)
That’s okay. Having files is helpful, and you deserve support. I save a lot of your videos, but I want to go through your channel and create my own playlist.
Gaussian Blur live never came up. :(
i'm not quite sure what you mean by that
@@OlivioSarikas The little box with the slider never came up. I had to go somewhere else. Sadly, I could never get this to work but figured out another way. Thanks! 🤓
@@jenniferressmannwriter do you maybe have a second screen connected to your computer? because AP sometimes places them there
@@OlivioSarikas How nice of you to respond again. I don't have a second screen. Maybe my program is older than yours. :)
How come your beard isn’t red like prior videos. Looks good either way.
Hi mr, this was a prerecorded video from when i didn't have it colored yet ;)
Boy, graphics people sure have a different idea of what a sketch is, than artistic people. This result looks like what it is: a photo made monochrome, flat areas of texture filtered out, and areas of strong contrast (lines) punched up - like selective sharpening. To me, it looks nothing like a sketch. A sketch is a loose, artistic impression of a scene, with all the expressive distortions, selective omission, and quirks that quick linework entails. If anything, this is a bit like the initial linework of hyper-realistic drawing, which a niche of (rather obsessive) artists fall into! But most of them also do the shading & tones, which this mostly lacks.
First of all: I am an Artist with a Masters Degree in fine Art. Do you have a Masters Degree in Art? Secondly: Your idea of what a sketch is, is severely Limited. We aren't living in the times of Rembrandt anymore. ever heard of art styles like Hyper-realism for example? And thirdly and most importantly: This is a photo effect, so yes it looks like a photo - duh!
@@OlivioSarikas Nope, you win - your degree is bigger than mine! The point I was making was to do with your vid title, which calls that result a 'sketch'; I didn't think that was a good description.. Did you read where I referred to hyperrealism in my Comment? But that style isn't _sketching_, is it? That's ... an ultra-careful _drawing _ style - which, as I suggested, usually also has very careful shading and light effects, which your example doesn't. I think my definition of 'sketching' is about right. But boy, I feel powerful - I sure got you riled up!
Learn to draw....Worlds gone lazy mad....
Learn to think. Your comment is as smart as saying "go outside, lazy boy" to someone who has a landscape painting on their wall.