Add a Sketch to a Mask

I like the artsy look of a sketch placed above a photo, especially combined with texture in FotoBlendz masks. While I have used Find Edges under Stylize in the Filter drop down menu, I don’t like the weight of the lines. So I’m experimenting again with different techniques for creating a sketch from photo. Below is the simplest version for creating a sketch that I know.

Start with a Photo

• Place photo on new 12×12 blank document in Photoshop.
• Resize photo.

Apply a Filter to Create Sketch

• Open the Filter Gallery from the Filter drop down menu in Photoshop.
• Choose Photocopy from the menu.
• Adjust the settings and click ok to apply.
• Turn off sketch.

Clip Photo to FotoBlendz Mask

• Clip original photo to mask 6 from FotoBlendz Overlays No. 15.
• Clip Levels adjustment layer to photo and change blend mode to Soft Light at 100%.

Adjust Blend Mode and Opacity

• Turn on sketch and clip to Fotoblendz mask layer.
• Change blend mode to Multiply at 50%.

Paper

• Open solid paper 5 from ArtPlay Palette Wellspring.
• Place below the Fotoblendz mask.

Cluster

• Place button, tag and flowers from ArtPlay Palette Wellspring.
• Place file 1G and 1F from MultiMedia Branches No. 13 below the flowers.
• Place lace from ArtPlay Palette Wellspring below the branch.
• Add splatters from Splatters No. 6 below the lace.
• Resize and tuck the frame from ArtPlay Palette Wellspring below the lace but above the splatters.
• Position word art from Outdoors WordART Mix No. 2 below the stem.

I have another sketch technique that I’m experimenting with that I hope to share in the next few weeks, something I’m trying to simplify within one Photoshop file. I really do like the lines created from a sketch with the texture in a mask like the one I used on this paper.