Whats the best way to get a line drawing from a photo? I 've seen some but they are not much good. Any recommendations?

J

You can try the autotrace feature in Illustrator, but this tends to be spotty. Much better is to hunker down and trace elements of the photo by hand. A quick search should come up with a couple good tutorials on how to do this best. I'm not particularly good at it myself (I've had very little need to do bitmap --> vector conversion), but what little I've done I've found to go pretty quickly.

Hi The, I was thinking of Photoshop using the filters. Thanks for that though.

J

ackk! Filters are the devil! lol j/k....but a Photoshop user knows to stay away from them! Anything more than a Gaussian blur is too much!

I suggest using Illustrator and the trusty pen tool :) Quite easy and quite fast but of course it takes practice I suppose. I know after using it for a while it became easier. Depending on the person, it could take about 15-30min for a simple outline drawing of a subject...then maybe a few more hours to add details to achieve an uncanny likeness. But that is just my opinion :)

it depends for me. people use the filter stroke, i don't quite like it.

most of the time i just use the pen tool. :)

I use Photoshop Elements 2 and i think the filters are pretty cool , but i don't use them cause there is really no need for most of them. I like the lighting effects one though. I found it hard to get good pixel effects from ps so i used paint for version 7 of my website (hanger12design.com)