DESCRIPTION: Use a photo and PI's pen and ink effect plus saturation to produce a colourfully painted lineart image and create a task at the same time.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Save as ufo file often.

1. Open the lake-ducks photo. If you want to, Ctrl D to make a copy to work on and close the original.

2. Create a task for this tutorial so you can reuse the effect on other images. Open the Quick Command Panel (QCP) by clicking its icon on the right of your workspace.

3. In your QCP, click on the Task tab and click on the Create a new task icon.



Enter a new task name. For example, I called mine "hillie-pen & ink" because I like to keep all my tasks together under my name. Click Record.

4. Return to your image and apply Effect / Artistic / Pen and Ink with the following settings:
Texture: 5
Size: 4
Brightness & Contrast at default: 10 & 20
Stroke Color: Source image
Tick Trace Edges and set the colour to #3C4352 by clicking on the colour box.
Thickness: 5
Threshhold: 1
Canvas: leave the colour set to white and no transparency

5. The original on the left changes to the right hand effects below. Click OK.

6. Go to Photo / Color / Hue and Saturation on the menu bar.

7. In the Hue and Saturation dialogue box, use the following settings to bring out the beautiful colours. Click OK.

8. In your QCP, click the little square black Stop button. You will see the list of tasks in the box.

9. After stopping recording, your QCP will look like this:

10. Save your image as a jpg via F4 on your keyboard:

How to use this task on other images by modifying properties:
Open a new photo. In your QCP you can do one of two things:

either hit Play and let it apply the default effects you've recorded
or first click on the Pen and Ink line and adjust the properties in the dialogue box that comes up and then click on Hue and Saturation and adjust those properties to suit.

This is the result of playing with the settings on one of my beach photos, mainly modifying the Hue and Saturation settings:

Thank you for trying out my tutorial :). I trust you've enjoyed it.

GALLERY OF PEN AND INK IMAGES created by my friends from the PhotoImpact International board.

Hillie © 2006