However, there's not much support for Sketch - there is no community forum and not many instructions. If you're an experienced designer however, the range of features and relative ease at designing is impressive. Advertisement (function() ) Īlthough Sketch is certainly easier to use than Dreamweaver, it's still not a tool that beginners to design will find very manageable. If your image was too blurry to start with, these apps should help.Sketch is a powerful graphic design tool aimed mainly at professionals in web design and interactive multimedia fields. Move the slider so that the sketch loses some sharpness – this will make it more realistic.

Finally, go to the menu Filters, Blur, Gaussian Blur.

This way, it will look more like a pencil drawing. Now decrease the Opacity of the layer so that the blacks are not so dark.Click OK to apply – you can come back to it and adjust as many times as you want. At the bottom, you’ll find the Blend If section – hold the Alt key and click on the right slider of the Underlaying Layer and drag it to the left until you see a little bit of the texture coming through the sketch. Double-click on the right side of the layer in the Layers panel – this will open the Layer Style dialog box.Adjust the settings of the filter if you want, or leave the default values if you’re satisfied with how it looks.Open the folder Sketch and choose the filter Graphic Pen. Go to the menu Filter, Filter Gallery.

Now that both layers are one smart object change the Blend Mode to Multiply – this will hide the white background of the smart object.Then, right-click on them and choose Convert to Smart Object. Select the top layer and the white layer.Add a white solid color layer in between the two layers that you currently have.Then, use a layer mask to hide all the areas that you won’t need in the final picture and use a soft edge brush to erase the hard borders of the subject.

Then paste (as a second layer) the image that you want to turn into a sketch.

Start with a base photo of a sketchbook.

Free mac sketch app