
Photoshop Elements 3 Down & Dirty Tricks260
Faking Hand-Drawn Silhouette Illustrations
The inspiration for this technique came from a T-shirt I saw for a zoo. You start with objects or people in photographs and
convert them into silhouettes, and the final effect looks as if you drew the figures in Adobe Illustrator. In this project, we’re
going to build a design for a golf competition by converting a photo into a drawing.
STEP ONE: Start by opening the photo
that you want to change into a drawing.
Use any selection tool you’d like to put
a selection around the object (I used
the Magnetic Lasso tool). As usual, the
Magnetic Lasso tool didn’t do ...