Pastel Sketch

Tutorials - GIMP

Last Updated on Friday, 17 June 2011 07:35 Friday, 17 June 2011 07:30

Pastel Sketch is an Artistic effect for your images/ photographs in the GNU Image manipulation program. You can download GIMP from gimp.org, it is a cross platform Free photo editing program.

Open an image that you want to apply effect to in GIMP. Then click on the menus
FX-Foundry > Artistic > Pastel sketch

That will open the Script-Fu: Pastel sketch dialog window. The available settings are Detail level, Sketch Length, Sketch Amount, Angle and Canvas texture. If you are using this for the first time leave the settings to its default, and press Ok. That will generate the pastel sketch effect to your image. If you want to keep your original image intact then save the image with a different name from
File > Save as..

Once you get familiar with this effect you can play around with the settings in the Script:Pastel sketch dialog. You can see how an image would look like when you make changes by pressing the Ok button. If you want to undo the change use
Edit > Undo Pastel sketch

And also you can use the Reset button in the dialog box to go back to the default settings.