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Here are the top things I’m grateful for.

YouTubes new video size.  I probably go to the site everyday. Yes everyday.

Adobe’s Student discounts.  I would pay a small fortune if they didn’t offer such huge deals to students.

Tarpipe, YouTube for social application addicts.

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Open a color image in Photoshop. To get the best sketch image, high contrast images are preferable. If it’s needed, you can adjust the image’s contrast (Image>Adjust>Brightness/Contrast)

Desaturate the layer that contains the image. You can desaturate by clicking on Image>Adjust>Desaturate.

Duplicate the desaturated layer. On the layer palette, you can duplicate the layer by right clicking on the previous layer and selecting the option of duplicating that layer.

Select and invert the duplicate desaturated layer. You can invert an image by clicking on Image>Adjust>Invert.

Notice that now, with the inverted layer selected, change the blending mode to “color dodge.”

Set the Gaussian blur to this layer. You can do that by clicking on Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Then you can set the radius in between 4.0-9.0. Choose the one that creates a nice sketch effect.

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Step 1: Open your image. Duplicate the background layer and rename it.

Step 2: Make sure your new layer (not the background) is highlighted and run menu option Image » Adjustments » Threshold… The default value in the Threshold dialog box is 128. For this image I made it 75, press OK when you have it where you want it.

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Step 3: With the threshold layer highlighted, run menu option Filter » Stylize » Diffuse… Select Anisotropic mode and press OK.Step 4:Run menu option Select » Color Range… Use the eyedropper to sample the black portion of the image, then run the Fuzziness slider in the Color Range dialog box up to 200. Press OK. The black portion of the image should now be surrounded by marching ants.Step 5: Run menu option Select » Save Selection… Give the selection a name and press OK. Now deselect. We’ll reload the selection later.

Step 6: Make a new layer on top of the others. Select the Paint Bucket tool. Set the tool to fill with a patern rather than a color and fill the new layer. I used one of Photoshop’s built-in patterns.

Step 7: Make another new layer on top of the others and fill it with white. Add a layer mask to this layer by pressing the Add Layer Mask button on the Layers palette.

Step 8: Run menu option Select » Load Selection… Choose the selection you saved earlier from the dropdown menu in the Load Selection dialog box and press OK.

Step 9: Run menu option Edit » Fill… Fill the selection with black (which should correspond to your current background color if the mask layer is highlighted). Though you’ve filled the selection with black, you won’t see black in the image. What you should see is the pattern fill from the layer below showing through where the selected mask was filled. Deselect.

Step 10: With the mask layer still highlighted, select the Brush tool and choose a large, hard-edged brush. (I used the size 19 brush.) Painting on the mask with white as the foreground color, paint over those parts of the image you might not need, assuming you see extra stuff that doesn’t need to be there.

Step 11: Select the Text tool, get a font you like and add some text.

Step 12: Run menu option Select » Load Selection… The correct entry will already be selected by default in the dialog box, so just press OK. The text should now be surrounded by marching ants.

Step 13: Turn off visibility of the text layer. The text will disappear but the marching ants will be left behind. (Deselecting right now would be bad.)

Step 14: Highlight the mask layer and make sure the mask portion of the layer is selected. Run menu option Edit » Fill… Fill the selection with black (which should correspond to your current background color if the mask layer is highlighted, just like the last time we did this). Once again the pattern fill should show through the mask, making the text look just like the rest of the image. Deselect.

Step 15: Done!

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