Gimp Tutorials - Convert Photo to Pencil Sketch / Effect using Gimp

Gimp is an open source, professional photo and image editor similar to Adobe Photoshop. It is 100% free and can be downloaded https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ Learn to use Gimp with these free tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqazFFzUAPc4vITMJaF3Fnqh3pccSMnC4 Steps: 1. Open the image in Gimp 2. Duplicate the image layer twice, to have 3 total layers with the same image. 3. Select the top layer and go to the menu Colors - Hue Saturation. Move the Saturation parameter to the left and click OK. 4. Set Overlay Mode for this layer set HSV Saturation 5. Select the middle layer and go to the menu Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur. Set the value from 5 to 9. Click OK 6. Next, color - value invert. Then set overlay mode to Dodge 7. Select the bottom layer and go to the menu Colors - Levels. For the middle slider set the value to 0.95 8. Click on the top layer and right-click New from Visible. A new top layer will appear. 9. Disable the visibility of the three lower layers 11. For the top layer Filters - Distorts - Emboss. Set the values as in the video, (the top value is 0, the average is 90, and the lower value is 2). Click OK. Next Colors - Levels left slider pull to the beginning of the chart. Subscribe for more Free Software info: https://www.youtube.com/tjfree?sub_confirmation=1 I'd love to connect with you on these socials: https://www.facebook.com/itstjfree https://www.instagram.com/itstjfree https://www.reddit.com/user/itstjfree https://twitter.com/itstjfree Visit my Website for Free Software Reviews and Tutorials: https://tjfree.com/ #gimp