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After some tinkering and fine-tuning I bolted the two together in a new recipe that layered up toning, colouring, shading and inking into a look that’s as close as I’ve ever seen to a hand-drawn-and-coloured comic book panel. But it was lacking a little something, it was still a bit too clean.Īfter a renewed search for ‘photos to sketches’ effects I found what I wanted in a tutorial on giving shadows a hand-inked look, kind of cross-hatch effect. Sadly it’s gone now but at the time they had a great (and long!) Photoshop tutorial that I was excited to find almost nailed the look I was after, particularly the smudgy colours and inky details.

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But while there was no shortage of tutorials, plugins and apps offering variations on the comic-style look, the end results all tended to look a bit too much like a photograph and not enough like a comic book illustration.Įventually the trail led me to a site called MacMerc, full of creative resources for Mac users. I figured I could do better in Photoshop so, grand visions in my mind, off I went on a hunt for comic book effects online. (We’ve since split up, this is quite an old post!)īeing a bit of a perfectionist I’m afraid that much as I love Comic Life I thought its comic book photo filter was a bit weak. A few years ago I bought a fantastic app for building comic book layouts called Comic Life Magiq (now Comic Life 3, $29.99 for Mac & PC from from their site, or on the Mac App Store) and I decided to use some vacation photos to make a comic about my then-wife’s two year old nephew as a Christmas present for them both. I love getting lost in a personal photography project, particularly when the end goal is a gift for family or friends.

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I’ll let you know how to download it for free, and then keep reading for a breakdown of how it all works. I’ve used it to make loads of comic-book photo projects for family and friends. A few years back I cobbled together a few different Photoshop actions I found around the web to create a comic book effect that’s full of eye popping, realistic-looking colouring, inky black outlines and a great hand-shading effect that really sells the finished image.