coloring book images

[robroy6]

Using Kodak EasyShare software I can place and select an image in the Picture Tray and edit that image using "Fun Effects". One of the effects I like is the "Coloring Book". Selecting it I can make an image that is like a page in a coloring book. I produce a number of these images using family images and save and print them to make a coloring book for my granddaughter so she can color-in her family.

Can this be done with PSP-X?

 

[robroy6]

Here is an example of what the Kodak coloring book process can create:

I have tried various processes with PSP X but can not duplicate or even approach the coloring page from Kodak. Here are two of my attempts:

The closest is the top image using Art Media Effects - charcoal with detail 80 and opacity 100.

 

[ChrisHunt]

Here's one way to do it:

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/jennifer/photo-to-sketch.html

. The instructions are for Photoshop, but you should be able to do all the things she says in PSP.

Alternatively, Corel have a different approach at

http://www.corel.com/content/pdf/paintshop/tutorials/299ColoringBook.pdf

Some judicious Googling for "coloring book" and "Paint Shop Pro" or "Photoshop" should find more (there's more stuff out there for Photoshop, and most of it applies to PSP too).

I expect somebody, somewhere, has written a plug-in to do this too, but my brief search didn't find anything.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[robroy6]

Thanks, those links produced the results I was looking for.