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How to make an awesome pencil sketch of any photograph

Step 4Edit the image into a great-looking black and white photo

Edit the image into a great-looking black and white photo
Use your simple editing software to first change the photo to black and white, and then play with the brightness and contrast until you get a great-looking black and white image.

This is a very imortant step. As you adjust the image, you may want to increase the contrast a bit more to give it a more "edgy" look. This step is lots of fun, because you get to plan what your final sketch will look like by playing around with the variables. If you are a photoshop guru you can really get something interesting.

Here is what I did with my photograph, by tweaking it in iPhoto:
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