Photo to sketch

To turn a photo into a pencil sketch, upload it and press Make the edit. Pencil sketch is already set: the picture is redrawn with fine graphite lines and soft hatching on white paper, keeping the people, poses and composition, not traced through an edge filter. Make the sketch with any DreamBench plan and download it full size.

No. It isn't an edge filter or a trace: the model draws the picture again in pencil from what it sees, keeping the people, poses and composition recognizable. That is why it looks drawn rather than processed, and also why small details, lettering and patterns can simplify or shift.

Photos with clear light and shadow: side light on a face, sun on a building, a pet by a window. The hatching follows the shadows, so a flat, evenly lit or dim photo gives a flatter sketch. Keep the subject large in the frame; a small face in a wide shot comes back as a few lines.

Yes, the sketch prints: it downloads as a full-size JPEG in your photo's proportions, up to 2048 pixels on its long edge, for plain paper, card or photo paper. At 300 dots per inch, every 300 pixels on an edge make one inch of print, so enlarge it with the AI image upscaler for a large frame; it adds pixels without redrawing the lines.

A photo-to-sketch result works as a tattoo reference rather than the stencil itself: a pencil sketch has hatching and gray tone, and a stencil wants clean single lines, so your artist redraws it. The same goes for engraving and embroidery patterns. For plain black outlines closer to a stencil, use the coloring page maker.

No, there is no setting: the model decides the lines from the photo. A photo with strong side light and the subject large gives denser hatching and more detail; a flat, evenly lit one gives a lighter, sparser sketch. Crop closer to the subject for a simpler drawing.

Yes, but the sketch comes back weaker: the hatching follows light and shadow, and a blurred or dim photo has little of either. Sharpen a blurry photo with the unblur tool first, or pick a brighter photo of the same subject.

Not on this page: it draws in pencil only, graphite lines and hatching on white. For outlines in black, the coloring page makes clean line art; for color, the photo-to-cartoon converter has a watercolor style.

Yes, with the same number of people kept in their places. Each face is drawn from the pixels it has, so small faces in a large group come back as a few lines; a group taken close sketches best.

No. Making a sketch needs a DreamBench plan, and you create an account on the way to it. The button shows each run's price in credits before you press it, and a run that fails is refunded.

Not on this page: a pencil sketch is graphite on white, so the colors of your photo become shades of gray, and the paper is white with no transparency, because the file is a JPEG. For color with a drawn look, the photo-to-cartoon converter has a watercolor style, soft washes over pencil lines.

Yes, in either phone's browser, with no app to install. Choose the photo from your camera roll, an iPhone's HEIC photo included, press Make the edit, and download the sketch full size. Each run takes one photo and makes one sketch; there is no batch upload, and the download carries no DreamBench watermark.

In Photoshop, yes: the classic recipe blends a desaturated, inverted and blurred copy of the photo over itself, which traces its edges into a pencil look. The iPhone's Photos app has black-and-white filters but no sketch. This page draws the picture again, with hatching, rather than tracing it.

The sketch is drawn at about 1.4 megapixels in your photo's proportions: a 3:2 photo comes back at about 1456 by 960 pixels. A 12-megapixel phone photo is smaller after the sketch, and the photo is read at no more than 1536 pixels on its long edge, so sharpness matters more than size. For a large print, enlarge it with the AI image upscaler.

A photo is declined when the first model refuses it under its content rules, which cover some photos of real people. A photo it declines is tried once on a second model, on the same payment, with the same pencil instruction. Only when both decline is the run refunded, so a sketch you did not get is never charged for. A run that fails is refunded too.

At A4 the sketch prints softer than at a card size. A 3:2 sketch of about 1456 by 960 pixels prints at about 12 by 8 cm at 300 dots per inch; filling an A4 sheet brings it down to about 125 dots per inch, so lines look softer up close. For A4 near 300 dots per inch, enlarge it first with the AI image upscaler.

A run starts at 13 credits from your DreamBench plan, depending on the photo, and once you have a plan the button shows each run's price before you press it. Starter, $9.99 a month, includes 1,100 credits a month, at least 57 runs of the Photo-to-sketch converter, plus AI video. A run that fails is refunded.

Yes: a free account and a DreamBench plan. The tools are part of every plan, from Starter at $9.99 a month.

A photo up to 40 megabytes: JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC or another format your browser opens. A photo straight from a phone is fine, an iPhone's HEIC included: the page scales a large picture down to 2048 pixels on its long edge before the run, so the result is never larger than the page says.

Yes. Under the DreamBench Terms you may use what a tool makes for personal and commercial purposes, including advertising, monetized content and work for clients, with no separate commercial-use upgrade. The Terms don't guarantee copyright in a result or clear another person's rights in your upload, so only use photos you have the rights to.

No. DreamBench doesn't use your prompts, uploads or videos to train or fine-tune AI models, and any future training program would be opt-in.

It stays in your browser until you make a result. Then it is used to make that result and nothing else, and removed from the tool's storage after seven days along with the result. A result you keep in your library stays as long as you keep it.