Apply or remove an artistic effect from a picture

You can apply artistic effects to a picture or a picture fill to make the picture look more like a sketch, drawing, or painting. A picture fill is a shape or other object with a picture applied to "fill it." You can apply only one artistic effect at a time to a picture, so applying a different artistic effect will remove the previously applied artistic effect.

Original Picture 
Original picture

Picture with Photocopy filter 
Same picture with the Photocopy effect

Picture with Pencil Grayscale filter 
Same picture with the Pencil Grayscale effect

Note  Compressing a picture to reduce the file size changes the amount of detail retained in the source picture. This means that after compression, the picture can look different than before it was compressed. Because of this, you should compress the picture and save the file before applying an artistic effect. If you don't like the results of the compression and artistic effect, you can change the compression even after you save the file as long as you have not closed the program that you are working in.

Do any of the following:

Apply an artistic effect

Remove an artistic effect