# F8 photo to drawing trickery **URL:** \ **Category:** open source\ **Created:** [April 5, 2006, 3:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f8-photo-to-drawing-trickery/184432 "2006-04-05T03:40:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![devonair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@devonair](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/devonair)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 3:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f8-photo-to-drawing-trickery/184432/1 "2006-04-05T03:40:09Z")
An old Photoshop technique modified for Flash… Import an image, convert it to a movie clip named “image\_mc” and give this script a whirl: [AS]import flash.display._; import flash.filters._; // // make a copy of the image mc var imgCopy\_bmp:BitmapData = new BitmapData(image\_mc.\_width, image\_mc.\_height); imgCopy\_bmp.draw(image\_mc); // // make a copy of the copy which will be inverted and blurred var blur\_bmp:BitmapData = new BitmapData(imgCopy\_bmp.width, imgCopy\_bmp.height); blur\_bmp.draw(imgCopy\_bmp); // // attach the bitmap copies to movie clips var imgCopy\_mc:MovieClip = image\_mc.\_parent.createEmptyMovieClip(“cmc”, image\_mc.\_parent.getNextHighestDepth()); imgCopy\_mc.\_x = image\_mc.\_x; imgCopy\_mc.\_y = image\_mc.\_y; imgCopy\_mc.attachBitmap(imgCopy\_bmp, 0); // var traced\_mc:MovieClip = image\_mc.\_parent.createEmptyMovieClip(“tmc”, image\_mc.\_parent.getNextHighestDepth()); traced\_mc.\_x = image\_mc.\_x; traced\_mc.\_y = image\_mc.\_y; traced\_mc.attachBitmap(blur\_bmp, 0); // // invert and blur the top mc - blur value of 7 with low quality looks pretty good traced\_mc.filters = [new ColorMatrixFilter([-1, 0, 0, 0, 255, 0, -1, 0, 0, 255, 0, 0, -1, 0, 255, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0]), new BlurFilter(7, 7, 1)]; // // set the blend mode of the blurred mc to “add” //(in Photoshop, colordodge works best, but there is no colordodge mode in Flash, yet) traced\_mc.blendMode = 8;[/AS] here’s a quick [example](http://www.onebyonedesign.com/flash/traceImage/). (about 160k with no preloader) Can’t think of a good use, but it’s fun Flashturbation… ---
**Author:** ![treatkor](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/treatkor/32/680_2.png) [@treatkor](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/treatkor)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 4:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f8-photo-to-drawing-trickery/184432/2 "2006-04-05T04:18:59Z")
eyecandy! that’s real nice eyecandy. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f8-photo-to-drawing-trickery/184432/3 "2006-04-05T04:35:56Z")
I have no idea how it works, but it sure is pretty. :thumb: ---
**Author:** ![dreeft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@dreeft](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dreeft)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f8-photo-to-drawing-trickery/184432/4 "2006-04-05T04:39:25Z")
That’s pretty cool, could be used as a nice transition effect. ---
**Author:** ![hybrid101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7993a0/32.png) [@hybrid101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hybrid101)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 5:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f8-photo-to-drawing-trickery/184432/5 "2006-04-05T05:44:36Z")
very nice! i especially dig the color with line thickness set high:) great work man!:thumb: ---
**Author:** ![devonair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@devonair](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/devonair)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 6:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f8-photo-to-drawing-trickery/184432/6 "2006-04-05T06:09:00Z")
> [@hybrid101](#): > > very nice! i especially dig the color with line thickness set high:) > great work man!:thumb: Come to think of it, that might look nice applied to a video inside a movie clip… hmmm… incidentally, what I called “line thickness” in that example is actually the blur amount, so to get that effect with the posted script just raise that 7 to whatever… never tried adjusting the x or y blur either - that may be interesting… or not… ---
**Author:** ![RevoGiant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@RevoGiant](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RevoGiant)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 8:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f8-photo-to-drawing-trickery/184432/7 "2006-04-05T08:01:51Z")
great work. ---
**Author:** ![boohaha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@boohaha](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/boohaha)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 8:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f8-photo-to-drawing-trickery/184432/8 "2006-04-05T08:43:54Z")
It sure rocks… Nice job man!!! :thumb2: ---
**Author:** ![pips](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/pips/32/941_2.png) [@pips](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pips)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f8-photo-to-drawing-trickery/184432/9 "2006-04-25T21:30:45Z")
cool! ---
**Author:** ![codemonkeypete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b77776/32.png) [@codemonkeypete](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/codemonkeypete)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f8-photo-to-drawing-trickery/184432/10 "2006-04-25T22:05:22Z")
wow!.. as for possible implementation: might look sweet as a rollOver effect on an image thumbnail…