I'm making a cake this friday for my sons friend.. I asked what does he like? He said he likes that Rap Artist Chamillionare.. I'm thinking who???
so he shows me a pic of this guy..I'm thinking how in the heck am I gonna make a cake with a human face on it.. So I did a search on photo to sketch and came up with this free download.. It's great!!!

http://www.thinkersoftware.com/photo-to-sketch/index2.htm

Here is the pic of the guy he wants me to put on the cake and the sketch of the pic.. WISH ME LUCK!!! my printer does not work.. After I added my photo to the program it gave me a sketched look.. ( you will have to work with the shading and lines a bit to get what your looking for) I taped wax paper onto my comp screen and traced it out with a marker..

man, I've tried to trace stuff like that before paper over the monitor......it's so hard kudos to you for having it turn out like the photo!!!! Also.....most photo editor softwares already have a tool for turning any photo into a black and white sketch......I do it all the time with pics of my kids.....never thought of using it on a cake......brilliant!!!

Wow, that's going to be a lot of work. But, it looks like you have it under control. I look forward to the photo of the finish cake.

Thank you for the web site. That will come in very handy.

Wow this great!! Thanks so much for sharing!!

Here is the final piece!!!

fantastic, that's amazing! well done

I will not show that one to my son, he will be 18 in November, and I honestly don't think that I would tackle that one! Great work...I think that guy is on my son's screen saver!!

BB, you did a fantastic job on this cake, I'm not sure I'd ever attempt one like it. Great work!
Janice

Wow thats just great, i cant believe that. Great cake and thanks for the link!

thats is awesome...thanks for the tip!!!

Awesome job on the cake...thanks for the link!

Fantastic...great detailing

Wow, you did a great job. I am so fascinated that we can take a photo and turn it into a sketch. I never would have thought we would have been talking about Chamillionaire on Cake Central! Once again you guys are awesome and Thanks For Sharing!!

Thanks for the site! That's cool

what a fantastic job!!!!! Thanks for sharing, I'm already having fun with the sketching.

That came out great. Can I ask how exactly did you do the transfer? What you used? I'd love to try it.

Thanks.

OH MY GOSH! THIS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER! you need to get some sort of prize for posting this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Geez, how in the world did you do that with all of the detailing. It is absolutely perfect. I think you should send it in to his publicist or whomever could show it to him. Who knows, you may be able to get a big order from your fabulous work on that image.

I downloaded the free version of the software, and it is great! However...I would like to know if anyone has upgrade to the paid versions, and if so what are the differces between the free version and the features of the paid!?!?

I really like the software, but I wish I could do more with it...just trying to decide on spending the $$ for the upgraded version!

i would like to know that too!

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Thanks for the site!! I downloaded it to my pc.

WOW that came out really awesome!!!

Thanks for the site !

I can't wait to try this! hmmm, what cake could i make next week? LOL> have 2 for this weekend and one for next weekend but it would sure be fun to fit one in just for giggles.

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Great job on the cake, it is brilliant! Also, thanks for the tip!

Thank you all so much!!! I had alot fun doing this.. It was so easy!!! I used all shortening buttercream.. NOW my daughter wants me to try another Rap Artist for her friends B-day on Friday.. I'll make sure to submit that too.. Thanks again!!
Christy

Amazing job on that cake.. I saved the site too..thanks for sharing..
Liz

Very cool! I'm trying to figure out if this free download is compatible with Macintosh computers . . . it doesn't seem to be but if anyone with a Mac figured out how to download it, please let me know!