Converting Photographs to Drawings

This is the original scanned photo of the house used as an office by the National Criminal Defense College (NCDC). As you can see, there are power lines and a car in this image.

Corel PhotoPaint was used to digitally remove the power lines and the car from the image. Since the original image was also a little tilted, the first thing done was to straighten it out a bit. It was then treated with several different filters from PhotoPaint and Adobe Photoshop to make the image appear to be a line or charcoal drawing, as well as providing the image with a more antiquated and stylized appearance. Finally, the image was darkened to blend with the overall site design.