Contemporary Photos

Change photo of house into a line drawing? Software?

I'd really like to convert a photo of a house into a line drawing/pencil sketch. I'm not looking for anything amazing, just something to give the photo a cool effect. Mostly, I'm looking for something free.

there are some tools online with effects ,

Blibs LunaPic
http://www73.lunapic.com/editor/
Wiredness: Image Manipulation
http://www.wiredness.com/

some programs have pencil sketch filter effects as well,
Photofiltre
http://photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm
Photoscape : Photo Manipulating Suite,
http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php
Gimp ~image editor,
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

and there are some plugin effects you can try to use with programs like photoshop,
akvis sketch
http://akvis.com/en/sketch/examples-pencil-drawing.php
alienskin snapart
http://www.alienskin.com/snapart/index.html

another option is to adjust picture to grayscale and contrast before using filters, try various other filters as well for b&w output and outline,

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