Actually its quite easy but a little time comsuming. The very basics. You get your clip of video. Stop it at the frame you wish to put the effect onto. Take a snapshot of it using the tiny camera logo.

Then you find and download this free program. "Fotosketcher" Load your snapshot upto it. First convert the original to a pencil sketch, obviously keeping the original photo too. Save that as say photo B, pencil sketch. Then convert again the orginal photo this time to a colour cartoon or oil painting type save it as C. Original photo we will call A.

Import all three photos into PD12. Put A, the orginal photo, down in track 3 video. B into track 2 and finally C into track one. So you have the orignal video playing until it reaches snapshot A, the original photo. Select it by clicking on it. Then you click 'keyframe' click on 'clip attributes" Select the 'opacity' Add a keyframe at the start of your change. Advance the photo clip to where you want the picture underneath to appear fully. Add a key frame and set the opacity to 0 zero on the bottom photo. So that when the video advances to that point the pencil sketch appears from underneath. From that point you do the same to the last colour frame so that it appears through pencil sketch photo. You are layering the photos one ontop of each other. Each layer becoming invisible as the time line advances revealing the photo underneath. Really the only limitation is your imagination

Good explanation Frankc1

Another way is (after using the Freeze Frame feature which inserts the snapshot) to apply one of the various Paint effects in PD - either the standard ones or those from NewBlue.



An alternative way of shifting the image from one style to the other is to apply a simple fade transition between them.

Cheers - Tony
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I'll try

Thank you , Frankc1 and ynotfish