Simulate oil painting

Keith P

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Apr 3, 2003, 6:55:27 PM4/3/03

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I have seen a simulated oil painting effect supposedly done in photoshop. Can anyone point me to information on just how to go about getting this effect?
TIA
Keith

Dave Hamer

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Apr 3, 2003, 8:17:42 PM4/3/03

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Keith

If you do a google search for "Hayes Island Cafe", it gives you an
excellent tutorial on this type of conversion.

BLUDVLZ

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Apr 3, 2003, 9:15:03 PM4/3/03

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One way of doing it:

1) Make 3 duplicates of your image. Your layer palette should look like this:

Background copy 3
Background copy 2
Background copy
Background

2) On Background copy 3, apply Filter>Stylize>Find Edges. Desaturate the results and set the layer blend mode to Multiply.

3) On background copy 2, apply Filter>Artistic>Dry Brush. Set the layer blend mode to Lighten

4) On background copy, apply Filter>Artistic>Palette Knife. Set the layer blend mode to Overlay.

5) On the background layer, apply Filter>Artistic>Watercolor. (If the Watercolor effect is too pronounced, double-click the Backgound layer to turn it to a normal layer. Lighten the layer opacity to taste).

6) Select All (Ctrl + A) and then Edit>Copy Merged. Paste to a new layer.

7) On the new layer, apply Filter>Texture>Texturizer set to Canvas with the light source at a diagonal angle (lower left, upper right, etc.).

dave milbut

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Apr 3, 2003, 10:44:11 PM4/3/03

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saved to davespstips.txt! :)

dave milbut

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Apr 3, 2003, 10:43:03 PM4/3/03

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Interesting effect blu. very nice.

Danny Raphael

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Apr 4, 2003, 3:00:43 AM4/4/03

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<http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/painted3/painted3.htm>

<http://graphicssoft.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetphotoshop.com%2Frose7.html>

If this type of thing interests you, there are numerous tutorials here:
<http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3244>

~DannyR~

Gustavo Sanchez

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Apr 4, 2003, 3:44:43 AM4/4/03

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I'd take a peek to Fantastic Machines' Paint Engine <http://www.fantasticmachines.com/html/paint_engine.htm> freeware filter. It's quite nice for what you want.

Gustavo Sánchez

(Posted from Spain)

Christine Krof Shock

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Apr 4, 2003, 12:50:41 PM4/4/03

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One thing you can do to the Find edges layer is paint over the lines with an art brush set to screen to change the edges from black to a color that more closely matches the colors in your image.

Philo Calhoun

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Apr 4, 2003, 1:13:52 PM4/4/03

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There is also the deep paint plugin.

Christine Krof Shock

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Apr 4, 2003, 1:18:22 PM4/4/03

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And Painter 7 will give you really wonderful effects, especially with impasto--you get a paint texture effect that really begins to look like oils

And if you are a Wacom user you can get it for 149.00 full version from Wacom.com--graphire or intuos!!

gertie hansen

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Apr 4, 2003, 2:02:30 PM4/4/03

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On thread # 2 BLUDVLZ
you lost me on step 6, so are you still on the bg layer when you do copy merged? And then just make a new layer and paste to it?

BLUDVLZ

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Apr 4, 2003, 2:20:26 PM4/4/03

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Doesn't really matter what layer you're on, as long as it is a visible layer.

And then just make a new layer and paste to it?

Just paste. The new layer will be automatically created.

Ken aka photon

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Apr 4, 2003, 3:05:29 PM4/4/03

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Christine,
The release of Painter 8 is expected soon.

Keith P

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Apr 4, 2003, 4:45:49 PM4/4/03

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Thanks to all who helped out with this query. It is really appreciated and should keep me off the street for a bit ;-)

Best regatds...Keith