Photo-to-Painting
Brooklyn NYC
1) Open a color photo. Go under the image menu, under Adjusments, and choose
Hue/Saturation. When the dialog box appears, increas the Saturation to 50
and click OK to make the color appear more vivid.
2) Go under the Filter menu and choose Filter Gallery. Now select GLASS from
the alphabetical menu. Set the Distortion to 3, Smoothness to 3, choose
Canvas from the Texture pop-up menu, and set the Scaling to 79%. DON'T CLICK
OK YET.
3) Click on the New Wffect Layer icon at the bottome of the dialog box. Now
select Paint Daubs from the alphabetical menu, set the Brush size to 4,
Sharpness to 1, and choose Simple for the Brush Type. DON'T CLICK OK YET
4) Click on the New Effect Layer icon at the bottom of the dialog box.
Select Angled Strokes from the alphabetical menu, set the Direction Balance
to 46, Stroke length to 3, and Sharpness to 1. DON'T Click OK YET!
5) Again, click on the New Effect Layer icon. To add a canvas-like texture,
select Texturizer from the alphabetical menu. For texture choose Canvas, set
the Scaling to 65%, Relief to 2, and choose Top Left for Light. Now, you can
click OK to apply all four filters to your photo.
6) For the final touches of the oil-painting effect, we'll use a techicque
that I learned from Jack Davis. Duplicate this layer by pressing MAC:
Command-J (PC: Control-J). Then press MAC: Shift-Command-U (PC:
Shift-Control-U) to Desaturate (remove all the color from) this layer. In
the Layers palette, change the layer Blending Mode of this layer from Normal
to Overlay.
7) Go under the Filter menu, under Stylize, and choose Emboss. When the
Emboss dialog box appears, set the Angle to 135, Height to 1, Amount to
500%, and click OK. Lastly, go to the Layers palette and lower the Opacity
of this layer to 40%. This will give you an oil-painted effect.
Again = this seems very long but it should only take you about 2 minutes.
It may not give you exactly what you were requesting but you may be able to
tweak these settings to get something very close. Besides, it great to be
able to do something with what you have instead of having to rely on
plug-ins all the time.
Good luck!
Chris
National Assocation of Photoshop Professionals
ACE Master Suite
Frans
"Brooklyn NYC" <broo...@newyorkcity.com> wrote...
> There is another way to acheive what you want == sort of a longer way:
>
> 1) Open a color photo. Go under the image menu, under Adjusments, and
choose
<>
> Again = this seems very long but it should only take you about 2
minutes.
> It may not give you exactly what you were requesting but you may be
able to
> tweak these settings to get something very close. Besides, it great to
be
> able to do something with what you have instead of having to rely on
> plug-ins all the time.
>
> Good luck!
> Chris
> National Assocation of Photoshop Professionals
> ACE Master Suite
Thank you Chris for your effort. Only problem this time: the picture is
of a very bad quality and in grey's. But, as I honour your way of
working, not to rely on filters, you can be sure I'll try what you
proposed.
Thank you
Best regards,
Frans
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> Ahh, well, didn't realize that. Hope you can find what you need
quickly!
Devided the photo in random parts
Used the Palette tool, in each part with different brush-width and angle
Fitted it all together
Used it as a 40% layer over the original foto.
No it's not a Van Gogh,
but if he would have seen it,
he should have painted with another technique :))
Regards
Frans