transforming a picture to an oil painting
Eli Aran
I am desperately looking for a tutorial on how to make a scanned picture
look like a painted work.
with the "Simplifier" filter I only managed to make a picture look like a
"flat" water color sketch
but what I am trying to do is create a birthday gift for my wife using her
picture.
I plan to scan it with very high resolution and enlarge the outcome to a
poster size picture and frame it.
I want to transform her picture to look like a oil painting so I need it to
have relatively thick masses of paint
and I need it to be three dimensional so I want the areas of color to be
bright on one side and dark for shadows on the other.
I am willing to work with layers and masks though I am not too familiar with
using them.
I would highly appreciate if you could please send me a tutorial on this
subject or point me toward a relevant location.
my wife's birthday is December 13. I am not looking for a one-click magical
transformation.
I really want the picture to look like it was thoroughly worked-on and I
want it to really look like a Van Gogh (or any other modern oil painter)
style.
thank you very much for your kind help!
Eli
Hunt
Eli,
While PS has several "painterly" Filters, that will yield similar results to
what you are looking for, Corel's Painter is the perfect application for
conversion to a "painting." There is even an Auto-clone feature in Painter,
that will mimick the Van Gogh technique.
You might want to do a Google search for Photoshop and Van Gogh, as I seem to
recall a Plug-in for PS for this effect, but don't have the URL handy. I'm not
sure of how effective it is, but CAN attest to the excellent results in
Painter.
Hunt
T. H. Larsen
Eli Aran <eli_y...@hotmail.com> typed:
You can start out here:
http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?sid=161032&page=1
The effects are more like watercolor than oil on canvas, but you ought to
try it, and get a hang at both turtorials and Photoshop.
Next step would be to find turtorials that tell about textures, you'll need
a canvas textured layer in the picture. Try here:
http://www.sketchpad.net/photoshp.htm
Or here:
http://www.wetzelandcompany.com/MonthlyTipA.html
If you search the web for _photoshop turtorial_ you'll find lots and lots of
turtorials for different uses. You can limit the search by adding a third
word/category, for instance layers, blending mode, filters etc.
--
- Trude
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one
half as bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
(Equal Rites)
John H
The program you need is Corel Painter IX - just released, and you can
find details at
http://www.corel.com/painterix/home/index.html
You simply open your photo in the program, select Quick Clone from the
File menu and start painting with brushes you can chose from a huge
array of oil and other brushes (and you can create you own to control
the bristles and thickness of the oil). You can select the texture of
the surface of the painting, and apply lighting to it,, etc etc etc.
The program can do far more than that of course, and even has KPT
plugins some of which are very useful,
You can download the program for a 30 day free trial that is fully
functional and allows you to save your work. The trial program comes
with heaps of built in tutorials and access to many others on line.
The downside is that it's a big file to download if you don't have a
cable or DSL connection. But you can set your computer to the task
when you plan to do other things for a while.
John
O Ransen
<eli_y...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I am desperately looking for a tutorial on how to make a scanned picture
>look like a painted work.
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