Mimic Oil Painting Brush Strokes?

Terry

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Apr 3, 2002, 2:26:46 PM4/3/02

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Hi,

I am trying to convert a photo into an oil painting-like picture.
I wonder if there are any tricks that can generate the kinda
brush strokes seen in an oil painting.

Thanks in advance,

Terry

Steph

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Apr 3, 2002, 6:41:38 PM4/3/02

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"Terry" <javas...@REMOVE-ME.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Have you tried the standard filters under "Artistic" and "Brush strokes"?

Ralph

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Apr 4, 2002, 9:24:51 AM4/4/02

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Try one of the following:

1) The Artistic Effects included with Photoshop.
2) Virtual Painter - a plugin by JASC for Paint Shop Pro (may work
with other programs... not sure.)
3) LucisArt - (lucisart.com)
4) Microsoft's Impressionist Plugin that was part of their Image
Composer program which was packaged with Front Page 97/98
5) Paint Alchemy - part of Xaos Tools (xaostools.com)
6) BuZZ - a plugin by Segmentis (segmentis.com)
7) Paint Engine from Fastastic Machines (fantasticmachines.com)

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myJanee

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Apr 4, 2002, 11:09:48 PM4/4/02

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In article <MPG.1715136ca...@news.tc.umn.edu>, javashop58
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Hiya Terry!
I put together a tutorial that uses Liquify to simulate oil painted
brush strokes. I've had some moderate success with this, and, though the
examples in my tutorial largely suck (i've not ever painted), I'll bet
that some good results could be had with this method.
http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/painted3/painted3.htm
Always me, Janee

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Henri Lambert

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Apr 7, 2002, 9:20:50 AM4/7/02

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Hello Terry,

You can do it with a lot of filters or combination of filters (see Ralph's
answer).

But you can also use the Impressionist variation of the History Brush.
This option drags and smears the pixels of the source as you paint.
The results can be very gratifying.

Good luck

Henri
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Fugitive

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Apr 8, 2002, 3:00:54 PM4/8/02

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If you can afford $400 there is always Painter, which can do anything
for a painting look, including doing paintings from scratch with
realistic brushes, and paints.

Greg

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Fitz

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Apr 8, 2002, 5:08:18 PM4/8/02

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On Mon, 08 Apr 2002 19:00:54 GMT, Fugitive
<gregfar...@earthlink.net> wrote:

>On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 13:26:46 -0600, Terry
><javas...@REMOVE-ME.yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am trying to convert a photo into an oil painting-like picture.
>>I wonder if there are any tricks that can generate the kinda
>>brush strokes seen in an oil painting.
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Terry
>
>
>If you can afford $400 there is always Painter, which can do anything
>for a painting look, including doing paintings from scratch with
>realistic brushes, and paints.

If you don't have Painter, you can simulate impasto brushstrokes like
this:

Paint directly over the top of the existing image:
* in a new layer, set to 50% opacity so that you can see
what's underneath
* in black and white
* use the special effects brushes (such as the sponge
patterns)

Make your strokes along the planes of the underlying image, as if you
were actually painting on the colours in paint. Often having "Wet
Edges" checked in the Brush Properties bar will help. Modify the
strokes with the Smear tool. A good graphics tablet will really help
here.

What you're doing with this is creating a greyscale layer which can
then be copied to an alpha channel, and used with the Lighting Effects
filter. Once you've copied the layer to this alpha channel, you can
hide it (or discard it).

Create a new layer, fill it with 50% grey, set its blending mode to
Hard Light, and run the lighting effects filter using the alpha
channel you copied from your black-and-white layer.

This method works, but it does involve a LOT of work, so don't expect
it to be an easy fix. Essentially, this is pretty much what Painter
does to replicate impasto brush work, except that Painter does it
semi-automagically.

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