Converting an image to an Oil / Watercolour picture
John Prescott
image into an image that rersembles a water colour or an oil painting?
Regards, John Prescott
Tony Blair
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> Using Photoshop 7, is there a method or tool of converting a photographic
> image into an image that rersembles a water colour or an oil painting?
>
> Regards, John Prescott
>
There are numerous plug-ins (some of them free) that will do this sort of
task in a fashion - although far from free is I think the best one Buzz
pro! - There are also actions etc available on Adobe Exchange which can do
all sorts of good things!
Regards, Tony Blair
John Prescott
Exchange actions but they seem a bit poor. No doubt they can be giggled a
little. Buzz and it's gigger brothers look good in the adverts so I might
download a trial. As you say not cheap.
John
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Bill Hilton
> Using Photoshop 7, is there a method or tool of converting a photographic
> image into an image that rersembles a water colour or an oil painting?
If you google on "painting photoshop" you'll see many links for this,
most are actions using various filters. To my eye none of these look
very convincing.
You can also use Photoshop brush tools with the Art History brush to
mimic some painting styles ... I think it looks a lot better with a
tablet than with the mouse though, the brushstrokes don't look
convincing with a mouse. I've seen some images using this technique
that looked OK.
I've tried a couple of stand-alone programs to do this, like Xaos Paint
Alchemy and Deep Paint and sometimes (some images) they look OK, some
times they look too "machine-generated". I wasn't overly impressed
with these either.
If you REALLY want to do this at a high level I think you need a
program like Corel Painter (latest version) and a Wacom tablet and a
book on painting with Painter like say "Painter Creativity" by Jeremy
Sutton. But now you're talking a few hundred bucks ... in most ways
Photoshop and Adobe are far superior to the Corel graphics products,
but Painter (which has some warts, like weak color management) does a
much better job with the brushes and the ability to mimic different
paint mediums, I feel.
Bill
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