Photo to Painting or Drawing?
Terry
Can anyone share some tricks and tips on how to turn a
photograph into a painting or drawing using Photoshop?
I know this can be done and saw some work that look
like impressionistic painting. How do you mimick the
strokes in an oil painting using photoshop?
Thanks in advance,
Terry
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Jeff Cook
> strokes in an oil painting using photoshop?
In the Filter menu.
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Leon
try this plugin : Paint Engine, get it here.
http://www.fantasticmachines.com/demo_downloads.htm
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Robin McDonald
That Paint Engine Plugin Leon recommended was pretty neat. Can't believe its
free.
I have been doing this for years in Photoshop 5 and it works all the better
in Photoshop 6 if you want to emulate some impasto (thick paint) effects.
Just for the heck of it apply Photoshop's canvas texture to the background
layer. Then create a new layer. In Photoshop 5 start up layer effects and
choose inner bevel and also turn on a light drop shadow effect. In
Photoshop 6 double click on your new layer and set up inner bevel but also
play with the contour setting in that menu and make a really zig zaggy
contour to emulate brush hairs. Turn on drop shadow and apply a light drop
shadow effect. You will get something that looks pretty much like many of
the paints you get in Deep Paint or Painter. Its no substitute for a paint
program but its a good way to get some interactive textured paint to play
with. Also very cool is download the KPT Effects demo and try KPT Pyramid
paint. It does a kind of neat ala prima effect, some might say it looks
like watercolor but it is much nicer than Photoshop's watercolor filter. I
just tried it last night for the first time and it was exactly what I needed
to convert a photo into something artsy. Check out the image in the middle
of my page. Fred and Rita were made with a bad blue photo and Pyramid Paint
with clever retouching it looks pretty good.
http://home.earthlink.net/~atomiccow/index.html
There are enough demo paint programs out there you can paint for months
with just demos. First of all you have that Paint Engine thing which is
totally free. Then you can download Deep Paint 2D for a month. when you are
done that you can download Deep Paint 3d and use that for a month because
that is just like the 2d version but it happens to also paint 3d objects.
Then next month download Procreate Painter 7. Then try Cinema 4d body
paint. Anyway the point is these are all great demos . Some put
watermarks all over the image but if you are clever with the clone tool its
not against the law to paint over them. It's just inconvenient. I think
there is another painterly filter out there to try called Buzz Pro. You can
also get the very expensive and great Painter 5 by buying a back issue of
Computer Arts magazine for twenty dollars and they give it free on the
accompanying disk. There are more still and by the time you have used up all
the existing demos on the market they next generation of the same programs
will probably be available to cycle through again. But during the lag time
you can use the freebies and techniques suggested here.
Robin
Stephan
filters turning photos into paintings
To me it is the same idea than turning old bottles into lamps, seashells
into some pretty butterfly sculpture or car tires into planters
It is just my opinion of course and nobody cares but I had to
Stephan
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anon
> That Paint Engine Plugin Leon recommended was pretty neat. Can't believe its
> free.
<snp>
Agreed! That is a pretty neat-o plugin for a 'freebie'. Thanks Leon.
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anon
> Just because I feel like making a new friend let me tell you how i see
> filters turning photos into paintings
> To me it is the same idea than turning old bottles into lamps, seashells
> into some pretty butterfly sculpture or car tires into planters
> It is just my opinion of course and nobody cares but I had to
*blink*
Soooo, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Are you for it or against it?
I thought the filter was kind of neat... Not as kewl as Painter, but good
in a pinch. (and easier to figure out).
Stephan
and my garden is so pretty with all these flowers growing
out of red and white tires
I hired Idiot Mike as my interior designer/ landscape artist, glad I did
Stephahn
Robin McDonald
Stephan some time you are just too much.
If this was Bikini Bottom you would be Squidward.
If this was the Hundred Acre Wood you would be Eyore.
If this was 30 Rockefeller Center you would be Triumph the Dog. You just
crave that someone
will point out anything wonderful...for you to poop on.
Robin
hilite
<beedoo...@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>Just because I feel like making a new friend let me tell you how i see
>filters turning photos into paintings
>To me it is the same idea than turning old bottles into lamps, seashells
>into some pretty butterfly sculpture or car tires into planters
>It is just my opinion of course and nobody cares but I had to
>
I don't think it's good or bad. But it is funny. And not art.
Leon
"hilite" <no...@none.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:01:55 GMT, "Stephan"
> <beedoo...@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>
> >Just because I feel like making a new friend let me tell you how i see
> >filters turning photos into paintings
> >To me it is the same idea than turning old bottles into lamps, seashells
> >into some pretty butterfly sculpture or car tires into planters
> >It is just my opinion of course and nobody cares but I had to
> >
> I don't think it's good or bad. But it is funny. And not art.
>
> >Stephan
> >
> >
Art is in the eye of the beholder.
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