Re: Creating a fine art "painterly" effect

[The Pretzel]

"crabshell" <crab...@nottoohotmale.com> wrote in message
news:GqydnVRab-_...@giganews.com...
> Hello all,
>
> I have a project whereby I need to turn a large photograph (ultimately 8
> meters long -- not a billboard but a high resolution image) into a Da Vinci
> Last Supper-like painting. With the 1 month timeframe I have it's unlikely
> I can go over every inch/mm of the image with a brush to achieve this
> effect. But a filter's effects are probably not random enough to be
> appealing. Ultimately this should look like a reasonable facsimile of fine
> art. Maybe distressed or aged a little too. This image will be printed on
> cement tile so it will look like a fresco with tile lines (no grout). Does
> anyone out there have any ideas of how this could be achieved? Which
> plugins, which brushes, methods, etc? I am a very proficient Photoshop
> user but I'm a little baffled. This has to look like I spent some serious
> effort on it. Any Painter pros can chime in too.
>
> Thanks for any advice!
>
> -crabshell

Try Painter.

Pick the type of brush and paint-style you want and use "cloning".

It doesn't need to be High-res either. 50 dpi 30, even 20 will do fine!!! 8
meters is pretty huge and nobody will look at it from 2 feet away.... I was at
the Getty art museum and came close to a large mural. Kid you not the thing was
no more then 12 dpi and it looked fine from about 5 feet away.