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Convert a Photo into an Oil Painting
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Blac...@adobeforums.com
Nov 7, 2005, 12:52:59 PM11/7/05
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I have done some searches on google and have founds tons of tutorials on how to convert a photo into an oil painting. However, the final product usually doesn’t look anything like an oil painting.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Phosphor
Nov 7, 2005, 1:20:58 PM11/7/05
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A quick forum search brings up thie following. Wow! Look at that! I answered this one too!
:)
Don_Mc...@adobeforums.com
Nov 7, 2005, 1:28:25 PM11/7/05
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Note to Black
It is possible that you will not be able to convert a photo to look suffiently like an oil painting to meet your tastes. PS can only do what can be programmed, and at this point, magic is still a version or two away.
Don
Rob_K...@adobeforums.com
Nov 7, 2005, 1:52:48 PM11/7/05
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Willem Wilmink painted photo-realistic views. But he was an artist, not a plugin.
Rob
Joe_Jo...@adobeforums.com
Nov 7, 2005, 1:55:35 PM11/7/05
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I do this on a regular basis, and have found Corel Painter - via advice from Phosphor - is just the ticket. It's really the only capable solution out there, I think.
There are a couple of PS plugins, but they're pretty sad, IMHO.
Philo_...@adobeforums.com
Nov 7, 2005, 3:05:50 PM11/7/05
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There is another solution besides Painter IX: it is the "Deep Paint" plugin from Right Hemisphere. I use Painter myself, but Deep Paint got pretty good reviews a few years back.
dc...@adobeforums.com
Nov 7, 2005, 7:32:32 PM11/7/05
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Deep Paint is not being supported any more by Right Hemisphere but you can now download it for free.
I do a lot of photo->natural media manipulations and all my oil simulations use Painter - some more successful than others. Painter, not Photoshop, is the right tool for this job. You need to see realistic interplay with a canvas texture and evidence of convincing brushstrokes. PS can do canvas texture and make brushstrokes but they aren't near a convincing imitation of the real thing.
David
I do a lot of photo->natural media manipulations and all my oil simulations use Painter - some more successful than others. Painter, not Photoshop, is the right tool for this job. You need to see realistic interplay with a canvas texture and evidence of convincing brushstrokes. PS can do canvas texture and make brushstrokes but they aren't near a convincing imitation of the real thing.
David
Mathias_...@adobeforums.com
Nov 7, 2005, 7:44:58 PM11/7/05
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Check out what Mike Finn has to offer, too.
<http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~mikefinn/action.html>
Mathias
Philo_...@adobeforums.com
Nov 8, 2005, 11:35:48 AM11/8/05
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I think Deep Paint still supports PS, but it is called Deep Paint 3D. See Right Hemisphere's web site. However, it is marketed primarily as a 3D texturing application.
Jeff_...@adobeforums.com
Nov 8, 2005, 4:50:27 PM11/8/05
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Virtual Painter 4 by JASC does a good job if you select and feather sections of the image. If you don't do selections and just let it alter the entire image at once the edges are unattractively blurred. It's cheap too. I use the watercolor more frequently.
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