oil painting look on photos ?

[Mark Blackwell]

I have seen several pictures lately that were fantastic. These were
enlargements that had some type of process to make the picture look like an
oil painting. Anyone know what that process is or where I can get it done.
Thanks for the help Mark

[Peter Mikalajunas]

On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:41:13 -0000, "Mark Blackwell" <av8r...@mindspring.com>
wrote:

There are a number of alt processes that can have this effect. Most notably
Bromoils often look as though they were painted.

It can also be done through digital manipulation via photoshop.

Without seeing the image or talking to the artist, it is impossible to tell.

[Brad The Dog]

My favorite way to make photos look oil painted is to scan the original
print, transparency or negative and manipulate it in photoshop, painter or
my new favorite toy image composer (some of the plugins do in one step what
takes several in painter or photoshop). I have the file made into a 4x5
slide which costs me about $20 and then it is ready for printing.

Mark Blackwell wrote in message <7evvlv$1jq$1...@samsara0.mindspring.com>...

[zeitgeist]

for years photographers have been mounting prints on
canvass. It is actually hard to do *right* and is best left
to a pro with a vacuum press and a canvass stretching table,
I know, I have a $2,500 canvass mounting press rusting on my
deck. that, good lighting and a real soft focus lens like
the mamiya or the imagon can give very painterly like
effects.

Also, there is a method of printing on canvass or water
color paper with one of those hundred thousand dollar iris
printers where the colors just melt into the paper so nicely
and there just isn't any dots. That, often without any
filters to manipulate the image is enough to render an
interesting watercolor like effect. Then you can add filters
for brush strokes.

One method popular with expensive portrait photographers was
to use the canvass mounting, then "paint" with clear acrylic
paint, carefully following the detail of the image.
Sometimes various tints were included, to give the over coat
some depth and color opaqueness, and sometimes the whole
thing was kind of "toned" with a warm transparent cast to
antique it, often an over coat was applied with some
chemical to make it crack and reticulate and the whole
effect was called "old masters."

Most professional labs that service wedding and professional
photographers can handle the above.

[Bluebirdn]

If your looking for an inexpensive method of creating this effect, and
please no flack from the purists, it can be accomplished.

I use the HP 1120C it has the flat transport so you can feed maximum
size of 13X19 sheets of Canvas.

I buy the Gesso coated canvas at the art store and cut it to the
desired size I need, then I spray it with a matte coating to control
the bleed. I then print the image and give it about 12 hours to flash
usualy overnight, then I coat it with Kamar varnish and voila a very
acceptable image with the look and feel of a canvas painting.

Fine detail in a photograph does not always work, and small subject
fields do not always turn out well, but what you can do is keep some
small scraps of 140lb cold press water colour paper around and print
out a sample on it. If it turn out to your approval then go ahead and
print on the canvas, it will look pretty much simular.

I've done some nice images this way and it wont cost you an arm and a
leg either.

hopes this helps

Buk

[Nicholas O. Lindan]

Bluebirdn wrote:
>
> If your looking for an inexpensive method of creating this effect, and
> please no flack from the purists, it can be accomplished.
>

> [HP inkjet printer on gesso canvas .....]

This jives with what I was told about a photo-on-canvas that I saw: it
was done on an ink-jet.

There is someone doing this commercially, at least in the Cleveland,
Ohio area - and we are hardly the hotbed of invention!

Nick Lindan