Aug 4, 2017 - The Oil Paint filter lets you transform a photo into an image with the visual appearance of a classic oil painting. With a few simple sliders, you.
The effect we’ll be producing in this tutorial mimics the aesthetics of a hand painted picture using watercolour paints. A range of Photoshop filters will produce the foundations of the effect, then the addition of a paper texture and deformation with watercolour Photoshop brushes add an extra level of realism to produce a convincing effect. Open your chosen image in Adobe Photoshop. I’m using this photograph of the from.
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Right click on the background image layer and select Convert to Smart Object. Head to the Filter menu and select Filter Gallery. Navigate to the Artistic category and select Dry Brush, then change the settings to 10 Brush Size, 10 Brush Detail and 1 Texture. Click OK to apply the effect.
Select the Filter Gallery menu option again, making sure not to choose the option at the top, which would reapply the same effect. This time select the Cutout filter and configure the settings to 5 Number of Levels, 4 Edge Simplicity and 1 Edge Fidelity. In the Layers panel, double click the tiny settings icon next to the top Filter Gallery entry. Change the blending mode to Pin Light. Click the Filter menu again, this time go to Blur Smart Blur. Enter the settings of 5 Radius, 100 Threshold and change the Quality to High.
Double click the settings icon and change the blending mode of the Smart Blur effect to Screen and reduce the opacity to 50%. Head to Filter Stylize Find Edges. Edit the Blending Options and change the blending mode to Multiply to render this layer’s background transparent, this will leave just the details of the find edges effect to represent pencil sketch lines. Find a free paper texture, such as this. Copy and Paste the texture into the Photoshop document and scale it to size to fit over the canvas. Change the blending mode to Multiply.
Download and install this free set of. Add a Layer Mask to the Background layer, then use the ALT+Backspace shortcut to fill the mask with black, which will effectively erase the entire photograph.
Select the Brush tool and choose one of the watercolour brushes. Switch the foreground colour to white in the toolbar, then use the square bracket keys to adjust the size of the brush. Click around the canvas to restore the photograph with watercolour style bleeding around the edges. After a few clicks, change the brush to an alternative watercolour option and continue restoring the image with a range of watercolour tones to avoid repetition.
Since all the effects have been set up as part of a Smart Object, then watercolour painting effect can be applied to an alternative photograph by editing the contents of the Smart Object layer. Double click the Smart Object layer’s thumbnail to open the.PSB file. Paste in a different image then save and close the file. Return to the main document to find all the effects have been instantly applied to the new picture. Haven’t tried the tutorial but the effect looks great! I too have been looking for a good painting tutorial, as I’m not keen on the “Painting Actions” that are available. Really appreciate the tutorial Chris, as you always put out great content!
@Robert, not all of as are able to paint on canvas and create works of art that our clients would appreciate. Artwork is in the eyes of the beholder, digital or otherwise! If you’re against using Photoshop to create artwork, this is probably not the best site to be venting your objections! Good luck and all the best with your painting! You did not answer the question. Where has the natural creativity and execution of traditional art gone?? Many graphic designers today want it “quick and easy for speed” often sacrificing the expression and emotion of a true hand-crafted piece.
So, to hell with a pad of watercolor and some paper.right? To hell with natural dexterity and a studying eye? I hate PHOTOSHOP filters because they truly dumb down those with natural talent and a penchant for getting paint on their fingers.
Client in a hurry? Ask themif they want quick or quality?
. Applying filters 341. Creating and editing Smart Filters 344.
Hiding, copying, and deleting Smart Filters 345. Working with the Smart Filter mask 346. More filter techniques 349. Turning a photo into a painting or a drawing 352 You may have already used a filter or two in Photoshop (perhaps as a step in an earlier chapter).
In this chapter, filters are the star players. Depending on which filters you apply and which settings you choose, the results can range from a subtle change to a total morph.– You can make an image look (almost) as if it’s hand painted, silk-screened, or sketched; apply distortion; add a pattern, texture, or noise; create a mosaic or a patchwork of tiles—the creative possibilities are infinite. Once you start using the Filter Gallery, you’ll see. Time will fly. B We applied the Charcoal filter. Using this chapter, you will learn techniques for applying filters, including using the Filter Gallery and Smart Filters, and use filters to make a photo look like an oil painting or tinted drawing.
(To locate tasks in which we use individual filters, see “Filter menu” in the index.) Applying filters You can apply filters to a whole layer or just to a selection on a layer. Most of the Photoshop filters are applied either via the Filter Gallery or via an individual dialog.
A small handful of them, such as Clouds and Blur, are applied in one step simply by choosing the filter name from a submenu on the Filter menu. If you apply a filter to a Smart Object, it becomes an editable, removable Smart Filter (see pages 344–345). If you try to select a filter and discover that it’s not available, the likely cause is that it’s incompatible with the current document color mode or bit depth. All the Photoshop filters are available for RGB files, most of the filters are available for Grayscale files, fewer are available for CMYK Color, Lab Color, and 16-bits-per-channel files, still fewer are available for 32-bits-per-channel files, and none are available for Bitmap and Indexed Color files.
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Most of the Photoshop filters are housed conveniently under one roof in the Filter Gallery dialog. There you can preview dozens of filters and filter settings, show and hide each filter effect that you’ve already previewed, and change the sequence in which Photoshop applies them to your document. To use the Filter Gallery. Click an image layer; or for more flexibility, click a duplicate image layer or a Smart Object (see “To apply a Smart Filter” on page 344). Optional: To limit the filter to a specific area of the image, create a selection.
The Foreground and/or Background colors are used by many filters (see the sidebar on this page), and you must choose those colors now, before opening the Filter Gallery. Choose Filter Filter Gallery. The resizable gallery opens (, next page).
To change the zoom level for the preview, click the Zoom Out button or Zoom In button in the lower-left corner of the dialog, or choose a preset zoom level from the menu. (If the preview is magnified, you can drag it in the window.). Do either of the following: In the middle pane of the dialog, click an arrowhead to expand any of the six filter categories, then click a filter thumbnail. Choose a filter name from the menu below the Cancel button.
On the right side of the dialog, choose settings for the filter. To edit the list of effects (bottom right portion of the dialog), do any of these optional steps: To apply an additional filter effect, click the New Effect Layer button, click a filter thumbnail in any category, then choose settings. The effect may take a moment or two to process. To replace one filter effect with another, click a filter effect name on the scroll list (don’t click the New Effect Layer button), then choose a replacement filter and settings. To hide a filter effect, click the visibility icon next to the effect name (click again to redisplay). To change the stacking position of a filter effect to produce a different result in the image, drag the effect name upward or downward on the list.
To remove a filter effect from the list, click it, then click the Delete Effect Layer button. To hide or show the previews in the Filter Gallery for all but one filter effect, Alt-click/Option-click the visibility icon for that effect. To remove a non-Smart Filter, click a prior document state or snapshot on the History panel.
In Edit/Photoshop Preferences Plug-Ins, uncheck Show All Filter Gallery Groups and Names to list, on the submenus on the Filter menu, only filters that are not in the Filter Gallery, or check this option to list all Photoshop filters on the submenus, including those that are available in the Filter Gallery (the gallery opens when you choose a filter name). Using the Preview in an Individual Filter Dialog Some Photoshop filters are applied via an individual dialog (not via the Filter Gallery). Of those individual dialogs, some have a preview window and some do not. For individual filter dialogs that contain a preview window, you can click the + button to zoom in or the – button to zoom out (we usually do the latter). Most of the individual dialogs also have a Preview check box. In some filter dialogs (such as Blur Gaussian Blur and Motion Blur), if you click in the document window (square pointer), that area of the image will appear in the preview window.
You can drag the image inside the preview window. To compare the image with and without the current filter effect, click and hold on the preview, then release.