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05/11/2006 07:16:20 PM · #1 |
| Ok to all the gurus here, here's the question: How do you transform a photograph into a painting? Here's the twist, the Watercolor as well as the underpainting and the dry brush filter nor the tutorial on the Adobe website don't give good enough results for the purpose. The photograph MUST look like REAL painting in the entire image. I'd also prefer not have to buy an expansive 3rd party filter. I'm trying different setting and combination of filter for a week now and I'm next ot desperate. Thank you! |
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05/11/2006 07:20:14 PM · #2 |
I'm *no* expert in this area, but I think what you're going to wind up doing is applying more than one effect, and layering. Apply one effect per layer, and change the opacity and blending modes to get the final effect you want.
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05/11/2006 09:18:41 PM · #3 |
| BUMP! please help anyone! |
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05/11/2006 09:22:55 PM · #4 |
My question is more artistic.... and I've been using PS for over 10 years.....
Why, if I have taken a lovely photograhp, would I then wish to digitally manipulate it until it looked like something it wasn't. It was a lovely photograph! It took years of technical training and practice and a moment of perfect light and perfect expression to capture...... why would I wish to change that into something else?
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05/11/2006 09:25:57 PM · #5 |
| Do you have a decoupage filter? With adjustments this can do a fairly good job especially if you use other layers for fine tuning. |
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05/11/2006 09:29:08 PM · #6 |
this effect works on images with high contrast, and the results vary from a sketch to a painting.
take the picture, and make two new layers of it, so there are three identical ones in your layers palette. invert the colors of the middle layer (ctrl-i). Next, select the top layer, and use the pull-down menu in the layers pallette to select color dodge. then, with the top layer still selected, go to filter > blur > gaussian blur, and set it to the desired effect. click ok. if it doesn't look good like this, try desaturating the top layer, the middle layer, or both. play with it. some things look great in some pictures, awful in others. some pictures just don't work with this. Hope this helps.
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05/11/2006 09:40:23 PM · #7 |
Try Paint Daubs and then take the final printed image and add your strokes of paint.
It's been done countless times.
Good Luck! |
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05/11/2006 09:45:19 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by idnic:
My question is more artistic.... and I've been using PS for over 10 years.....
Why, if I have taken a lovely photograhp, would I then wish to digitally manipulate it until it looked like something it wasn't. It was a lovely photograph! It took years of technical training and practice and a moment of perfect light and perfect expression to capture...... why would I wish to change that into something else? |
This might be a first, me answering a wholly artistic question. Well, at least with an example.
A long time ago, I had a little Nikon 995, and with a WA adapter, it did shoot W-I-D-E. One day in the Spring of 2002, I was sitting in a restaurant in Kennebunkport, ME having lunch with a friend, and we were farting around with the camera. I set it on the table, and fired a shot taking in much of the (very empty) restaurant. It was a "LOMO Moment" indeed.
Later, when I was looking at that image, I saw the potential in it. Not as a "straight" photo, but as a painting. It cried out for the treatment, demanded it. It was, in fact, a fairly mundane photo, but, IMO, works much better in it's "watercolor" rendition.
This image pleases me as much today as it did then, and in fact I plan on printing and framing it to hang in our new kitchen, which should be finished by, well, August hopefully.
The moral of the story is that in some photos, there is a painting, crying out to be free.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread. |
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05/11/2006 09:54:56 PM · #9 |
I kinda see your point, Kirbic. But from a different point of view. Back in my art school days, I would use my camera to record the moment, light, composition I wanted... then would turn to easle, canvas, paints and brushes to recreate the vision I saw. I've never "faked" it from the photography side, but I do see your point about how some scenes just "feel" like a painting...
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05/11/2006 10:39:46 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by idnic:
I kinda see your point, Kirbic. But from a different point of view. Back in my art school days, I would use my camera to record the moment, light, composition I wanted... then would turn to easle, canvas, paints and brushes to recreate the vision I saw. I've never "faked" it from the photography side, but I do see your point about how some scenes just "feel" like a painting... |
Fakin' it's the only route I have, 'cause I am no painter! Unless it involves a roller :-P |
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05/11/2006 10:51:49 PM · #11 |
I would try some actions from here: atncentral
The have a lot of cool ones - some are painting effects. Gotta know how to use actions though... |
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05/11/2006 10:51:56 PM · #12 |
Used to be when you bought an inexpensive Wacom tablet, they used to include a copy of a program called Painter, which supposedly had pretty good filters for imitating various kinds of painting/drawing techniques.
I don't think I ran any brushstroke filters, but I gave this photo a Canvas texture for a subtle painted effect.
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05/12/2006 11:00:57 AM · #13 |
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05/12/2006 11:08:47 AM · #14 |
| For a very painterly looking print Painter is the way to go---you can even download a free trial---then....if you want to really do it up, print on canvas! |
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05/12/2006 12:44:32 PM · #15 |
It's VERY easy with Paint Shop Pro 9 or above. You can paint the strokes yourself, the program takes the colours from beneath. You have a variety of settings. Perfection takes more time than a sketch, but it's woth it.
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