Photo to Painting Tutor

[koolbluez]

Wanna make a painting of a REAL picture using Photoshop..

Supposing this is the pic.


LAYER VIA COPY (Ctrl+J), name new layer POSTEREDGE

Lets FILTER->ARTISTIC->POSTER EDGES->EDGE THICKNESS, INTENSITY, POSTER EDGES be 10,1,6 respectively.


Highlight original layer and LAYER VIA COPY (Ctrl+J) it again, name this layer CUTOUT

Lets FILTER->ARTISTIC->CUTOUT->No. of LEVELS, EDGE SIMPLICITY, EDGE FIDELITY be 8, 3, 1 respectively.


Now placing POSTEREDGE layer topmost, followed by CUTOUT layer, make POSTEREDGE layer BLEND MODE=DARKEN/LIGHTEN with no change to CUTOUT layer.

We get my final painting (with POSTEREDGE layer BLEND MODE=DARKEN)

We can do a HIGH QUALITY SMART BLUR after MERGING LAYERS for better effect as shown below

An Estella Warren painting got by making POSTEREDGE layer BLEND MODE= LIGHTEN and a HIGH QUALITY SMART BLUR

NOTE:

# Another very good & easy method to convert a picture to a painting is to simply make a layer copy, FIND EDGES filter it, MULTIPLY this layer upon the original layer and HIGH QUALITY SMART BLUR the MERGED LAYERS.

# A HIGH QUALITY SMART BLUR is used everywhere to give a painted feel to the pics. It is the real magic behind these methods, especially the FIND EDGES filter method.

Here's a Beyonce Painting sample of the FIND EDGES method.

WARNING:
There r many methods to do this... most of them by the ARTISTIC FILTERS in Photoshop... but i got my most realistic paintin with this methods.

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Lol...nice Tut

[n2casey]

Nice tute friend. Thx for it.
One suggestion for u - Try to post thumbnails (with link) only instead of complete pic, so that dial-up users can also visit ur post.

[koolbluez]

I'ld also suggest a highlighting of edges to make it comic art... tutorial l8r... sample now

A 202kb gif...

[krates]

great !!!

[koolbluez]

And.. for the pencil sketch sorta effect... read this.

[R2K]

brilliant tutorial...