Creative Effects Challenge No. 86 - Classic Oil Painting
Nov 4, 2018 0:48:34 GMT
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Post by tonyw on Nov 4, 2018 0:48:34 GMT
This will be my first Creative Effects Challenge and I did get a bit nostalgic and went back to one of the first Elements books I bought back in 2002 - Photoshop Elements 2 Most Wanted by Janee Aronoff, Francine Spiegel and Pete Walsh. I was just getting into trying to understand PSE2 at the time and this book helped a lot. I was also interested to see whether it still worked in the latest versions and it does. These days you can get many plug-ins that will automate such effects for you but it's sometimes fun to go back and do it the old fashioned way where you have to get a bit more creative - and this one is a good example.
So here goes:
1. Open up a photo. I'd suggest resizing to 1200 pixels or less at this stage as it will speed up some steps. As always duplicate the layer.
2. Select Filter>Pixelate>Crystallize and pick a cell size. What you pick is up to you but the bigger the cell size the less the detail..
3. Crystallize creates jagged corners - to get rid of these Filter>Noise>Median and pick a radius that gets rid of the jagged edges. I used 10 but it's your choice.
4. Now for the really creative step. Select Filter>Distort>Liquify and use the Warp Tool with an appropriate brush size to pull or push the pixels around to make it look a bit more like real brush strokes.
5. A couple more optional steps and I'd suggest duplicating the previous layer first so you can play around and change blend modes and opacity. One suggested filter is Filter>Texture>Grain>Speckle and play around with the settings as well as the blend mode and opacity (I used Soft Light and 65%)
6. One last step I used that wasn't in the original. Stamp Visible (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E), the most useful shortcut I know, to create a new layer with all the effects merged. Then I used the Blur Tool to blur around the edges and the Burn Tool to darken round the edges.
Here's my first attempt - before and after - I'm no painter so I wasn't too creative with the Liquify Step - see what you can do!
Have fun and any questions just ask. Looking forward to seeing your creations.
Tony
So here goes:
1. Open up a photo. I'd suggest resizing to 1200 pixels or less at this stage as it will speed up some steps. As always duplicate the layer.
2. Select Filter>Pixelate>Crystallize and pick a cell size. What you pick is up to you but the bigger the cell size the less the detail..
3. Crystallize creates jagged corners - to get rid of these Filter>Noise>Median and pick a radius that gets rid of the jagged edges. I used 10 but it's your choice.
4. Now for the really creative step. Select Filter>Distort>Liquify and use the Warp Tool with an appropriate brush size to pull or push the pixels around to make it look a bit more like real brush strokes.
5. A couple more optional steps and I'd suggest duplicating the previous layer first so you can play around and change blend modes and opacity. One suggested filter is Filter>Texture>Grain>Speckle and play around with the settings as well as the blend mode and opacity (I used Soft Light and 65%)
6. One last step I used that wasn't in the original. Stamp Visible (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E), the most useful shortcut I know, to create a new layer with all the effects merged. Then I used the Blur Tool to blur around the edges and the Burn Tool to darken round the edges.
Here's my first attempt - before and after - I'm no painter so I wasn't too creative with the Liquify Step - see what you can do!
Have fun and any questions just ask. Looking forward to seeing your creations.
Tony
