Creative Effects Challenge No. 144 - Oil Painting Effect
Mar 6, 2021 20:50:50 GMT
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Post by tonyw on Mar 6, 2021 20:50:50 GMT
This effect goes back to around 2003 and it has appeared in various places - I first saw it in Scott Kelby's Down & Dirty Tricks for PSE3 . It uses the filter gallery so works in all versions of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements and stacks effects which is a less obvious feature of the filter gallery that allows you to tweak the effects after they've been applied.
The filter gallery only works with 8 bit images so if you are starting with a 16 bit image (eg a raw file from Camera Raw) you may need to convert to 8 bit. Effects also depend on the pixel dimensions of the image - I resized my image to around 2500 pixels on the long side before starting.
Before you start you might want to bump up the saturation with a hue/saturation adjustment - try 50% saturation boost.
Start with Filter Gallery>Distort>Glass - I used Distortion 3, Smoothness 3, Texture Canvas, Scaling 80% but try other settings (best to set the preview at 100% to see the result)
Don't click OK but find the New Effect Layer icon at the bottom and click that (see image below) - that adds a new Effect Layer select Artistic>Paint Daubs - I used Brush Size 4, Sharpness 1 and Simple as the Brush Type.
Don't click OK but add a New Effect Layer and select Brush Strokes>Angled Strokes - I used Direction Balance 50, Stroke Length 3, Sharpness 1
Don't click OK but add a New Effect Layer and select Texture>Texturizer and choose Canvas. I used Scaling 60, Relief 2, Top Left for Light.
At this stage (see image below) you could go back and edit any of the effects you've applied but if you're happy click OK
Duplicate the layer and then Enhance Color>Remove Color or you can use Convert to Black and White - set the blend mode to Overlay and under the Filter menu choose Stylize>Emboss. Set the angle to 135, Height to 1 and amount to 400%. Adjust the layer opacity for the desired affect (I used around 60%)
The original method is still available as an action if you want to give it a try. I haven't explored it in detail but did confirm that it works in PSE13 and PS CC so probably works in all versions - you can find it at Bill's Oil Painting Action
If you have another program that can create an oil painting effect feel free to use it so we see how they compare and, as always feel free to add any other effects that appeal to you.
Here what I finished up with in this case.
Have fun
Tony
The filter gallery only works with 8 bit images so if you are starting with a 16 bit image (eg a raw file from Camera Raw) you may need to convert to 8 bit. Effects also depend on the pixel dimensions of the image - I resized my image to around 2500 pixels on the long side before starting.
Before you start you might want to bump up the saturation with a hue/saturation adjustment - try 50% saturation boost.
Start with Filter Gallery>Distort>Glass - I used Distortion 3, Smoothness 3, Texture Canvas, Scaling 80% but try other settings (best to set the preview at 100% to see the result)
Don't click OK but find the New Effect Layer icon at the bottom and click that (see image below) - that adds a new Effect Layer select Artistic>Paint Daubs - I used Brush Size 4, Sharpness 1 and Simple as the Brush Type.
Don't click OK but add a New Effect Layer and select Brush Strokes>Angled Strokes - I used Direction Balance 50, Stroke Length 3, Sharpness 1
Don't click OK but add a New Effect Layer and select Texture>Texturizer and choose Canvas. I used Scaling 60, Relief 2, Top Left for Light.
At this stage (see image below) you could go back and edit any of the effects you've applied but if you're happy click OK
Duplicate the layer and then Enhance Color>Remove Color or you can use Convert to Black and White - set the blend mode to Overlay and under the Filter menu choose Stylize>Emboss. Set the angle to 135, Height to 1 and amount to 400%. Adjust the layer opacity for the desired affect (I used around 60%)
The original method is still available as an action if you want to give it a try. I haven't explored it in detail but did confirm that it works in PSE13 and PS CC so probably works in all versions - you can find it at Bill's Oil Painting Action
If you have another program that can create an oil painting effect feel free to use it so we see how they compare and, as always feel free to add any other effects that appeal to you.
Here what I finished up with in this case.
Have fun
Tony
