I found this picture on a site called mkfreephoto...

Reflections are hard to do, so show me how you can keep the reflection and make this pretty redhead happier...

Any program can be used!

A friend of mine emailed me as he is abit of an expert on turning photos into paintings, giving someone a few tips in an email is hardly going to fullfil my life is it, but this is what i was told.

Take the picture you want to turn into a painting and in photoshop add smart blur till it looks similiar to a painting, then take it to the artistic/dry brush, then take your picture into painter using Cloners/bristle oils cloner 15, then add texture.

This is what i got...

Very nice Legacy. I like the overall feel and tone to this painting.

Janet

The rendition is very nice, however the problem with using smartblur is that it does what it says on the tin, it blurs the images, so trying create detail from a blurred image is a challenge in itself, of course it that the effect you want to acheive, then great.

If you are wanting to prepare the image and enhance it prior to painting, then try using smartblur on a underlying layer first and then with the original on top of that layer using the eraser tool on a low opacity run it over the part of the image you want correcting. This will help to keep the detail but clean up the image.

In Painter, you can thn run over the image with the cloner brush, making sure it is again set to a low opacity, make sure the feature is also set to something like 1.5 - 1.9 so you can still see some bristles.

Hope this helps.

Here's my take. Nothing too obvious.

Here's my take. Nothing too obvious.

What is obvious ?
I Love Colors and skin texture.

Thank you for the photo Legacy. Lovely results from both of you... :nod:

Slightly Buzzed and then smudged. Added a slight canvas texture.

Gothic Glow action, some blending layers.

I like this and Gothic Glow effect. :bigthmb:

What is obvious ?
I Love Colors and skin texture.
Thanks Crex. I normally like to go hammer and tongs at any given photo. :) This is my idea of "subtle".

Axel thanks for your advice...

Jaykita your less obvious er i thought wow nice eyes! i use to wear contacts i had a pair of lilac ones they were errr less obvious not! Jaykita that is a really nice picture!

Neve love that picture looks like a slight colour pencil picture its very effective! but
Neve what is Buzzed? and also is the slight textured canvas up for sale?

Sidis love that gothic glow...she looks like we caught her sneaking off...

Gothic Glow action, some blending layers.

Welcome, sidis. I see you're a Glothic Glow action fan, too. (This action is available at www.AtnCentral.com).

I'm glad you joined us tonight and hope to see more of your creativity.

~Danny~

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Jaykita your less obvious er i thought wow nice eyes! i use to wear contacts i had a pair of lilac ones they were errr less obvious not! Jaykita that is a really nice picture!

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"LILAC"???? i thought i was painting blue ones! must check my monitor colors. Just kidding!
Thanks for the appreciation. Your image looks hand-painted. Great job :thumbsup:

Thanks...

Oh yeah your girlie has blue eyes, but they remind me of the bright color contacts...And yes Lilac lol!

Please, Sorry JPG quality.
:) I Love PhotoART.

Please, Sorry JPG quality.
:) I Love PhotoART.Quality looks fine to me. I love this. Could you explain a little about what you did?

Just added some speed and a smirk....

Very clever Crex, is that a little carefully placed "Constable Snow" I see??? It certainly works well. Had not heard of it until I enjoyed your tutorials. ;)

With all the work I did on this one, it was hard to mask and keep the reflections AND still have the work done on them.

It took a few layers, each with 33, 50, 66% layer masks over the hand/arm reflections, then a few more layers to work on..

Combinations of filters and hand (well, mouse) painted effects (I like doing a filter, then removing it and painting it back in at variable transparencies).

Finally I gave her a little smile and opened her eyes a bit.

Was it worth the effort?

I'd say it was definately worth the effort Fluffbutt :D

A very nice range of interpretations on this little girl.

I added a lens flare and a lighting effect to one layer to heighten the contrast in lighting and hopefully create a glowing (magical?) effect. I added a sketch layer in Hard Light mode topped by an Overlay mode where I added some light/shadows using black/white on my brush. Topped it with a dry brushed copy of the original in Overlay mode at reduced opacity.

Nice Pic I thought I'd have a go.

Peter

Don't know if the reflection that you wanted is still there, but here is one look.

Steve C.