Oil Painting Effect

[skipatk]

I've been working on an effect to simulate an oil painting. Attached are 100% crops of the original picture and final oil effect. There is a little loss of detail on the oil effect due to the compression for posting here. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by skipatk

I've been working on an effect to simulate an oil painting. Attached are 100% crops of the original picture and final oil effect. There is a little loss of detail on the oil effect due to the compression for posting here. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks

Looks pretty darn good!

Is this a technique you wish to keep quiet about, or do you plan to let us know what you did?

Also the loss of detail, to me, just adds to the painterly effect.

Steve C.

[palms]

looks good to me as well, had a thought though and will be back later with it if it works

Palms

[skipatk]

Glad to share Steve. However, this is my first attempt at a tutorial. I saved it as an .doc document, so I hope everyone can open it. There are also screen shots for the parameters in Fotosketcher, Angled Strokes, and Lighting effects.

The steps for giving the paint strokes a look of thickness are somewhat involved, so I also uploaded a photoshop action I created to simplify the process. It was created in Photoshop CS3.

If I left out something, so please let me know.

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by skipatk

Glad to share Steve. However, this is my first attempt at a tutorial. I saved it as an .doc document, so I hope everyone can open it. There are also screen shots for the parameters in Fotosketcher, Angled Strokes, and Lighting effects.

The steps for giving the paint strokes a look of thickness are somewhat involved, so I also uploaded a photoshop action I created to simplify the process. It was created in Photoshop CS3.

If I left out something, so please let me know.

Altho I don't have CS3, only Elements 8, I'll see what I come up with. And if anything worthwhile shows up I'll post it.

Steve C.

[gholmes1936]

What can a Mac user use in place of FotoSketcher, huh? Anyone, puleeze!

[palms]

Originally Posted by palms1

looks good to me as well, had a thought though and will be back later with it if it works

Palms

it didn't work ! I wondered if adding a texture would add to it in any way especially a canvas one but It just lost detail, although the ps canvas texturizer one worked best

Palms

[skipatk]

Palms - Texture for me seems to add that final touch. I have been able to collect a few different canvas textures by doing a google search for canvas textures and then converting them to .psd files for use in Photoshop's Texturizer.

Gunner - Maybe the creator of Fotosketcher will build a MAC version?

Steve - I'm not that familar with Elements 8, but I have seen a couple of places on the internet about converting Photoshop actions to Elements 8. If I can find them again I will post the link.

[gholmes1936]

Maybe Corel Painter would do the trick. I'm pretty sure that it will, even the less expensive one Painter Essentials should work. I'll try it. Now that I think about it they both will add brush strokes to the "canvas."

[Joeven]

Originally Posted by palms1

it didn't work ! I wondered if adding a texture would add to it in any way especially a canvas one but It just lost detail, although the ps canvas texturizer one worked best

Palms

Palms try desaturating your texture layer-then run high pass filter at 0.5 to 1.0 and then change the blend mode to Linear Light. Your texture will show up without losing the original pics detail.

Joe

[skipatk]

Great tip Joe. Here is another idea to try:

Duplicate the Texture Layer
Apply the High Pass filter at .3 to .6 (Maybe more depending on your picture)
Change blend mode to Overlay

[palms]

some great tips there !

here's one i learnt from Swampy
new layer > fill with 50% grey > texturizer ( any one of your choice)
then use opacity and blendmodes to taste ( and colour if wanted)

here is a great canvas texture but it is a biggish file if i remember right

http://www.trimoon.com/html/downloads.html

Palms

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by skipatk

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Steve - I'm not that familar with Elements 8, but I have seen a couple of places on the internet about converting Photoshop actions to Elements 8. If I can find them again I will post the link.

Elements 8 will take actions, but uses different ones from the full program. I have tried the conversion you are referring to, and it's a royal pain to use, (at least for me.)

Thanks.

Steve C.

[Nasturtium]

Originally Posted by gholmes1936

What can a Mac user use in place of FotoSketcher, huh? Anyone, puleeze!

try the action Danny posted in post #36 of this thread;
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/pho...html#post61158