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After I posted two of my images in the Gallery, showing the before (http://www.retouchpro.com/gallery/sh....php?photo=337) and after (http://www.retouchpro.com/gallery/sh....php?photo=338) results I obtained in using Photoshop's Fresco filter on a park scene in Holland, Danny asked me if I might post a simple tutorial on how I achieved the end results.
Quite honestly, I don't remember all the details since this image is at least a year old now, but I did attempt to recreate it today. Here's my best shot at recreating the effect:
1. First, apply the Fresco filter with brush size, detail, and texture settings all at maximum values.
2. I think this is really the key....I often find that the effect a filter yields, is often overdone and yet tweaking the filter options still fails to provide what I'm after. So...FADE. Selecting the Fade Filter option from the Edit menu, I faded the Fresco filter to 50% and found that changing the mode to Luminosity gave me the effect I was after.
3. Since the Fresco filter has a tendency to block up some colors, depending upon the distribution of the colors in the image, I next reduced the contrast by 10 points.
4. Now, with the reduced contrast flattening the colors a bit, I boosted saturation by 10 points. I tend to this the contrast reduction and increased saturation may actually offset one another in general, but it seemed that there was a little more separation of the edges of leaves in the darker purple areas of the image.
5. Finally, I resized the image to my intended print size of 11x14 inches at 180dpi. I didn't push the resolution any higher since I wanted a somewhat coarser look to the print, being that I was going to print it on artist canvas and thought a slightly lower resolution migh impart more of the "painted" quality to the print. I was pleased with the final result.
One thing I discovered in today's exercise was that the "blockiness" of the colors introduced by the Fresco filter appears to be more exaggerated if the image is first resized and then filtered, rather than the reverse. I can only assume that the additional interpolated data results in providing perhaps some additional dark colors to the Fresco filter when the image is first resized. So, I opt fo resizing afterwards.
Hope this info is useful,
Daryl
After I posted two of my images in the Gallery, showing the before (http://www.retouchpro.com/gallery/sh....php?photo=337) and after (http://www.retouchpro.com/gallery/sh....php?photo=338) results I obtained in using Photoshop's Fresco filter on a park scene in Holland, Danny asked me if I might post a simple tutorial on how I achieved the end results.
Quite honestly, I don't remember all the details since this image is at least a year old now, but I did attempt to recreate it today. Here's my best shot at recreating the effect:
1. First, apply the Fresco filter with brush size, detail, and texture settings all at maximum values.
2. I think this is really the key....I often find that the effect a filter yields, is often overdone and yet tweaking the filter options still fails to provide what I'm after. So...FADE. Selecting the Fade Filter option from the Edit menu, I faded the Fresco filter to 50% and found that changing the mode to Luminosity gave me the effect I was after.
3. Since the Fresco filter has a tendency to block up some colors, depending upon the distribution of the colors in the image, I next reduced the contrast by 10 points.
4. Now, with the reduced contrast flattening the colors a bit, I boosted saturation by 10 points. I tend to this the contrast reduction and increased saturation may actually offset one another in general, but it seemed that there was a little more separation of the edges of leaves in the darker purple areas of the image.
5. Finally, I resized the image to my intended print size of 11x14 inches at 180dpi. I didn't push the resolution any higher since I wanted a somewhat coarser look to the print, being that I was going to print it on artist canvas and thought a slightly lower resolution migh impart more of the "painted" quality to the print. I was pleased with the final result.
One thing I discovered in today's exercise was that the "blockiness" of the colors introduced by the Fresco filter appears to be more exaggerated if the image is first resized and then filtered, rather than the reverse. I can only assume that the additional interpolated data results in providing perhaps some additional dark colors to the Fresco filter when the image is first resized. So, I opt fo resizing afterwards.
Hope this info is useful,
Daryl
Can't wait to revisit a couple other filters (read: Sumi, Dry Brush, Watercolor, et al) that I'd previously written off as useless, despite promising texture effects.
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