A charming tutorial from Designerfreelance, in which an art drawing is created from an ordinary photo in a very simple way. First, we will prepare the necessary Photoshop patterns with different slopes of decorative lines. Then we will use the Treshhold filter with different settings for different duplicate layers, which together will create a very beautiful effect. Next, we need a grunge texture with a characteristic print, which we will apply with Multiply and then slightly process it. In conclusion, we will decorate the work with blots and texts.
Step 1.
Let's use some suitable photo, for example this one. 
Step 2
Duplicate the layer from the original and apply “Filter” (Filter)> “Blur” (Blur)> “Smart Blur” (Smart Blur) with the values as in the figure below. Quality (Quality) - High (High), Mode (Mode) - Only edges (Edge Only). 
Step 3
Press Ctrl+I to invert the image. For now, turn this layer off for now. We'll need it later. And let's do one more thing. Create a new layer above the original photo and fill it with white. 
Step 4
In a new document, create a horizontal line. Hold down Shift+Ctrl+Alt and press the right arrow to copy the line. Then we unite all the lines and rotate them 45 degrees. 
Step 5
Select a 100x100 pixel square and crop the drawing. After that, we define a new pattern “Editing” (Edit)> “Define pattern” (Define pattern). 
Step 6
Similarly, we create a second pattern with a slope to the other side. 
Step 7
We return to our main document. After that, make a duplicate of the photo layer and move it above the white layer. Apply “Image” (Image)> “Correction” (Adjustments)> “Isohelium” (Threshold) with the settings as in the figure below. 
Step 8
Apply the layer style “Pattern Overlay”. Blending mode “Replacing light” (Lighten). As a pattern, select the first stripe pattern we created (Step 4-5). 
Step 9
We got this result. Now let's convert the layer to a new Smart Object. Click on the layer with the right mouse button and select the item “Group into a new smart object” (Convert to smart Object). After that, change the blending mode of the layer to “Multiply” (Multiply). 
Step 10
Create another duplicate of the original layer and repeat Steps 7-9 with the difference that in Step 7 we use the value 100 instead of 118, and in Step 8 we use the second pattern we created with a different slope of the stripes. 
Step 11
After that, you should get the following result. 
Step 12
Turn on the top layer of lines that we turned off in Step 3. 
Step 13
Create another duplicate layer from the original photo. Apply to it “Image” (Image)> “Correction” (Adjustments)> “Isohelia” (Threshold). Only now the settings must be even lower to get the effect as in the picture below. After that, change the blending mode of the layer to “Multiply” (Multiply). 
Step 14
In general, after all the manipulations, this result should be obtained. 
Step 15
Let's use some suitable texture, for example this one. 
Step 16
Insert the texture into our document, change the blending mode to “Multiply” (Multiply). 
Step 17
Lower the opacity of the texture layer to 85%. Then select the tool “Eraser” (Eraser Tool), and with a small soft brush with a transparency of 30% we draw over the texture in the area of the forehead, cheeks and chin. 
Step 18
Now let's decorate the background with some available ones. 
Step 19
Finally, let's write some text. 
PS. Guard. Did you know that Model Adriana Lima is a very beautiful girl who is in great demand in the advertising and fashion business and who inspires many designers with her beauty.
The modern world is changing everything, and anyone can become anyone, even an artist. In order to draw, it is not necessary to work in some special place, it is enough just to have programs for drawing art on your computer. This article shows the most famous of these programs.
Any graphics editor can be called an art drawing program, although not every such editor is able to please your desires. It is for this reason that this list will include a variety of programs with different functionality. Most importantly, each of the programs can become both a separate tool in your hands, and enter your set, which you can use in different ways.
This graphic editor is not intended for drawing art. More precisely, it was not designed for this. When it was created, the programmers were inspired by children, and the fact that it is in childhood that we become who we are now. This children's program has musical accompaniment, many tools, but is not very suitable for drawing quality art.
artweaver
This art program is very similar to . It has everything that Photoshop has - layers, corrections, the same tools. But not all tools are available in the free version, and this is an important disadvantage.
ArtRage
ArtRage is the most unique program in this collection. The fact is that the program has a set of tools that is great for drawing not only with a pencil, but also with paints, both oil and watercolor. Moreover, the image drawn by these tools is very similar to the real one. Also in the program there are layers, stickers, stencils and even tracing paper. The main advantage is that each tool can be customized and saved as a separate template, thereby expanding the capabilities of the program.
Paint.NET
If Artweaver was like Photoshop, then this program is more like standard Paint with Photoshop capabilities. It has tools from Paint, layers, correction, effects, and even getting an image from a camera or scanner. Plus, it's completely free. The only negative is that sometimes it works much slower with 3D images.
inkscape
This art drawing program is quite a powerful tool in the hands of an experienced user. It has a very wide functionality and a lot of possibilities. Of the possibilities, the most prominent is the conversion of a raster image to a vector one. There are also tools for working with layers, text and paths.
GIMP
This photo editor is another copy of Adobe Photoshop, but it has a few differences. However, these differences are rather superficial. Here, too, there is work with layers, image correction and filters, but there is also image transformation, moreover, access to it is quite easy.
Paint Tool Sai
A huge number of various instrument settings allow you to create an almost new instrument, which is a plus of the program. Plus, you can customize the toolbar directly. But, unfortunately, all this is available only for one day, and then you have to pay.
In our modern time, it is not necessary to be able to draw in order to create art, it is enough just to have one of the programs presented in this list. They all have one common goal, but almost each of them approaches this goal in different ways, however, with the help of these programs you can create truly beautiful and unique art. What art creation software do you use?
Good day everyone!
Probably, almost every user has seen "strange" photographs of people online, as if it were a picture drawn by an artist. Such a picture has a name - art (example on the left with Nikulin). And, by the way, you can do it quite quickly using special online services.
I think the article will also be useful to all those users who want to make themselves an unusual avatar for social networks (VK, Odnoklassniki, etc.), various forums, applications (for example, Skype, Viber, etc.), and just surprise their friends and relatives.
And so, let's get down to business - to create art.
Note: to make art, you can use various graphic editors (for example, Photoshop). In this article, I will not dwell on classic editors (because while you install the editor, set it up, understand how to do it, you can already make dozens of different cool pictures with the help of the service on the network ☺) ...
Choosing a service with the best photo effects
Pho.to
One of the best Russian-language online services for giving various effects to photos. For example, a color photograph can be remade:
- into a black and white drawing, as if it had been drawn: with a brush, pencil, etc.;
- in a color drawing: there can also be a variety of options;
- into a cool and funny picture. For example, your photo will be placed in a frame drawn by a child, an artist, etc. (examples of options are shown below).
Using the service is extremely simple:
- choose the effect you like first;
- upload your photo;
- and after a few seconds - look at your cool art. An example is shown below: isn't it well drawn?!
How the photo has changed: it was - it became (from left to right)
photomania.net
Another extremely interesting site, which is an online photo editor. Here you can upload a photo and quickly process it: including creating an interesting drawing (art) from it. What captivates this service is that it has quite a lot of the most unusual photo editing options: you can, for example, place your photo on the chest of Messi or Ronaldo, put your photo in a frame, give it a magical style, or make yourself a famous actor.
An example of processing is shown on the screenshot below: in my opinion it looks very realistic ☺.
Another interesting art // Photomania.net
PhotoFaceFun.com
A site with a huge variety of photo effects: here you can put your photo in a frame, make a photo a painted picture, place it next to some celebrity, etc.
Using the service is also simple: upload a photo, select an effect, see the result (in general, three simple steps).
Below are some examples of how the service works. Very good?!
Several pieces of art: in the gallery, with Putin, an old drawing.
Note: if the service will not process your photo, convert it to another format. For example, I was faced with the fact that the service did not want to accept and process the GIF format, resaving the image in JPG (for this you can use Paint, which is in all versions of Windows)- everything started to work normally!
PhotoFunia
A very good Russian-language service with a large collection of photo effects that can be applied to any uploaded photo. What captivates: the choice is simply huge! A photograph can be made in black and white, drawn with a brush or pencil, placed in a frame, with a celebrity, in a TV show, etc.
I note that once you upload your photo, you can immediately try it in a variety of effects (without uploading it a hundred times). Comfortable!
Processing examples are shown below.
A few more interesting effects for the photo: pencil drawing, pendant, gift card (from left to right).
By the way, you might be interested in an article on how to make a photo collage.- . If someone does not know, then a collage is when several photos are combined at once into one large one. It turns out very nice and informative, you can immediately find out how the holiday went (for example).
I say goodbye to sim. Good luck to all!
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This Photoshop tutorial will introduce you to a very famous movement in the visual arts called Pop Art.
Next to pop art is the name Andy Warhol, who was an artist, photographer, filmmaker, and publisher.
It was he who, in the middle of the 20th century, created unique collage paintings from completely unexpected things - from images of cans to such glamorous collages with Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe.
This style became incredibly popular at the time, and countless imitations of the artist's work began to appear.
Because creating pop art pictures is very easy, especially if you own Photoshop.
The technique we want to tell you about is that first a black and white stencil is made based on the original drawing. And then parts of this drawing are painted in very bright colors in different variations.
Any portrait can be turned into a pop art drawing, but a photo with clear boundaries is especially suitable for this.
It is desirable that the person in the photo looks directly into the camera lens.
1. Below is the process of cutting out a boy from his native background and placing him on a new one. It is important for us that the boy and the background are placed on different layers.
To quickly remove a solid background, use the tool - magic wand, if the background is multi-colored, then take the tool - Pen
2. Most likely you have already noticed that pop art images are famous for their very high contrast.
The following steps will remove a lot of small details, so you don't have to be too careful as you go.
Place the bright background layer directly below the working layer (with the boy).
3. To make a high-contrast image, first make sure you are on the cutout boy layer and choose from the menu Image > Adjustment > Threshold.
Move the slider so that the image contains enough shadows so that all the main shapes and features are preserved.
4. Roughly highlight each part of the image that you will color in later.
Press Alt + Ctrl + J to copy each part to a separate layer. Name each new layer. Change the blending mode of each layer to Multiply and hit OK.
5. Activate each layer in turn in the layers palette.
For each, press Ctrl + click on the layer box and go to the menu Edit > Fill .
Click on the Use line, a window will appear where you can select the Color line. Thanks to this, a color palette will appear, where you can choose a bright saturated color to your taste to paint over any part of the image.
6. In the "Layer Style" window (Layer Style appears if you double-click on the layer) select the Color Overlay style (color fill) and change there blending mode (layer blending mode) to Color. Choose a bright color and click OK.
7. When you repeat these steps for each individual section of the image, you will see that you have a real pop art masterpiece in front of you.
8. Save this file in Photoshop format (.psd) and make copies of the layers where you did the coloring. In your layers panel, each area is painted over in a certain color. Now it is very easy to change the color of the area using the Hue / Saturation function (Ctrl + U).
In the end, you can combine all the options into one large image.
This combination of different versions of the same image is very typical of the 60s Pop Art style.
