Oil painting in Photoshop. Like oil on canvas

Some photographers and designers are afraid to draw in Photoshop. In the meantime, you can draw in it. To do this, like a real artist, we need a canvas: press "Command (Control for Windows) N"; in addition, we need a palette (Windows menu > Swatches) and brushes.

The first thing we definitely need is a Wacom tablet, preferably an Intous-series. For avid artists, you will also need an Airbrush pen with an additional wheel. About him below.

Let's start by choosing the Brush tool ("b" from the keyboard). It has all the same degrees of transparency as the layers (read about working with them in the magazine "Fotodelo", No. 9, 2009). Let's start with Normal with 100% Opacity and Flow. Next, find the "icon" (Fig. 1) and open the brush settings panel. Brush Presets are variations of Adobe-provided brushes. There are many interesting ones among them, experiment and ... forget. We will create our own unique and best brush. We look at the following "icon" (Fig. 2). Brush Tip Shape - General settings window for this brush. Diameter - diameter in pixels. Flip X/Flip Y - flip the brush along the axes. Angle - angle (measured relative to the horizon line). Roundness - thickness of brush dynamics area. At first glance, it changes the thickness of the brush, in fact, with this parameter everything is more complicated. Don't stop experimenting.

Hardness - the hardness of the brush. Spacing - distance from nearest points (in % of stroke size). Those. at values ​​close to 0% it will draw a solid line, at 100% it will draw circles tightly pressed together, etc. Ascending.

Next is the Shape Dynamics panel (Fig. 3). Most delicious. Size Jitter is spraying by size (again, easier to try than to explain). The ubiquitous Control droplist is a parameter control method. The simplest of them is Fade - fading, this is a software method, it works when you release the mouse or pen, it is practically useless.

All other methods are related to the tablet and pens. The entire Wacom Intous series recognizes Pressure (i.e. pressure on the surface) and Tilt (inclination relative to the surface of the tablet). But the Intous4 Art Pen also supports rotation about its axis (Rotation, Direction and Inital Direction).

Minimal Diameter - minimum dot thickness when spraying. Tilt Scale - change the size of the stroke when the pen is tilted. Incidentally, the tilt of the Wacom pen is measured relative to the angle at which you touched the tablet, and not relative to the axis of the planet, so draw at least on a roller coaster.

Angle Jitter is a chaotic change in the angle of a stroke. But the level of the angle is also controllable with Wacom's capabilities.

Roundness Jitter - spray with a strong change in the shape of the brush. With its help, you can, for example, get the effect of drawing with a toothbrush.

Scattering panel (Fig. 4) - scattering. According to scientific: chaotic displacement of the center of the blot relative to the axis of the stroke line. The most useful is the "engine" Count. By combining this setting with Spacing in the Brush Tip Shape panel, you can get a nice spatter/irrigation effect.

Texture (fig. 5) is a texture. With it, everything is simple: select the desired texture (including the previously created one), the transparency with which it will be projected onto the stroke, and draw. Just pay attention to the Texture Each Tip checkbox. If this option is disabled, the texture will be solid for the entire line, i.e. inseparable. And if you turn it on, then it will fall differently on each blot. And this can also be controlled (for example, by tilting the pen).

We will skip the Dual Brush - this is a mixture of two brushes and a field for creativity of true perverts.

Color Dynamics (Fig. 6). Brush color dynamics. The most useful setting, Fareground / Background Jitter, allows the Background color to penetrate into the primary. Can also be controlled by pen tilt/pressure, etc. An ideal setting for setting on the AirBrush wheel "a. Other parameters (Hue / Saturation / Brightness) allow you to change the hue / color saturation / brightness.

Something else (Fig. 7). The chaotic change of Opacity and Flow - one of the most useful parameters - for some reason ended up in Other, but you shouldn't forget about them.

A Few General Tips

1) Feel free to “hang” several settings on the same pen parameter at once.
2) There are a lot more default brushes in Photoshop than originally presented. Don't be afraid to click the panel view settings button.
3) All settings that are valid for a brush (Brush) are also possible for Clone Stamp and History Brush. With some limitation - for all drawing tools.
4) The bitter truth of Photoshop is that there are a lot of settings in it, but obviously not enough to, for example, simulate an oil brush. So if you decide to draw seriously, you will have to get used to Painter, a lightweight but very functional version of which is attached to any Wacom tablet.
5) If you have been in art school for a long time, but you cannot draw on the computer due to the different tactility of the tablet, try changing the pen or pen tip. They are also different and can simulate different degrees of resistance.

Open your photo.

Then duplicate the layer Ctrl+J and apply the filter Filter > Blur > Smart Blur with parameter values: Radius : 9,1; Threshold : 25,7; Quality: high; mode: Edge Only.

Now invert the image by selecting Image > Adjustments > Invert .

Now we need to load the selection area from the original image. To do this, select Select > Load Selection and press OK. Then add a mask to the duplicate layer Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal Selection .

Now select the eraser tool Eraser Tool with brushes from the set natural brushes .

Set the brush size to a larger size and the Opacity of the brush Opacity about 26%. Set default colors by clicking D. Start erasing the image and you will see how the color will begin to appear, and the image itself will take on the effect of a painting.

Keep working with the Eraser until you achieve the desired effect.

Then go back to the background (original) layer and apply the filter Filter > Texture > Texturizer with settings: Texture:Canvas; Scaling : 99%; Relief : 4; light: Top.

That's all, this is where all the operations end. Good luck adding this effect to your photos.

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To do oil painting effect we need two source images:
background and image of a girl.

Material for work:

1. Create a new document.

We transfer the image Background to work.
Stretching the Background with Free Transform
throughout the document.

2. Open and cut out our girl in any way.
We transfer to work and arrange as in the screenshot.

3.Ctrl+J-create a duplicate layer -girl-.
Change the Blending Mode to Linear Light.
Select Menu-Filter-Other-Color Contrast..

Note. Choose color contrast values
at your discretion, the main thing is that your girlfriend's face
became clearer and more contrasting.

You can also apply Filter - Sharpen - "Smart" sharpness ..

4. On top of all layers, add an adjustment layer
Selective color correction.

We set the values.
For my girlfriend:
Reds: Purple (-100)
Yellow: Blue(-100), Yellow(+100)
Green: Blue(-100), Yellow(+100)
White:Yellow(-100)
Neutrals: Blue(-20)

5. We load the Butterfly brushes from the material for work into Adobe Photoshop.
Create a new layer and draw butterflies like in the screenshot.
Add layer styles to the butterfly layer Shadow and Outer Glow.

6. Convert the layer -butterflies- into a smart object.
What is a smart object can be read
Select Menu-Filter-Blur-Motion Blur..

7. Click on the filter effect mask thumbnail.
Take a soft black round brush, Opacity 50%.
We erase in some places the blur effect on the butterflies.

8.Create a new layer and draw stars.
Also add an Outer Glow layer style.
Set the values ​​to your liking.

9. Get on the layer -girl-.
Add to layer -girl- layer styles Outer Glow and Stroke.

10. Get on the topmost layer
and press the key combination Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E - print all visible layers
(or just do Merge All Visible Layers)

Ctrl + J - make a duplicate.
We zoom in on the image.

Let's start to draw our picturesque picture.

We load the brushes that are offered at the beginning of the lesson for download into Adobe Photoshop.
Select the Finger Tool.
Choose from a set of brushes Brush number 795.

11. Set the size of the brush, which is more convenient for you,
In my work, at first I set the brush size to 70%, Intensity to 40%.

We begin to draw on our girl.
First of all, draw on the girl's face.
In the course of work, the Intensity values ​​are reduced if necessary.
and the size of the brush is done somewhere smaller, somewhere more.
We try to move the brush in such a way as to observe the main directions of the anatomy of the face:
along the nose, around the eyes, along the cheekbones, along the lines of the lips.
Draw the same on the edges of the eyes, pupils, sinuses.

Then we move on to the arms, neck.
We process each finger separately.
Also change the Intensity and Size of the brush.
During the blur, we do: circular movements, along, across.
We draw on our girl in such a way that not a single untreated area remains.

Note. This processing, of course, takes a lot of time and patience.
From the first time, you may not succeed as you would like.
The more often you practice this interesting effect,
the faster you will achieve high-quality results.

Then we move on to the hair.
Increase the intensity on the hair up to 50%.
You can try to take another brush from the presented set,
for example 557 or 464 or 500-experiment.

We draw clothes and a wreath on the girl’s head with a brush
Intensity 25-30%. We also change the size of the brush.
We draw each leaf separately
Imagine that you are painting on paper.

12. When finished with the processing of the girl,
create a new layer on top of the layer with the girl,
To do this, press Ctrl+Shift+N.

13. Take the tool O-Clarifier and Dimmer
We set Exposure, about 10-15%,
values ​​again, we change in the course of work -
somewhere more, somewhere less.
And with a regular round soft brush, also in the course of work
by changing its size we lighten the light parts of the face, hands, hair of the girl.
Darken the dark areas with a dimmer.

It is difficult for me to describe in words exactly where to lighten and darken,
therefore, do not be too lazy to watch the video lesson from Bratskij Valentin
and, hopefully, it will become clear how to work with the Dodge and Burn tools.

14. Finished with the drawing of the girl,
added lights and shadows.
Now we make a print of all visible layers - press the key combination Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E.
Add a Photo Filter Adjustment Layer.

Oil paint filter (oil paint) is one of the latest additions to Photoshop, which uses the engine MGE (Mercury Graphics Engine), which in turn uses the computing power of the GPU. But, we do not really need this information, so let's get to work.

Since the filter is new, you can only find it in Photoshop CS6. For the convenience of calling the tool, the developers moved it directly to the "Filter" menu.

Such attention to the filter is not accidental, because it easily copes with such a difficult task as making a picture out of a photo in Photoshop, while in the preview window, you can watch the changes made by the program in real time.

The filter has six sliders. Four of them are for brush settings, and the other two are for lighting. Using the Bristle Detail and Stylization sliders, you can add contrast to the new brush strokes. With their help, light borders appear between each swirl and curve, making the effect more pronounced. These settings differ in that the first mainly affects the contrast, and the second creates an additional effect of randomness in the picture.

Using the slider Cleanliness (Purity) you can change the detail of all brush strokes. If you set this parameter to a high value, then you will get strokes with a new soft brush. Accordingly, a low value will give the effect of painting with a dirty, old brush with sticky bristles.

The Scale parameter, or "scale", changes the size of the brush.

The last two sliders Angular Direction (Angle) and Shine (Shine) best explain how to make an oil painting from a photo in Photoshop. Quite simply, these parameters are responsible for the angle at which the simulated light falls on the canvas, which also affects the contrast that appears between strokes (Angular Direction). The second effect sets the general visualization of changes. So these two settings are very, very important!

Painting an oil painting

This method is more complex and time-consuming than the oil paint filter, but it has its place, as it opens up other horizons for turning a photo into a painting. By the way, using this method, you will have more opportunities to show your creativity.

Making a photo as a picture in Photoshop is quite simple, we will analyze it step by step.

• Let's open our image.
• Create a new layer and use the Fill tool to fill it with white.

• Now select the Art History Brush tool.
• In the History palette, set the checkbox to Set the Source for History Brush.
• In the settings for this tool, select the brush 63 “Wide stroke of oil pastel” (Oil Pastel).
• Set the diameter of this brush to 30.

Right click on the image and make the brush smaller. Now start coloring the layer. The smaller the size you set, the smaller the strokes will be and the more detailed your picture will be.

After the end of this rather lengthy procedure, apply “Contour sharpness” (Unsharp Mask), which is located in the menu “Filter” – “Sharpness”. This action will make your strokes more expressive. In this filter, you can experiment with the settings and leave the ones that you like the most.

Now there are mere trifles on the way to how to make a picture from photos in Photoshop. For more convincing and realism, use the Texturizer filter, which you can find in the Filter Gallery. From the "Texture" list that appears, select "Canvas" and, based on the preview window, select the parameter value you need.

After these simple manipulations, our photo looks like a natural oil painting. The longest part of this method is the manual application of strokes. This is actually the most interesting part!

Finally, I must say that in Photoshop there are several more ways to create a picture from a photograph, as well as various other stylizations, but for some reason I like the described two methods the most.

Creative success to you!

Creating a real picture from a photo is not at all difficult. To do this, you need a suitable photo, Photoshop and some skills in working in this graphic editor.

There are many plug-ins that simulate brush strokes, making pictures look like paintings, but all the automation does not look quite natural. To achieve the best result, all strokes will have to be done independently. Do not worry. You don't have to learn how to draw portraits. It's already drawn by your camera.

The work will take some time. She is very diligent. You can't use a regular brush. You need a brush similar in shape to the one used by artists. After all, a real brush is not round. Each brush hair leaves its own unique mark. This is what we need. We will draw not with a brush, but with a finger. But not yours, but Photoshop's. On the toolbar there is the "Finger" of the same name. You can choose the brush yourself. There are suitable ones in the Photoshop kit. In the picture below, you can see what the brush used in the example looks like.

To open the brush settings, press the F5 key. The drawing interval must be reduced to 1%. This will make the strokes smoother, but will require more processing power from your computer. You can find the spacing setting in the Brush Tip Shape panel.

Next, change the intensity of the brush to 70%. You can use your own values. Before we start, duplicate the layer. This way you can easily go back to the previous steps. If you have a graphics tablet, you can use it. This will make the job easier and easier.

To create strokes, you need to stretch the pixels. You can make bold sweeping movements. This will determine your drawing style. Move the brush along the lines and contours. Move around the edges of the face first. Move around the lips, go around the ears, do not forget about clothes. Processing is similar to real painting. Only all the colors are already in the right place on the canvas. If you get a sloppy stroke, you can always undo the last action.

Change the brush size depending on the size of the processed elements. Working through the eyes, nose and lips, reduce the brush. When painting over the background, you can safely increase the brush, but do not make it too large. Artists rarely use paint brushes in their work.

Initially, the colors in your picture will be dull and not very expressive. They will be too natural. Just make a copy of the layer and set it to blending mode “Overlap” (Overlay). Additionally, work with light and shadow. How to do this you can find in the lessons on Dodge and burn. Try to emphasize volume and shape.

Detailing strokes can be expressed by sharpening. You can also use the free HDR Efex Pro 2 plugin from Google Nik Collection. This plugin will make the photo more colorful. Instead of HDR Efex Pro 2, you can use the standard Shadows/Main plugin. It can be found in the Images - Adjustments tab.

Finally, add the canvas texture. It's not hard to find it on the internet. Place the texture as the topmost layer and change the blending mode to “Multiply” (Multiply). You can also experiment with the Overlay and Soft Light modes. Don't forget to change the opacity of the layer. So you can achieve the most natural result.

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