This is my second tutorial in my blog series of photoshop cs4 tutorials. We started up with something simple as the snow effect and now i thought we should turn up the notch a bit and try and do something a bit difficult. At the end of this tutorial you should be able to transform your photos into an oil painting. The picture below illustrates this transformation.
As my workpiece I have chosen the picture of Indra Chowk in Kathmandu Durbar Square.
Lets get started now.
Step 1: Open the picture in photoshop and duplicate the background layer.
Step 2: Use the Smart Blur option. Go to Filter>Blur>Smart Blur> set the Radius and Treshold to 100(or something like that), Quality: Low, Mode: Normal
Step 3: Again duplicate the background layer and place it above the other two layers. Then go to Filter>Artistic>Poster Edges,Edge Thickness:1, Edge Intensity:2, Posterization:0- for this picture I've found that these settings are the best,but it can vary for another picture- you choose what's the best.
Step 4: Right click on this layer and chose Blending options then set the blend mode to luminosity and the Opacity to about 70%.
Step 5: Duplicate the background layer again and name it duplicate 2. Place this layer between the other two duplicate layers. Then go to Filter> Blur> Smart Blur, set the Threshold high, Radius something about half, Quality: High, Mode: Edge Only, then go to Image> Adjustment> Invert, Soft light, Opacity 45%
Step 6: Duplicate the layer duplicate 2 and go to Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur, and set the to about 3,5 and then set the Opacity to about 80%
Step 7:Get back to the layer Duplicate,click on Image> Adjustments> Levels and adjust the sliders as you wish to make the "drawing" darker or brighter
Step 8: Then go to Filter> Sharpen> Unsharp Mask and set the Amount,Radius and Threshold to accent some lines on the "painting" and that's it!
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