After you have smudged each area, like the ear, flatten with the layer below.

Use long flowing brush marks (the aim is to smudge everything, eventually).

Follow the contour of the face and smudge very roughly at first.

Pick a big art brush (fan brush is good).

Its all in the brush work or in this case the mouse work - and goes something like this. The basic premise is that we are brushing over the top of the original image with the smudge tool. You could do this oil painting with any subject matter, but for this tutorial we'll keep it simple.Sit and watch the time lapse video of me working, the oil painting technique is very easy. It's also best, if you have your subject in the middle of the frame, looking at the camera. This won't work so well with a tiny 72dpi image, so get a good hires photo to start with. I'm sure there are third party filters that would get you close to this oil painting effect but I'm not using them here.įirst off you need a good photo, the higher the resolution the better. Rant over, I'm using ps cs5 to get this oil painting effect, but its so simple you could do it with any version.You don't need any fancy filters (apart from sharpen), no graphics tablet, and to be honest very little skill to achieve nice results from your photo. Try the art effects, they are shockingly bad, nothing like what I would expect anyway.

I don't use many adobe ps filters, turns out most are total crap. The theory is the contrast gives a painting an intense depth that draws the eye into the painting. Its an Italian word that basically means that you use dark shadows with bright light. Okay aim lower, how about a hand painted art effect? inspired by the colour palette of Rembrandt.

Oil painting in photoshop, is it possible to get that oil brush work in a flat image? I was messing with Photoshop yesterday trying to make a photo look like a Rembrandt painting.Ī Rembrandt, yeah right, shut up, that's, never going to happen

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