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Oil painting in photoshop, is it

possible to get that oil brush work ina flat image? I was messing with

Photoshop yesterday trying to make

a photo look like a Rembrandt

painting.

A Rembrandt, yeah right, shut up, thats, nevergoing to happen

Okay aim lower, how about a hand painted art

effect? inspired by the colour palette of Rembrandt.

He used a technique called chiaroscuro. Its an Italian

word that basically means that you use dark

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shadows with bright light. The theory is the contrast

gives a painting an intense depth that draws the eye

into the painting.

No photoshop filters required

I dont use many adobe ps filters, turns out most are

total crap. Try the art effects, they are shockingly

bad, nothing like what I would expect anyway. Rant

over, Im using ps cs5to get this oil painting effect,

but its so simple you could do it with any version.

You dont need any fancy filters(apart from sharpen),no graphics tablet, and to be honest very little skill to

achieve nice results from your photo. Im sure there

are third party filters that would get you close to this

oil painting effect but Im not using them here.

Oil painting in photoshop

First off you need a good photo, the higher the

Rembrandt

Before starting my

oil painting I tried to

adjust the photo
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resolution the better. This wont work so well with a

tiny 72dpi image, so get a good hires photo to start

with. Its also best, if you have your subject in the

middle of the frame, looking at the camera. You

could do this oil painting with any subject matter, but

for this tutorial well keep it simple.

Sit and watch the time lapse video of me working,

the oil painting technique is very easy. The basic

premise is that we are brushing over the top of the

original image with the smudge tool. Its all in the

brush workor in this case the mouse work and

goes something like this.

colour to

Rembrandts

palette, trying to

get yellow ocher

and burnt sienna

kind of look andfeel.


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Lets break it down

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

2. Select the smudge tool


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3. Duplicate your photo layer

4. Follow the contour of the face and smudge

very roughly at first

5. Use long flowing brush marks (the aim is to

smudge everything, eventually)

6. After you have smudged each area, like the

ear, flatten with the layer below

7. Adjust the Strength of the smudge tool to get

different effects.

8. Duplicate the layer and smudge again

Oil painting in photoshop tips

Change your paint brush, and brush size often, so

the brush marks are not all the same. The eye for

instance will need a smaller brush, the forehead a

bigger brush.

The fan brushis good for blending. Ive used it to

blend the edge of the person to the background, to

give that blurry, misty painting technique.


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Push the paint around from dark areas to lighter

areas and vice versa. Use long and short brush

strokes. Dont worry if you make a mistake, just undo

or smudge the paint over the mistake.

Change the strength of the smudge tool, 80% isgood for strong bold brush marks, 40% is good to

blend the paint rather than smudge it. Less than 40%

produces very delicate results a bit like the blur tool.

You could use blur filter to blur the edge of the

figure, so it looks a bit more dreamlike. Be careful

not to over do it.

Just to recap:

Change the brush size often

Use the fan brush

Push colour around

Change the brush strength

Sharpen the image to get realistic brushstrokes


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Once you have finished your smudge painting, you

need to sharpen your image to reveal the brush

marks. This really brings the painting to life, it makes

it pop, and looks like real brush strokes it goes

something like this.

1. Duplicate your paint layer

2. Use filter/smart sharpen

3. Set Amount to 500% and radius of 1.8

(depending on your photo resolution, adjust)

A close up of the brush

work, as you can see

the sharpen effect really

brings out the brush

work. It gives it depth

so it looks a bit like

thick strokes of paint.


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4. Look good? now knock back the opacity a

bit.

Optionally add a texture layer

Finally Ive added a kind of paint overlay to my whole

image and knocked it back. I just wanted some extra

texture in the background to give it a kind of aged

look. You dont need this, but I liked it.

This technique might sound complicated but trust

me its not, anyone can create an oil painting in

photoshop.

Before photoshop


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After the oil painting effect


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Get me to do the oil painting for you

If you dont have time to do your own oil painting in

photoshop then you can hire me to do it for you. I

now offer this as a service, but be warned its not

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cheap. It can take well over 5 hrs work to create the

oil painting effect.

Ive proved that its not that difficult but it does take

time. Cost depends on your picture, the more

complex the more it costs. I generally charge around

150 for a print ready piece of artwork.

If you are interested youll need

A high resolution photograph (nothing shot

on your mobile phone)

A well lit photographA head a shoulder shot

Feel free to mail meto talk about your project.

That is all.

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This is sick!!! and the fact that its done with zero actions

(which are horrible by the way) just makes it awesome!

October 5, 2013 at 8:07 am

Thanks for the feeback westwood

August 16, 2013 at 12:02 am

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Best is always simplest, thanks for this!

September 20, 2013 at 9:56 pm

Just what I needed. Thanks for the easy to follow tips!

October 4, 2013 at 10:45 pm

Nice tutorial.

You talk about a big art brush (fan brush is good)

I see several brushes in Photoshop, but no art brush collection.

Could you be more specific?

Greetings,

Jeroen

October 5, 2013 at 8:11 am

Jeroen at the time of creating this I was using cs5, Im using

photoshop cs6 now if you select the brush tool then click the

brushes drop down (top left) the fan brush is about the 14-16

brush. I think its always been there even in older versions of

photoshop.

Its not part of any art brush collection, its a basic brush, I call it

an art brush because it has a brush icon rather than a round

icon, and its a fan brush that traditional artists use (I think to

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Trista

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amy

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blend colours)

Hope that helps you.

October 31, 2013 at 11:48 pm

ARGH! Ive been looking for how to do this for ages! Everyone

is so taken with actions, but it just looks like a garbage filter.

THIS makes sense to me! And I dont have a tablet, so mouse

painting is the best I can do! Thanks x100000

January 2, 2014 at 8:20 pm

I dont have a tablet either, just good old mouse.

November 5, 2013 at 2:04 pm

Thank you so much! I paint as well as being a graphic designer

and i think this is so much fun and useful , very nice of you to

share :)


I personally Think article, How to make a photo

look like an oil painting in photoshop was in fact spot on!

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February 13, 2014 at 7:53 am

Are you human or spam, its hard to tell these days!


DUDE! you are a life saver! :D

you just helped me on my wedding invitations man!

i love it!!!

Godspeed!


Glad it helped!

November 28, 2013 at 12:28 am

What kind of paint overlays did you use? Did you get them

from another website for free?

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It was just a few paint textures I found on the web, nothing

special, you could use a cracked paint texture, to give it an

aged look.

January 16, 2014 at 9:01 am

Very nice!

January 16, 2014 at 10:45 am

Thanks for the great guide, exactly what I have been looking

for.


How did you get the brush to also smudge the image as well?and which brush did you use? Did I need to smudge the whole

image or just the outline of his head (including ears)? Do I only

need the brush for the rest of the picture?

January 24, 2014 at 8:37 am

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Alfie

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Tito

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Wow!

Just what I like: no fancy effects, layer styles, etc. Just an artist

and a his tools :)

February 5, 2014 at 7:16 pm

This is genius! Thanks! I hope theres a normal rate version of

the video.


nope! its gone, the file was massive and I needed the space.

Also it would be very boring watching 4hrs of this, almost like

watching paint dry.

February 11, 2014 at 5:27 pm

Nice tutorial, It really help me, Im trying to make a Russiangenerals portrait with my dads face.


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Tito

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Tito, Ive seen that somewhere on the internet, looked really

good, thinking of doing the same thing myself. Good Luck.

March 5, 2014 at 2:00 pm

Done!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordtito/12482147613/

March 8, 2014 at 8:08 am

Lovin your work!


Amazing! Thank you for sharing!

March 4, 2014 at 9:08 am

Thnx Sir,

I like this tutorial. Its very easy & Effective

March 8, 2014 at 8:08 am

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Esther

Greta

Evy

no problem

March 18, 2014 at 10:43 pm

This was great. Good job! Thank you for sharing!I also agree with one of the other comments . Just what I

like: no fancy effects, layer styles, etc. Just an artist and a his

tool.

March 24, 2014 at 4:59 am

Thats a great tutorial! Thank you for showing us your method.

Overpainting really lifts a portrait, and a painted photo makes

a great gift too how often do people get their portraits

painted nowadays? Plus you can use it to get all sorts of cool

effects that cant be done in real life, or special lighting, props

or environments. A NZ-based artist that I know used a photo of

his son to create this illustration of Mark Twains Huckleberry

Finn for a recent exhibition, he made a process video and the

results are just gorgeous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=CQpqKlkGyD4

September 22, 2014 at 9:57 pm

Thank you for this amazing post! :)


C l d
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