Re: oil painting technique in photoshop 6 572 by Ed on 05/23/01 at 7:34 PM
Re: oil painting technique in photoshop 6

In Reply to: Re: oil painting technique in photoshop 6 posted by Patrick on 05/23/01 at 12:41 PM:

: Well, I can't argue about Photoshop being a great program - it's my bread and butter professionally! I like to play around with the noise > median filter to get painterly effects (you can go back and forth with median and sharpen a couple of times for a nice acrylic-painting look!)

I’ve tried a similar routine a couple of times myself with some pleasing results.

Playing around with some filtering routines the last couple of days I found something you might like to give a try if you get a chance: copy the image to a new channel, crystalise it and ripple it at a fairly low setting. Change the opacity of the channel to 50% and merge it with the original. Then apply the glowing edges filter to the merge, fade it using lighten at 50% to 100%. Looks really nice I think and it’s worth playing around with various modes for very different effects - softlight and exclusion are both good.

: Also, if you load a canvas texture into an alpha channel, then load that channel as a selection, when you paint on a layer it will look like your brush is painting onto canvas!

Yep, done that too! Have you tried a noise-based selection? It’s very memory intensive but worth playing around with. There are some third-party plugins for noisy brushes that give similar results I believe.

: Still, I really have to say that Painter does it all SO much better in the faux-natural-media world that I would suggest you really need it in your arsenal. One way to avoid the price would be to buy a peripheral device that bundles "Painter Classic" (a repackaged earler version of Painter) for free. If you get a Wacom tablet, which you should have anyway, that will have it. So will many scanners.

Yep, coupled with a Wacom tablet Painter is amazing although I haven’t used it myself I have seen a training MPEG and some examples and they were very impressive.


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Well, I can't argue about Photoshop being a great program - it's my bread and butter professionally! I like to play around with the noise > median filter to get painterly effects (you can go back and forth with median and sharpen a couple of times for a nice acrylic-painting look!) : I’ve tried a similar routine a couple of times myself with some pleasing results. : Playing around with some filtering routines the last couple of days I found something you might like to give a try if you get a chance: copy the image to a new channel, crystalise it and ripple it at a fairly low setting. Change the opacity of the channel to 50% and merge it with the original. Then apply the glowing edges filter to the merge, fade it using lighten at 50% to 100%. Looks really nice I think and it’s worth playing around with various modes for very different effects - softlight and exclusion are both good. Also, if you load a canvas texture into an alpha channel, then load that channel as a selection, when you paint on a layer it will look like your brush is painting onto canvas! : Yep, done that too! Have you tried a noise-based selection? It’s very memory intensive but worth playing around with. There are some third-party plugins for noisy brushes that give similar results I believe. Still, I really have to say that Painter does it all SO much better in the faux-natural-media world that I would suggest you really need it in your arsenal. One way to avoid the price would be to buy a peripheral device that bundles "Painter Classic" (a repackaged earler version of Painter) for free. If you get a Wacom tablet, which you should have anyway, that will have it. So will many scanners. : Yep, coupled with a Wacom tablet Painter is amazing although I haven’t used it myself I have seen a training MPEG and some examples and they were very impressive.

 
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