transforming a picture to an oil painting

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Eli Aran
Oct 23, 2004
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I am desperately looking for a tutorial on how to make a scanned picture look like a painted work.
with the "Simplifier" filter I only managed to make a picture look like a "flat" water color sketch
but what I am trying to do is create a birthday gift for my wife using her picture.
I plan to scan it with very high resolution and enlarge the outcome to a poster size picture and frame it.
I want to transform her picture to look like a oil painting so I need it to have relatively thick masses of paint
and I need it to be three dimensional so I want the areas of color to be bright on one side and dark for shadows on the other.
I am willing to work with layers and masks though I am not too familiar with using them.
I would highly appreciate if you could please send me a tutorial on this subject or point me toward a relevant location.
my wife’s birthday is December 13. I am not looking for a one-click magical transformation.
I really want the picture to look like it was thoroughly worked-on and I want it to really look like a Van Gogh (or any other modern oil painter) style.
thank you very much for your kind help!
Eli
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noone
Oct 23, 2004
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I am desperately looking for a tutorial on how to make a scanned picture look like a painted work.
with the "Simplifier" filter I only managed to make a picture look like a "flat" water color sketch
but what I am trying to do is create a birthday gift for my wife using her picture.
I plan to scan it with very high resolution and enlarge the outcome to a poster size picture and frame it.
I want to transform her picture to look like a oil painting so I need it to have relatively thick masses of paint
and I need it to be three dimensional so I want the areas of color to be bright on one side and dark for shadows on the other.
I am willing to work with layers and masks though I am not too familiar with using them.
I would highly appreciate if you could please send me a tutorial on this subject or point me toward a relevant location.
my wife’s birthday is December 13. I am not looking for a one-click magical transformation.
I really want the picture to look like it was thoroughly worked-on and I want it to really look like a Van Gogh (or any other modern oil painter) style.
thank you very much for your kind help!
Eli

Eli,
While PS has several "painterly" Filters, that will yield similar results to what you are looking for, Corel’s Painter is the perfect application for conversion to a "painting." There is even an Auto-clone feature in Painter, that will mimick the Van Gogh technique.

You might want to do a Google search for Photoshop and Van Gogh, as I seem to recall a Plug-in for PS for this effect, but don’t have the URL handy. I’m not sure of how effective it is, but CAN attest to the excellent results in Painter.

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kundeservice
Oct 23, 2004
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Eli Aran typed:
I am desperately looking for a tutorial on how to make a scanned picture look like a painted work.
with the "Simplifier" filter I only managed to make a picture look like a "flat" water color sketch
but what I am trying to do is create a birthday gift for my wife using her picture.
I plan to scan it with very high resolution and enlarge the outcome to a poster size picture and frame it.
I want to transform her picture to look like a oil painting so I need it to have relatively thick masses of paint
and I need it to be three dimensional so I want the areas of color to be bright on one side and dark for shadows on the other. I am willing to work with layers and masks though I am not too familiar with using them.
I would highly appreciate if you could please send me a tutorial on this subject or point me toward a relevant location.
my wife’s birthday is December 13. I am not looking for a one-click magical transformation.
I really want the picture to look like it was thoroughly worked-on and I want it to really look like a Van Gogh (or any other modern oil painter) style.
thank you very much for your kind help!
Eli

You can start out here:
http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?sid=161032&page=1 The effects are more like watercolor than oil on canvas, but you ought to try it, and get a hang at both turtorials and Photoshop.

Next step would be to find turtorials that tell about textures, you’ll need a canvas textured layer in the picture. Try here:
http://www.sketchpad.net/photoshp.htm

Or here:
http://www.wetzelandcompany.com/MonthlyTipA.html

If you search the web for _photoshop turtorial_ you’ll find lots and lots of turtorials for different uses. You can limit the search by adding a third word/category, for instance layers, blending mode, filters etc.

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John H
Oct 25, 2004
Eli,

The program you need is Corel Painter IX – just released, and you can find details at
http://www.corel.com/painterix/home/index.html

You simply open your photo in the program, select Quick Clone from the File menu and start painting with brushes you can chose from a huge array of oil and other brushes (and you can create you own to control the bristles and thickness of the oil). You can select the texture of the surface of the painting, and apply lighting to it,, etc etc etc.

The program can do far more than that of course, and even has KPT plugins some of which are very useful,

You can download the program for a 30 day free trial that is fully functional and allows you to save your work. The trial program comes with heaps of built in tutorials and access to many others on line.

The downside is that it’s a big file to download if you don’t have a cable or DSL connection. But you can set your computer to the task when you plan to do other things for a while.

John

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 23:29:58 +0200, "Eli Aran" wrote:

I am desperately looking for a tutorial on how to make a scanned picture look like a painted work.
with the "Simplifier" filter I only managed to make a picture look like a "flat" water color sketch
but what I am trying to do is create a birthday gift for my wife using her picture.
I plan to scan it with very high resolution and enlarge the outcome to a poster size picture and frame it.
I want to transform her picture to look like a oil painting so I need it to have relatively thick masses of paint
and I need it to be three dimensional so I want the areas of color to be bright on one side and dark for shadows on the other.
I am willing to work with layers and masks though I am not too familiar with using them.
I would highly appreciate if you could please send me a tutorial on this subject or point me toward a relevant location.
my wife’s birthday is December 13. I am not looking for a one-click magical transformation.
I really want the picture to look like it was thoroughly worked-on and I want it to really look like a Van Gogh (or any other modern oil painter) style.
thank you very much for your kind help!
Eli

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O Ransen
Oct 26, 2004
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 23:29:58 +0200, "Eli Aran" wrote:

I am desperately looking for a tutorial on how to make a scanned picture look like a painted work.

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