photoshop – seeking illustrated or paint effect

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unomundo
Oct 9, 2005
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I used to be a painter and illustrator.
I now am a full time photographer trying to give my photographs an illustrated or painted look. I am doing this entirely in Photoshop.
Since I dont want to work at something already done, what are the photoshop plugins that will accomplish this for me ?

thank you
peter
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Tina_Hayes
Oct 9, 2005
Any of the Buzz Plugins <http://www.skydancers.com/_fo2pix/buzzpro3pc.html>

Bear in mind that you still need to do some work after running a plugin…

I own just the Buzz Simplifier and with some tweaks here is an idea of what you can do with a photo:
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Firebird
Oct 9, 2005
Hi,

Danny Raphael is a member here and he and fellow artists have a great collection of Actions here: <http://www.atncentral.com/>
Click on Downloads for the list of Actions. (lots of Artistic effects here and a great place to learn how.

NOTE: Thank you Danny, I use some of your Actions regularly.

Yours in Art,
Firebird
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Terrat
Oct 10, 2005
PS simplifiers are Filter > Cutout and Layers > Posterize.

Also, Mathius V. has an action posted in "The Lounge"…link at the top of the User forum page.
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Danny Raphael
Oct 10, 2005
Firebird:

Thanks for the kind words. 🙂

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unomundo:

For more ideas and techniques check forums like:
* < http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&for umid=110> * <http://www.innographx.com/forum/>

Other plugins:
* Virtual Painter (PC only)
* Impressionist (PC only, free): <http://www.Trimoon.com> – click ‘Downloads’
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unomundo
Oct 11, 2005
thanks and thanks again

I am now evaluating which tool to get.
Stops me fom hours and hours of experimentation.

My favorite tool is from Jan Esmann of PowerRetouche.

I am just testing the Buzz tools.
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Philo_Calhoun
Oct 11, 2005
I know it has been said before, but with your background you may find Corel Painter will give you much more artistic freedom than any preset action or plugin for Photoshop.
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Firebird
Oct 11, 2005
Hi again;-)

Here is a Plugin (4 sets of 9 filters) that I use a lot. Download the 4 sets and unzip them into your Plugins Folder. (they appear as one group in your Filters Menu).

TIP: Make a new folder on Desktop (name Xero) and unzip them into the Xero folder. Then drag the folder into your Plugins Folder.

You’ll find that the more you use them the more powerful they become. Combined with the various blending modes in (Fade= whatever), the potential is far reaching.
Enjoy,
Firebird

<http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/downloads.htm#plugins> Download from Freeware Plugins; Site 2 (site 1 is down).

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PS: Try "Pastellise" 1st (on an untouched photo). Set Style to Colour. Set the Softness Slider to far left and the Strength Slider to the far right and Play with them till you get an effect(similar to that Soft-Colour-Sketch that you like) Click OK; then go to Edit/Fade/Hard Mix, use Slider and watch the magic. [If you like it w/o the Fade, simply click Cancel…or try some other mode].

* It’s also a quick way to fix a dark photo. (sharpens and lightens). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~
I use "Tweaker" a lot and "Super smooth" is great for digital noise removal in a Sky and Flesh (doesn’t blur). etc, etc….

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