painted brick

RG
Posted By
robert_glotzbach
May 15, 2008
Views
426
Replies
5
Status
Closed
Hello all,

I’m having a image of a house with stone bricks and need to adjust these bricks as if thy are painted with grey paint.
Could someone please advice me or direct me to a useful tutorial of how to accomplish something like this. I experimented a lot already but without success.

Thanks in advance,

Robert

How to Master Sharpening in Photoshop

Give your photos a professional finish with sharpening in Photoshop. Learn to enhance details, create contrast, and prepare your images for print, web, and social media.

DM
dave_milbut
May 15, 2008
select all areas to tint, add a hue/saturation/lightness adjustment layer in the layers palette, check the colorize box and play with the sliders. (to change from a color to gray, move the saturation slider down).

I used this method to select a color to paint my house. 🙂
RG
robert_glotzbach
May 16, 2008
Hello Dave.

Thanks for replying.
I was going that route that you described already, but unfortunately this is not going to do the trick. I think the secret lies in the fact that you will not find different colors/contrast in a painted wall, but probably a light shadow where the grouting jumps back, whereas in a unpainted wall you will see those differences. So in this particular case I have a reddish stone with a lighter grouting that should receive a slightly darker tone than the “painted” bricks. To complicate it a little, there are also shadows on the façade that I need to preserve.
Also when a wall is painted you will see that it becomes a little shiny in a certain way.

Well If there are some idea’s I would be glad to hear them. In the mean time I continue to do some experimenting.

Thanks again,

Kind regards, Robert
JJ
John Joslin
May 16, 2008
My preferred way is to select the areas to be changed as before, but then add a Solid Color adjustment layer of the tint you want (it can always be changed later). Then play with the blending mode and opacity of the layer to get the desired effect.
GD
george_dingwall
May 16, 2008
Here’s an example using the same method as described by John.

< http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1dhwxNOY7cjs4xQrB2 ommaRX3udPBZ>
JM
J_Maloney
May 16, 2008
But OP does have a point: painted brick has no tonal variance, and very little texture. This could be a particular problem if the brick is "antique". I tried and couldn’t get anything that looked remotely like painted brick. I don’t believe any blending mode will work, without masking the brick surface.

With painted brick, the mortar shows as a bump map, but any coloring in the brick is completely obfuscated. I think unless he can isolate the mortar by color, he’s stuck with a sh!tload of handwork. Maybe better to just paint the house. Or download a pic from somewhere for cloning source. 🙂

I think you want to isolate the mortar as a bump map and use lighting effects or the like to raise a flat tone:

< http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1l8gTKlHbiZadHnuoz QzV0iXm6jyZa0>

Drop the brick pattern back on with a luminosity blend mode, slight blur, and reduced opacity, and you’re starting to get somewhere…

< http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1ab3fVutTipGFgwVn4 nv12fr4NQ7u1>

Of course bump maps will look less and less realistic the more the walls are titled toward the vanishing points. And bad lighting could destroy the effect too. Maybe still better to work with a flat set of bricks like this sample and then drop onto the image using distort.

J

Must-have mockup pack for every graphic designer 🔥🔥🔥

Easy-to-use drag-n-drop Photoshop scene creator with more than 2800 items.

Related Discussion Topics

Nice and short text about related topics in discussion sections