Try to follow along on an image of your own. There is a lot going on in this tutorial. It yields a much more natural painted look. This technique will simulate different brush strokes for the various regions of the photo.
We will then go into the Oil Paint filter and a create different settings for each region.
In today’s tutorial, I will show you how to separate your image into three distinct regions using Blend If. After thinking about the second selection method and the Oil Paint filter, a little light bulb kicked on and I developed a unique technique for creating an oil painted effect in Photoshop. The second approach was using Blend If, which adapts its selection based on the underlying tones. The first approach was with Luminosity Masking, which is a very powerful approach to photo editing, but it makes a static selection. In a recent tutorial, Luminosity Masking versus Blend If, I showed you how to break your image into three distinct regions using two different approaches. So if you think like these programs, you can make the Photoshop filter work wonders. These plugins use various algorithms for highlights and shadows to make the image look like a more natural painted photograph. There are lots of great photo painting plugins on the market like Topaz Impression or Rebelle. Some words come to mind, kitsch, contrived, automated, and crap. It looks like someone just threw a filter on a photo and called it a day. As it stands, by itself, it is less than desirable. In the Layers panel, right-click on an empty gray part of the layer.The Oil Paint Filter can be Great with some tweaking.Īs a former painter, I wanted the Oil Paint Filter in Photoshop to be incredible. This is especially helpful if you need to apply two copies of the Oil Paint filter on the same image, as we’ll see how to do later.
This will let you apply Oil Paint as a smart filter which will keep the filter settings editable in case you want to go back and make changes. You can get the latest Photoshop version here.ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! Step 1: Convert your layer into a smart objectīefore applying the Oil Paint filter, first convert the layer into a smart object. So I recommend Photoshop 2022 or higher for the best results. Then in Photoshop 2022, the Oil Paint filter received a performance upgrade, making it faster when working on larger images. The Oil Paint filter first appeared way back in Photoshop CS6 but then disappeared in Photoshop CC, only to reappear again in CC 2015. A photo converted to a painting using Photoshop's Oil Paint filter.
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