Elfdaughter opened this issue on Aug 28, 2011 · 10 posts
Elfdaughter posted Sun, 28 August 2011 at 12:40 PM
OK, I'm at a loss. I've been trying to find some good tutorials that will help me learn how to paint over photos and renders to get a painted look, for portraits in particular.
There are a load of artists over at DA that do this method, but it seems not one of them has produced a tutorial. To give you an idea of the sort of things I want to do, take a look at the gallery of this artist: http://elenadudina.deviantart.com/
Lucie posted Wed, 31 August 2011 at 10:52 PM
You know I feel bad a bit that you didn't get any answer. I looked around to see if I could find tutorials for this, but all I've found was tutorials for painting portraits from scratch, none for painting over a photo really... I'll keep my eyes open for that though and if ever I stumble upon something I'll be sure to let you know.
Avros posted Thu, 01 September 2011 at 8:35 AM
Have a look over at YouTube for Tutvids tutorials, he has quite a few that should give you some help in this area.
First one you should look at is the "Add Dramatic Color to Photographs" video.
Hope this helps you in getting an idea on how you can get the results you are after.
mjmdvm posted Thu, 01 September 2011 at 7:36 PM
You might want to check out www.photoshopessentials.com. In the "Photo Effects" section, they have some tuts on transforming photos into watercolor and oil paintings. Maybe there's some hints for you there.
Also check out the 3D Total website. They have several ebooks there on digital painting techniques, specifically the "Elements" series.
Hope this helps. :-)
thundering1 posted Fri, 02 September 2011 at 10:26 AM
Go to the bookstore and get yourself a copy of ImagineFX Magazine.
Then get a subscription ;-)
Good luck and happy painting!
-Lew
Sveva posted Tue, 11 October 2011 at 9:10 AM
There is a tutorial in my shop for this, and depending on how much or how little you do, and how you apply it this look is possible.
retrocity posted Wed, 12 October 2011 at 7:42 PM
i've seen some articles for this for "painter" but i'm not sure you can translate that to PS...
i'll see if i can post a link
BBS
retrocity
bonestructure posted Thu, 20 October 2011 at 12:35 PM
If you want it to look like a painting, an action or filter won't do it. Has to be done by hand. It's easier with a tablet, but it can be done by mouse. It is, however, very tedious. Basically, you open up the photo or collage or whatever, and you treat it like a paint by numbers thing. You click on foreground color then click on an area of color in the photo, and paint just that area that color. You then pick another area, and do this with every shade of color in the image. As far as blending the colors together where different shades mix, you can use the blur tool or, more effectively, the smudge tool, but you have to be very tender using the smudge tool, It's easy to get carried away.
Yes, Painter is better than Photoshop for painting. I use both plus photopaint. But I know mnany folks who use onlly photoshop to paint.
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Sveva posted Thu, 20 October 2011 at 12:44 PM
yep you have to do it by hand, filters will only do so much, I dont use them except in certain circumstances. If I am painting over a photo I make a new layer and paint what I want on it, using it as a guide, or adding to it and blending it together. I use the same method for renders, and there is a ton of stuff in my gallery in this style, and other styles, and some are just renders or photos...I work in many different mediums.
glenncarter84 posted Sun, 04 December 2011 at 11:50 AM
Agree that by hand is the way forward, but you can use filters as a starting point. I don't use this technique so much now, but how I used to approach this is to use a few filters to get close to the painterly look and then start painting over. I tended to use a lot of smudges to get the effect I wanted too.