Tip #3224 - Create Your Own Masterpiece
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Create
Your Own Masterpiece
Today, I am going
to show all you nice people that it doesn’t necessarily take a lot
of work in Photoshop to make a regular picture look artistic. The skill
required for this tutorial is basic and it shouldn’t take too long
for you to accomplish what I am going to show you. The only requirement
for this tutorial, besides Photoshop, is a nice sweet picture that you
would like to digitally convert to an artistic painting. For a process
this simple, it gives rather nice results.
To start with, try
and avoid pictures that hide the important details among shadows. What
is slightly visible among shadows will simply disappear after you run
some filters on it. So, as much as you can, try to use a sunny picture
with sufficient amounts of light in it.
Go ahead and open
the picture you are going to use. I'm using a rather nice and simple picture
of this sweet looking dog.
First of all, we are
going to use the Cutout filter. Cutout gives a "paintbrush painting"
type of effect to the picture. To use Cutout, go to Filter,
Artistic, Cutout. I have used the following
setting for the Cutout filter.
The image should start
to look fairly artistic now. To give the second part of the artistic touch,
we will make the image look like it has been painted on a canvas. To give
the canvas effect, we will once again turn to the filters. For this, we
use the Texturize filter, which we can access by going to Filter,
Texture, Texturizer. I have used the
setting given below.
Ta da! You are done!
No, I'm not kidding. This really is it. This is probably the fastest way
of making your regular images a little more artistic. Of course, as I
said in the beginning, the better your image, the nicer your results.
It’s amazing the kind of results you can get by combining a couple
of these filter effects. Below is the final image that I ended up with.
Isn’t this absolutely
perfect for a Christmas card?! You can use this effect to make a personalized
digital card for someone or you can even print your own family Christmas
cards. Combine this effect with some of the glossy effects we have discussed
in the past to create your own personal fuzzy, warm and artistic masterpiece!
~ Yogesh Bakshi
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