Creative Effects Challenge No. 205 - Painterly Image

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Creative Effects Challenge No. 205 - Painterly Image Jul 8, 2023 5:16:17 GMT pontiac1940 likes this

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This Creative Effects Challenge creates a Painterly effect that is quite attractive, I think, and so I am looking forward to seeing your lovely creations!

It is based on a video tutorial by davrodigital and can be seen here: Painterly image in Photoshop Elements

I am including written directions, but the video is especially worth watching, as you get to see him playing with the filter settings and hear why he lands on the ones he ends up using.

The settings shown in parenthesis below are the ones I used; yours will likely be different!

Duplicate your source image twice (Ctrl+J), rename the top layer “Sketch”, rename the 2nd layer “Cutout”

1. Apply a Sketch-effect to the top layer
    Select the top layer and click Filter | Sketch | Graphic Novel... | Twisted Plot
    • Click the 1:1 button to view at 100% and locate a detailed area to guide your setting choices
    • Adjust Darkness to your liking (2.3)
    • Adjust Clean Look (4)
    • Adjust Contrast (2.56)
    • Adjust Thickness (0.96)
    • Adjust Smoothness (1)
    • Click OK to accept your settings
    Change the Blend mode to Soft Light

2. Apply a Cutout-effect to the second layer
Select the second layer and click Filter | Filter Gallery... | Artistic | Cutout

    • Right-click and select 100%
    • Adjust Number of Levels (7)
    • Edge Simplicity (4)
    • Edge Fidelity (2)
    • Click OK to accept your settings

3. Add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer
Click Layer | New Adjustment Layer | Hue/Saturation…
• Adjust Saturation to your liking (40)

• Scaling: 200%
• Relief: 10

Click OK to accept your settings

Change the Blend mode to Soft Light
If the texture looks too strong you can reduce the layer Opacity

5. Add a vignette
    Click the Sketch layer to select it
    Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M)
    Drag out a rectangle that leaves a frame around the image
    Add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer
    • Invert the adjustment layer’s mask by pressing Ctrl-I
    • Move the Lightness slider up to wash out the border (80)
    • Soften the edge by blurring it:
        - Click Filter | Blur | Gaussian Blur…
        - Set the Radius to your liking (22.2)

I adjusted the resolution of the original to 120 ppi. It is worth noting that the higher the resolution the more subtle will be the effect.

End-Result	Layer Stack

(Click for full size view - image from Pixabay)

I am looking forward to seeing your Painterly Effect using this tutorial!

Last Edit: Jul 8, 2023 17:19:10 GMT by Tpgettys

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Creative Effects Challenge No. 205 - Painterly Image Jul 8, 2023 10:43:52 GMT hmca, Tpgettys, and 9 more like this

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Post by Jim on Jul 8, 2023 10:43:52 GMT

Thanks for the nice tut, Tom. This is a home right next to the Historic Colorado St. Bridge in Pasadena, CA. that I saw several years ago.

I improvised a bit on the vignette because I misunderstood his video instructions for inverting the adj. layer mask.

Lillias Moderator Posts: 5,944 Open to constructive criticism of photos: Yes	Creative Effects Challenge No. 205 - Painterly Image Jul 8, 2023 14:19:07 GMT hmca, Tpgettys, and 7 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Lillias on Jul 8, 2023 14:19:07 GMT Thanks for this tut Tom. I have enjoyed playing with it and here is my first effort. Image from Pixabay.
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Creative Effects Challenge No. 205 - Painterly Image Jul 8, 2023 17:14:03 GMT Jim likes this

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Jul 8, 2023 10:43:52 GMT Jim said:

Thanks for the nice tut, Tom. This is a home right next to the Historic Colorado St. Bridge in Pasadena, CA. that I saw several years ago.

I improvised a bit on the vignette because I misunderstood his video instructions for inverting the adj. layer mask.

I'm glad you like it Jim. You achieved a nice result, for sure! I think the intention of the vignette is to suggest that the "painter" didn't take it out the edge of the canvas, so I'm now thinking a larger vignette would be more in keeping with the painterly effect.

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Creative Effects Challenge No. 205 - Painterly Image Jul 8, 2023 17:16:36 GMT

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Jul 8, 2023 14:19:07 GMT Lillias said:

Thanks for this tut Tom. I have enjoyed playing with it and here is my first effort.
Image from Pixabay.

I'm really glad you enjoyed it; I did too! It is goes pretty much in a straight line from start to finish. Your starter image is a great choice for this effect.

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Creative Effects Challenge No. 205 - Painterly Image Jul 8, 2023 19:09:01 GMT hmca, Tpgettys, and 9 more like this

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Post by tonyw on Jul 8, 2023 19:09:01 GMT

Not sure I'd ever used that Graphic Novel filter but it is quite effective and surprised to find it in Elements and not Photoshop. Wonder when it got dropped if it was ever there?

Stuck pretty closely to the tut but got lazy at the end and used the Vignette in Guided Edit which gives a circular vignette which I did quite like for this image from files (of the Beringer winery in California)

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Post by hmca on Jul 8, 2023 20:23:11 GMT

Not happy with my first one as I thought it was too dark I did this again. This time I started by using the filters from this Photoshop Tut by Jesus Ramirez. I think it looks better.

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Creative Effects Challenge No. 205 - Painterly Image Jul 8, 2023 21:18:20 GMT hmca and Jim like this

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Jul 8, 2023 20:23:11 GMT hmca said:

Not happy with my first one as I thought it was too dark I did this again. This time I started by using the filters from this Photoshop Tut by Jesus Ramirez. I think it looks better.

I tend to agree with you Helen. Between the two I prefer your second rendition.

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Creative Effects Challenge No. 205 - Painterly Image Jul 8, 2023 23:15:44 GMT hmca, Tpgettys, and 6 more like this

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Post by tonyw on Jul 8, 2023 23:15:44 GMT

One more - this time using the tut method of creating a vignette - I also resized it before starting which I likely should have done before so that viewing at 100% reflected the pixel dimensions of the finished image.

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Creative Effects Challenge No. 205 - Painterly Image

Post by Tpgettys on Jul 8, 2023 5:16:17 GMT

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