From Real To Painted
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It takes a lot of skill to accurately paint a real life object - but if you dont have that sort of time on your hands and are looking for a quick solution your at the right place.
This tutorial will show you how to make a real-life photo look as if it has been painted.
The first step is to get a photo. You should of course use your own.
Im using the following image:
Ok now you need to Press Ctrl + U or alternatively go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. Set the Hue & Saturation to about 35. You can however change this to suit your image.
Now go to Filter > Artistic > Cutout. Then set the following:
Number of levels: 8
Edge Simplicity: 0
Edge Fidelity: 3
I now have this:
Right click on your image layer and duplicate it. Then go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and the radius to 4px. Then set the layer mode to Darken. I have the following:
Were almost done. All we need to do now is flatten the image to make it look that bit more effective. Go to Layer >> Flatten Image. Then go to Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen.
Here is my final result:
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