Photosop Tutorial - Oil Painting Effect

1. Introduction

1.1 There are many techniques that can be used to produce an oil painting effect. This is my interpretation of one technique that I belive is suited to railway landscapes.

1.2 In producing this effect I have tried to apply it subtly, but the technique lends itself readily for making it as abstratc as you wish it to be.

2. The Effect

2.1 Click here to see the original image and click on the original image to return to this page.

2.2 Click here to see the effect and click on the effect to return to this page.

2.3 Click here to return to the main Photoshop page.

3. Keystrokes

3.1 File>Open – Navigate to the folder holding the image to be processed and open it.

3.2 Check that the default colours in the toolbox are set for black and white as the foreground and background respectively.

3.3 Copy the ‘background’ layer and rename it ‘saturation’.

3.4 Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation - Move the saturation slider to a value of +60 and click OK.

3.5 Copy the 'saturation' layer and rename it 'glass distortion'.

3.6 Flter>Distort>Glass - Move the distortion slider to a value of 4, move the smoothness slider to a value of 8, select canvas from the Texture drop window and move the scaling slider to 78%. Click OK.

3.7 Copy the 'glass distortion' layer and rename it 'paint daubs'.

3.8 Filter>Artistic>Paint Daubs - Move the brush size slider to a value of 3, move the sharpness slider to a value of 3, select simple from the Brush Type drop window. Click OK.

3.9 Copy the 'paint daubs' layer and rename it 'angled strokes'.

3.10 Filter>Brush Strokes>Angled Strokes - Move the direction balance slider to a value of 47, move the stroke length slider to a value of 3, move the sharpness value slider to a value of 1. Click OK.

3.11 Copy the 'angled strokes' layer and rename it 'texturizer'.

3.12 Filter>Texture>Texturizer> - Select canvas from the texture drop window, move the sclae slider to a value of 64%, move the relief slider to a value of 2, select top from the light drop window. Click OK.

3.13 Copy the 'texturizer' layer and rename it 'desaturate & emboss'.

3.14 Image>Adjustments>Desaturate - Change the belending mode to 'overlay'.

3.15 Filter>Stylize>Emboss - Input 15 degrees as the angle, move the height slider to a value of 1 pixel, move the amount slider to a value of 500%. Click OK.

3.16 Set the layer opacity to 35%.

3.17 File>Save As - Navigate to the desired folder and save the image.

4. Comments

4.1 The beauty of saving each 'part effect' as an individual layer is that you can view the contribution that each 'part effect' makes by initialling switching out all the layers and switching each one individually back in .

4.2 Once the effect has been achieved, why not start again and insert your preferred slider setting values to obtain the effect that best suits your taste.

 

 

File>Save As - Navigate to the deired folder and save the image.