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Jackable
Joined: 19 Jan 2012
Posts: 2
Location: Liverpool
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 Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:28 pm Post subject: Photograph to painting |
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Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help/give me some advice. I'm working for a company in liverpool and they've asked me to manipulate some old photographs into looking like anything other than photographs (line drawings, paintings ext) anything that doesn't look like it was taken on a camera and looks older than 100 years. This was going fine but one image has really stumped me (see link) I was hoping someone could help or maybe had some advice for me, I'm just out of university and this is one of my first freelance jobs so any help would be amazing!
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9292/railwayindia.jpg
Thank you! |
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jerryb4417
Joined: 20 Dec 2008
Posts: 710
Location: Oklahoma
PS Version: photoshop cs5
OS: win7 pro 64 bit, i7-3.2g, GTS 450,
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hi,
many times you just have to experiment...
that what i have been doing with your image....
what i did... was use a combination of color pencile, and adjustment layers...
oh i forgot to mention... the reason for the b/w layer was to eliminate color and the reason for the brightness and contrast was to bring out lines and shadow.s
i have attached image of what i did and it also shows my layer pallet...
sort of line art although i should have cropped the image to get rid of that white frame.. smiling...
also don't forget there a ton of tutorials out there for converting photo to ... line art, drawing, different style of painting... and there even freeware plugin for a lot of this stuff that makes things easier... anyway.. |
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Jackable
Joined: 19 Jan 2012
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Location: Liverpool
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Thats great! Thank you Jerry! |
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jerryb4417
Joined: 20 Dec 2008
Posts: 710
Location: Oklahoma
PS Version: photoshop cs5
OS: win7 pro 64 bit, i7-3.2g, GTS 450,
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hi,
your quite welcome.....
and goodluck on your new career.... |
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thehermit
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
Posts: 3987
Location: Cheltenham, UK
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| Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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Nice effect jerry 
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jerryb4417
Joined: 20 Dec 2008
Posts: 710
Location: Oklahoma
PS Version: photoshop cs5
OS: win7 pro 64 bit, i7-3.2g, GTS 450,
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hi thehermit,
thankyou.... took me a while to think about the look he wanted and then experiment alittle with diffeent effects and settings.... |
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iloveprint
Joined: 12 Jan 2012
Posts: 34
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Experimentation is the key. There are so many options in Photoshop that are often unused. Get in and get your hands dirty. The undo option is amazingly helpful to let you experiment. Some thoughts might be adding some blur and noise to the image, or rather noise and then blur which could give you a charcoal sketch feel. Play with the different layers that you can add over top to see how the effects change what you see. Maybe a texture to give it the look of paper or canvas. |
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