Artistic processing of photographs. Stylization - what is it? Stylization in art

Another great program for painting stylization. I have previously written about filters for Photoshop: , . Dynamic Auto-Painter processes the photo for much longer and uses more complex algorithms for this. She's wonderful stylizes as painting by turning photographs into paintings for. Almost always after treatment Dynamic Auto-Painter I have to edit the file in Photoshop. The program “stylizes” very much. This is especially true for portraits. This program is best used for artistic background blur in portraits. Then in Photoshop using layers you can apply a blurred one using Dynamic Auto-Painter background and portrait. With experience, artistic taste and an average level of Photoshop, very beautiful paintings are obtained.

What the program looks like Dynamic Auto-Painter So:

The program is visually divided into 3 parts: styling settings, “desktop” and information panel. The most important thing is the settings panel.

At the very top of the panel you can select the painting style for styling. For some reason, the styles are not made in the form of a list. It seems to me that it would be more convenient.

Let's try process for painting some kind of landscape.

The result is:

Style used Aquarell. I think the result is very good and original. No Photoshop filter can paint such a picture.

To create such a picture, I left the standard program settings:

I am lazy to describe them in detail and it will take a lot of time. There are a lot of settings here. Some are clear and obvious. I don't use others =). And the article is already too long. Let's press start!

01. The program will take a long time to think about.

02. Meaning Dynamic Auto-Painter is that she is trying to imitate drawing. First, the background (canvas) is sketched with a wide brush.

03. Then it goes setting transparency. Depending on the settings, the photo shows through under the background.

It's cleverly called the Dry Reveal Brush.

04. Then the drawing of the picture begins fine brush. This process is endless. You can leave the program overnight and it will draw and draw. Such an “artist” is on the verge of self-sacrifice for the sake of art. It’s best not to leave it overnight and try to “catch” the processing of the desired quality and click Stop.

IMHO, when painted with a very small brush, the picture becomes too “dirty”. Result after 5 minutes of waiting:

In the program Dynamic Auto-Painter The processing for painting portraits was very interesting. I will write about this in the next part. Let's finish the article with examples of processing this landscape in other painting styles using Dynamic Auto-Painter.

Today we will talk about artistic filters in Photoshop. With the help of these filters, it is possible to stylize it as a painting (oil, pastel, pencil), imitate surfaces and structures. With these filters, you can create works of art from your photos.

A filter is a tool for changing an image. This can be blurring, sharpening, stylization, enhancing relief, changing color range and much more.

You can find all filters in the “Filter” tab, which is located at the top. When you click on this tab, a menu appears in front of us.

Watercolor (Watercolor). The effect of a watercolor painting.

Simulates a drawing watercolor paints. But not very good. By using a couple of tricks you can achieve wonderful results. Do two copy the photo using Ctrl + J, then select the “Watercolor” filter.

We see the settings

• Brush Size.
• Brush Detail. Determines how accurately details will be saved.
• Texture. Determines the severity of paper texture.

Adjust the settings to taste. On the left we see the texture, on the right we see the result.

Marine watercolor/luceluceluce

Change the blending mode of the first layer toScreen(Lightening or Screen), and the second onMultiply(Multiplication). Add masks to both layers. Keep pressed Alt key to create a black mask. Using a brush white and a watercolor brush, versions of which you can find on the Internet, paint using masks. This way you will simulate typical color transitions. Photoshop spent preliminary work and prepared a sketch. Using brushes and texture you can get the effect you want.

Colored Pencil. Simulates a drawing with a colored pencil.

The Colored Pencil filter uses the current background color as the color of the paper on which the drawing will be created. That is, even before applying the filter, you need to make a small decision. The colors of the photo will turn into the colors of the pencils. The color of the paper will be visible between the pencil strokes.

• Pencil Width. Adjusts the thickness of strokes.
• Stroke Width. Simulates strong or weak pressure on a pencil.
• Paper Brightness.

Because small details are rarely well worked out, it is better to work with large photographs. With a one-time use of a filter it is difficult to obtain good result. Therefore, I recommend making several copies of the image, applying different settings on different copies and using layer masks to draw those areas that best suit this part of the photo. The texture of the paper makes the image look more realistic. IN in this case the texture is in a layer above all other layers and I used the layer blend modeMultiply(Multiplication) with little transparency.

sexy woman/stryjek

Smudge Stick. The effect of a smooth, soft image.

The filter softens the image by adding diagonal strokes, with the light areas becoming brighter and losing detail. This filter uses the colors of the photo to simulate feathering. In this case, you can set the stroke length, which naturally affects details and sharpness/blur. You can change the brightness of different areas of the image and the brightness intensity.

• Highlight Area.
• Intensity.

Since the content of the image does not change, it is possible to create a “photo-realistic” picture. To do this, make two copies of the original and go to the filter. On the bottom layer set stroke length, brightness zone and intensity at 0. On the top layer - stroke length - 10, brightness zone - 10 and intensity - 3. Change the blending mode of this layer to Overlay (Overlay) and set the Opacity to 50%.

This way you will ensure that the strokes are not too uniform. Of course, it is important to choose the right motive here. Fantastic collages are more suitable here than, for example, a portrait.

The Temple/Zuboff

Cutout (Applique). Turns a photo into an applique made of colored paper.

The filter combines similar colors and imitates an applique of glued pieces of paper. The number of levels determines the number of colors in the collage. Simplifying the edge - how exactly and evenly the pieces of paper were cut. Edge precision only responds when the abstraction level is not set to 0. The lower the scale value Edge Simplicity And more value scales Edge Fidelity, the less distortion. Image brightness does not change

• No of Levels determines the number of color levels
• Edge Simplicity.
• Edge Fidelity.

That is, using this filter you can achieve an illustration effect. To determine the content of an image, even simple contour. Here too it is very important to choose the right image. Here it also makes sense to use different layer blending modes, for example, Overlay.

Green forest with fog / andreiuc88

• Brush Size.
• Texture. Adjusts the sharpness of edges.

Saint Mary Magdalene / zatletic

The result of applying this filter is a drawing that is very reminiscent of the dry brush technique (drawing a large number paints with a small amount of water).

• Brush Size.
• Brush Detail. Determines how many parts to save.
• Texture. Adjusts the severity of the paper texture.

Here you can apply a filter with settings brush size - 1, brush details - 10, texture - 2. The photo is already starting to look like a painting. Make a copy of the layer and apply the filter again with the settings brush size - 10, brush details - 10, texture - 1 and change the layer opacity to 50%. The texture of the paper can improve the effect.

Mediterrane Impression / pk200258

Using this filter gives the effect of a pastel drawing. At the top of the dialog box, you can set the stroke length and level of detail. In the lower part, the properties of the material on which the pattern is applied, the size of the texture, relief and direction of light are determined.

• Stroke Length.
• Stroke Detail. Determines how strong the strokes will be.
• Texture. Allows you to select a texture: brick, burlap, canvas, sandstone.
• Scaling.
• Relief.

The settings depend on the motive. After setting the filter, you should use a mask to remove (or partially remove) the effect of the filter on some parts of the image.

meditation/pepe

On contrasting photographs it gives enough interesting effect. Grain scale(Grain) controls the grain size,Highlight Area (Lighting) - the percentage of lightened areas, and Intensity (Intensity) - exposure (illumination).

• Grain. The amount of grain in the image.
• Highlight Area. Increases the brightness of the final image.
• Intensity. Adjusts brightness and sets the intensity of bright areas.

Make two copies of the photo and apply it to top layer filter with settings grain - 8, brightness zone - 14, intensity - 2. Change the blending mode of the top layer toMultiply(Multiplication), and the layer below it onScreen. This will give you a high-contrast shot with grain.

Fine art image / konradbak

• Highlight strength. Determines how strong the polyethylene glare will be.
• Detail. Contour detail level.
• Smoothness. Smooth highlights.

Fashion Couple Dramatic / Gabi Moisa

• Stroke Length.
• Texture Coverage
• Texture.
• Scaling.
• Relief.
• Light. Allows you to select which side the terrain will be illuminated from.

In this case I took the canvas texture scale 50% And relief height - 5. Light - bottom right, stroke length 0 to get the outline. Here's the result:

Grand Cru Rotwein / Wilm Ihlenfeld

Allows you to simulate technology oil painting, performed with a special tool such as a wide knife (spatula or palette knife). The image takes on a distinctly rough form.

• Stroke Size. Adjusts the stroke size along the edges of the path.
• Stroke Detail.
• Softness. Smoothes the photo.

Unfortunately the filter only affects small areas of color. Color transitions are not affected. This can be fixed by selecting a suitable texture and applying it with a blending modeMultiply(Multiplication). Then merge the layers (original and texture) and make two copies. Apply a filter with settings to the top layer stroke size - 50, stroke detail - 3, softness - 0. Set the layer opacity to 80% and change the blending mode of the top layer toScreen(lightening).

dutch mills 3/dzain

Neon Glow. Creates a neon glow along the contours of the object in the photo.

Turns the image into a monochrome negative and adds a light stroke, or “glow,” along the outline of objects.

• Glow Size
• Glow Brightness

Feuerwehrschlauch / 77SimonGruber

Gives the photo the appearance of an oil painting.

• Brush Size. A parameter already familiar to us.
• Sharpness.

A filter with settings is applied here brush size - 25 and sharpness - 20. Brush type - wide and medium hard. A texture with a blending mode is applied on topMultiply(Multiplication) and transparency 25%. Then a copy of the layer was made and the blending mode was selectedSoftlight
(Soft light) and transparency 50%

rotes Italien / Grischa Georgiew

Sponge (Sponge). The effect of an image applied with a sponge.

• Brush Size.
• Definition.
• Smoothness.

Lüneburger Heide / Thorsten Schier

Poster Edges. Enhances the contours of the photo.

• Edge thickness.
• Edge intensity.
• Poserization.

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Hello everyone, site participants! More recently, a popular treatment called oil has appeared. Its essence is that the photograph ends up looking like a painting. oil paints. Now I will teach you how to do this, for those who don’t know yet.

So here's our source:

This photo was taken with kit. I used to have 6d + 24-105, but in the end I sold it and bought a 60 ten with a whale. In the studio with such a kit, the source codes are obtained excellent quality, especially if they are then processed efficiently.

Let's start:

1. Open the source in Photoshop CS6. ATTENTION! This “oil paint” filter is only available in Photoshop CS6. You can, of course, install it separately in more early versions, I haven’t done this myself, if you know how, write in the comments. They also write that this filter is available in Adobe Photoshop CC.
2. Open the “plastic” filter and adjust the shape. Often at the model perfect figure, but a slightly wrong angle does not convey it adequately. For such cases there is a wonderful plastic filter. The main thing, of course, is not to overdo it and not change the girl so much that her own friends won’t recognize it. Of course, it’s better to shoot right away so that no filter is needed. If you can do that, then great =)
3. We eliminate skin defects. Pimples, scars, cuts, all this can be easily corrected with standard Photoshop tools, such as the healing brush. The tool works very simply. You need to set the size of the brush - slightly larger than a pimple or scar. Hold ALT on your keyboard and select an area of ​​the skin where everything is smooth and there are no defects. Release and smoothly move over the area you want to correct.
4. Now we need to make the skin even smoother. Download and install, if you have not already done so, the “portterura” filter.

This filter is very easy to use. First, duplicate the layer. Open the portrait filter. Adjust the strength of the applied effect.

Then select the eyedropper, click on the darkest area of ​​the skin and save. Then we apply it again and click on the lightest area of ​​the skin and save it too.

We leave the effect only on the skin itself. We also wash it from our hair and underwear. It is important for us to maintain the sharpness of some details.

7. After you have finished correcting skin defects, you need to improve the volume. To do this, you need to work with light and shadows on the model’s skin using dodge and burn technology.

Now you need to create 2 layers with curves. 1 curve will be called “light”, the other “shadow”. You need to lift one curve up and the other down. And the mask of each curve must be converted to black so that the effect is not visible.

And we draw volume using layers of shadow and light. The technology is very simple. Where there are shadows, we draw with a brush along the “shadow” curve. Thus, the shadows become even darker. Where the light is according to the curve with the light. The technology is simple, but the most important thing is to do everything carefully and not to overdo it, otherwise it won’t turn out natural. Everything should be in moderation. This is actually the hardest thing about this lesson and at the same time the simplest. You just need to practice and then everything will turn out well.

When you process your hair, you can increase the transparency of the brush to make the effect stronger.

Create a curve like this with a new layer:

Create a gradient with these colors:

And create a layer with exposure, adjusting the “gamma correction” parameter:

As a result, we got this result:

10. Now the fun begins. Why was all this done? Apply the “oil paint” filter:

Set the filter settings:

And we apply it.

I completely forgot to say. Before this, all layers must be drained. Duplicate the resulting layer. Now I will explain why. This filter smears so much that important details are lost. For example, eyes, nose, lips. To prevent this from happening, it is necessary to apply this filter and leave a layer where the filter was not used or was used but with more gentle settings. Thus, if you use an eraser tool with a transparency of 50% or less to remove along the top layer, you can restore details that were lost when applying a filter.

Here's an example:

So don't forget to make layers so that you can go back a step.

The top of the body was warmer than the bottom and I eventually balanced them out.

12. After which I decided to increase the sharpness of the entire picture. I duplicated the layer and applied the color contrast filter:

There I set the parameters:

I set the layer mode to “overlay” for the resulting layer:

This method made the picture sharper. Then I duplicated this layer with sharpness 2 more times. But this is a matter of taste. You can do it 1 or 2 times and that’s enough. You can also adjust the layers with sharpness based on the transparency of the layer. Experiment in general as you feel most comfortable.

That's basically all =)

14. I would also like to clarify one thing important detail, which I understood over time.

This photo was taken with an 18 megapixel camera. If you reduce the photo to at least 12 megapixels before applying the oil paint filter, then the filter is applied with even greater force. In this way, a stronger painting effect can be achieved.

Applying a filter to a photo 3000 pixels wide:

Applying a filter to a 1500 pixel photo:

As you can see, the fewer pixels, the stronger the effect.

That's all, I hope the lesson will be useful for you and you have discovered something new. Good luck!

P.S. If you don’t understand something, write in the comments, I will gradually correct and supplement the lesson.

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