Lynda.com – Transforming a Photo into a Painting with Photoshop




Lynda.com – Transforming a Photo into a Painting with Photoshop
Language: English | 4 hours | 960×540 | MOV | 15.00fps | AAC – 96Kbps | 1.96 GB
Genre: eLearning

Learn to think like a painter in Transforming a Photo into a Painting with Photoshop and render images from photographs that look like they were created with oils or acrylics, using the latest digital artist’s tools. Author and artist John Derry introduces the process of interpreting a photograph into a painted work of art. He begins by explaining his system of visual vocabularies, which describe how to replace the elements of an image with expressive painterly qualities, and also shares the custom brush sets and actions he uses to achieve these results in Photoshop. The course also covers working with filters, layers, effects, and more to add further detail and texture. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:

    Understanding that resolution is in the brush strokes
    Understanding the subject
    Removing lens distortions
    Using the traditional paint color swatch set
    Making shadow and highlight adjustments
    Simplifying details with filters and Smart Blur
    Cloning layers
    Using custom actions
    Working with canvas texture
    Creating physical surface texture effects


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