Article DetailsTurning Photos Into Art: Painting photos with the Art History Brush |
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| Date Added: February 19, 2010 10:00:08 AM | |||
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| By William Sawalich I’m always looking for fun and easy ways to make photographs look like paintings, and I recently learned another great one. Photoshop’s Art History Brush is a variant of the History Brush, with which the previous action (from Photoshop’s history palette) is painted away. The Art History Brush adds a twist to the recreation of this history by adding artful effects as the previous history state is returned to the photo. These brushstrokes can quite effectively be used to create the look of an impressionist painting. Here’s how. — Start with an image that doesn’t rely too much on fine detail—a landscape or a close-up is often an ideal choice. Select the image (Ctrl/Command A) and copy it (Ctrl/Command C) onto a new layer. —With the original image duplicated onto a new layer, select all again and delete it, creating a now-blank layer. Why not just create the blank layer in the first place? Because for the Art History Brush to work, we need to provide it with a “history” to repaint—in this case, the duplicate of the original image on a new layer. —With the layer now blank, select the Art History brush and choose a relatively large brush diameter, maybe 300 or 500 pixels depending on the size of your image, and a Tight Curl or Tight Short brush style. Then repaint the image across the entire layer. The key for this first layer’s succes is to choose a relatively large and undetailed brush. This will form the background texture of the image, where detail isn’t needed. As we add layers to the photo, we’ll impart more and more detail.
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