photo to painting
interpolator
soemthing i've been playing with (very quickly, just a few minutes work a pop, so it's quite rough) : naturally quite painterly photos taken a step further
an example (sorry about the big image, but i wanted to offset it to show the crop)
EDIT - down the page
there's no hard and fast process - but it's a mix of varying bits of contrast, unsharp mask, lighting effects, a *touch of texturiser, on different layers all merged and sharpened and copied and merged again - no PSD file to show as such
anyway, have a go, it's fun. Like i say, you really need convincing source to start with or it's gonna just look like filters. Hence the crop on the above image - no-one ever paints stuff like more grass than they need to.
an example (sorry about the big image, but i wanted to offset it to show the crop)
EDIT - down the page
there's no hard and fast process - but it's a mix of varying bits of contrast, unsharp mask, lighting effects, a *touch of texturiser, on different layers all merged and sharpened and copied and merged again - no PSD file to show as such
anyway, have a go, it's fun. Like i say, you really need convincing source to start with or it's gonna just look like filters. Hence the crop on the above image - no-one ever paints stuff like more grass than they need to.
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As for the grass thing... for compositional purposes people paint more grass than they "need" to all the time.
Looks cool, but... maybe it's just me, but the original feels more painted to me.
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thats actually quite a compliment
the point about cropping is that it's easier for the painter (or photoshop marquee wielder) to set the correct composition than it is for the photographer, at least in my case. To my eye, if a painter chose to scrub all that grass in they would've been making a mistake
What's your goal in this? Good photography can be appreciated and so can good painting, so why try to make a photo look like a painting?
I think its good how you got rid of the graininess in the photo, but I think you need to go a lot farther in getting rid of tiny details and replacing them with a kind of broad brush stroke feel.
per128 - do you ever get the feeling you simply haven't been punched squarely in the face enough?
edited - got rid of some artifacts. for FUN
but- do keep going with the experimentation, you're not supposed to get it perfect first time
edit: you might want to play with overlaying the first as a saturation layer etc because the colours are really nice and get lost a little with the adjusted versions
rooster - erk. I have a horrible feeling it may have been saturated up a touch inside flickr itself. Been working off different source i think ...