Photopaint tutorial
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I already made a tutorial about Photopaint, but this one is far more simple. Some people were not able to read the animation so I added a few pictures to help. Just click on the icons to see them.
For this tutorial you will need Photoshop ( any version ). You also need to be a bit of a Photoshop artist.
You also need to know how to use : layers, pattern stamp tool , and the filter average.
If you don't know how to, please check the Photoshop Help!
1.First of all, pick a photo. It's always easier with a large picture. Crop it if you like, but from now don't resize or crop it anymore.
2. Select> All , then Edit>Define Pattern.
3.Duplicate Background layer
4.Apply Filter>Blur>Average. This will fill your layer with one color. Make a nice background for your picture. This color is the mix of all the colors of your picture. If your picture is well balanced between light and dark and colors, you'll get a gray. Usually it's a brown. Don't worry about this. You will get a background color that will most likely fit your painting.
5.Make this layer a bit transparent until you can see the photo, but not too much or it will make your work uneasy.
6.Choose the pattern stamp tool. Use your photo as the pattern.Click on the arrow near the tiny icon representing the patterns to choose your photo from the library. Click the options : aligned, and impressionist.
7. Right click, pick a nice brush. The key thing is to use a brush with scattering . You can download here a brush I find fun to work with:
8. Create a new transparent layer.
9. Paint. Begin with a large brush and paint the shapes of you photo. Faces, house, tree etc. If it a portrait, define the surface of cheeks, hair, etc. It's messy, a bit gooey, don't worry. Follow with the brush the forms of the surface (as in : if it's round, make circle movements).
10. Use a smaller brush and paint details, following them more closely. At this point, getting tired of the process, I created a new layer under my painting layer and with the tool brush (not the pattern) and I painted a background with large strokes.Then, I came back to the paint layer.
11.Continue to paint with a smaller brush. Zoom, unzoom, look at the details closely. Hair and small lines like a baby mouth are hard to catch. Click on the visibility icon of your larger to check with the original photo under it from time to time. At this point, creating a group of your layers above the photo could be a good idea.
Tip: if you are afraid of loosing effects you like, create new layers each time you make a new step in details.
12.This is far the most difficult part. You need to be able to draw a bit.
Make the underground layer with only one color 100% visible. Then create a layer on top of your painting. Getting back to the brush tool, with a fine brush and picking the colors where necessary, define light in the eyes, repaint strokes of hair (painting flesh on it and redrawing if necessary) and all the tiny details you couldn't get. It won't be perfect. It won't look exactly like the picture. But it will look like something you've made, and this is good.
The key of this tutorial is to adapt painting technique to Photopaints. I learned Academic painting when I was a young student, and I've been taught 2 very important things:
-Going from generic to details. Structure is an important thing.
-Following perspective and shape with strokes.
Then I learned this all by myself: Have fun. If I don't, it's crap.
Et voila! Happy little bushes! I hope you will enjoy this technique. Try it for some scrapbooking!
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J'ai déjà fait un tutoriel de Photopaint,
mais celui-ci est plus simple . Cliquez
sur les icônes pour voir les etapes en grand.
Pour ce tutoriel vous aurez besoin de Photoshop (n'importe quelle version fera l'affaire) Vous devez également savoir un peu dessiner dans Photoshop.
Vous devez également savoir employer : couches, l'outil de tampon de motif et le filtre flou "average".
Si vous ne savez pas, s'il vous plait consultez la notice de de Photoshop avant de m'envoyer des emails affoles !