Advanced Photoshop Tutorial - Impressionist Photoshop Painting

 

To create an impressionistic effect in a photo, we have to emphasize texture and color at expense of detail. Our aim is to create a photo-art painting in the style of Claude Monet. The image has a file size of 3.9 megapixels.

Save a copy of the original photo in the clipboard (Select All and Copy).

 

 

 

 

Make a duplicate layer by clicking Command-J (or drag the background to the New Layer Icon)

 

 

 

Set the foreground color in the toolbar to a light gray tone (approximately 20% black) and the background color to white.

 

Click on Filter>Sketch>Chalk and Charcoal
Slide the Charcoal Area ruler to 6
Slide the Chalk Area ruler to 20
Slide the Stroke Pressure ruler to 1

 

 

 

 

Click on Filter>Brush Strokes>Spatter
Set Spray Radius to 10 and Smoothness to 5. Click OK

 

 

 

 

Change the Current Layer to Luminosity in the Layers Palette and flatten the image

 

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