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Advanced Photoshop Tutorial - A Painting from a Photo

 

 

 

Create 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 gray tone (approximately 60% 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

 

 

 

 

Click on Filter>Artistic>Underpainting
Keep the Brush Size at 0
Set the Texture Coverage to 20
Keep the Texture as Canvas and
slide the Scaling to 100% and Relief to 4
In Light Direction choose Bottom Left
Click OK

 

 

 

Set the Current Layer to Luminosity in the Layers Palette with 75% Opacity.

 

 

Flatten the image and adjust the contrast. Click on Image>Adjustments>Selective Color and add the "final touches" to the digital painting by tweaking the colors and values.

 

Red Slider: C 50% / M 0% / Y 0% / K 0%
Yellow Slider: C 0% / M 0% / Y 0% / K 50%
Green Slider: C 50% / M 0% / Y 0% / K 0%
Cyan Slider: C 50% / M 0% / Y 0% / K 0%
Blue Slider: C 50% / M 0% / Y 0% / K 0%
Magenta Slider: C 50% / M 0% / Y 0% / K 0%
White Slider: C 50% / M 0% / Y 0% / K 0%
Neutral Slider: C 50% / M 0% / Y 0% / K 0%
Black Slider: C 50% / M 0% / Y 0% / K 0%