Abstract Painting
Turn any of your favourite photos in a realistic looking painting, perfect for abstract wallpapers and much more!

author:
  Blake
title:
  Abstract Painting
date:
  Sun 9 January 2005
category:
  Photo Manipulation
credits:
 
Abstract Painting Technique


New Document

Make a 400x400 document. You can edit>fill the background layer to Dark Grey



Add an Image

Add an image, I used a picture of Heidi Klum. Yummm....





Blending Mode

Now, right click the layer, and duplicate the layer. Then do a render>difference clouds then press ctrl+f to do this again. Preceed to change the layer's blending mode to overlay then press ctrl+shift+U to desaturate the layer, and make it greyscale. Heidi should now look like:



After you finish this, sharpen it up some, by doing filter>sharpen>sharpen and it should look like this:



Apply Filter

Now Duplicate the layer you added the clouds to, and press ctrl+i to inverse the colours. Now on the new layer, do a filter>add noise> 4% in Guasian Monochromatic.

After you have finished bluring your top layer set the layer blending mode to overlay and then click on the bottomw layer and press ctrl+shift+u (this should desaturate your layer)



Dry Brush

Now to the top layer add: filter>artistic>dry brush with these settings:





Brush Strokes

Add a filter>brush strokes> dark strokes with these settings:



This should return something like this.



Enjoy! Tell your Friends!

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