How To Create Painted Effect In Photoshop

 
In this tutorial you’ll discover how to provide a portrait photo a painted look, so it resembles a digital painting.
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A well lit, high quality  portrait photo will work best for this tutorial.
You can download the one I’ve used here.
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Open up your photo in Photoshop, and go to Filter>Blur>Surface Blur.
The Surface Blur will allow you to blur smaller details whilst keeping the edges solid.
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Now duplicate this layer twice.
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Name one layer ‘glowing edges’, and the other ‘high pass’.
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Click on the ‘high pass’ layer first and go to Filter>Other>High Pass.
A 20 pixel Radius should work best for most photo’s.
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Change the ‘high pass’ layer’s blending mode to Overlay.
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This will have given a soft contrast to your photo.
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Now click on the ‘glowing edges’ layer and go to Filter>Stylize>Glowing Edges.
Use the settings shown in the image above, and click OK.
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Set the blending mode to Screen.
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This will add smooth edges to your photo that resemble brushstrokes.
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Duplicate the ‘glowing edges’ layer, then select both layers and right click to merge them.
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Re-apply the Screen blending mode.
Now we’ll blur this layer to soften the edges we’ve created.
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Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur, and set the Radius to 1 pixel.
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Next click on the adjustment layer button at the bottom of the layers panel, and choose Curves.
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In the Curves dialog box, choose Green from the drop-down list.
Create 3 points on the chart move the left point up a little, and the right point down slightly.
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By doing this we’ve given the shadows a green tint.
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Next add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, and bring the Saturation slider up to +25.
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Now add a new layer above all the others and call it ‘clouds’.
Go to Filter>Render>Clouds.
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Change the ‘clouds’ layer’s blending mode to Screen, and take it’s Opacity down to 8%.
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This will give the image a subtle mottled effect.
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Finally select all the layers and merge them in to one.
Apply a Gaussian Blur set to 0.5 pixels.
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