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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 341916" data-attributes="member: 9240">Playing with painterly effects this morning.&nbsp; I was speaking to another artist at the gallery where I have work hanging and she was telling me about a project she has to do a pop art interpretation of a portrait.&nbsp; The interesting thing is that she cannot paint from site, but she needs to first literally visualize her painting as a photograph, and then paint the photo.&nbsp; She was telling me that to do what she wants to do will take her nearly as long in Photoshop (which she's not in any way proficient with) as it will painting, so I told her I'd see if I could find some tutorials to help her along.OK, so now you have the backstory to what I'm posting today.&nbsp; I got around to a couple more images taken prior in the week and as I finished the image this is what I had...[ATTACH=full]105945[/ATTACH]... very structured and HDR-ish (which I'm not really thrilled with and may revisit).&nbsp; I then started playing with some techniques for getting a flatter, painterly look to it using only Lightroom's Noise Reduction and Sharpening.&nbsp; I ramped up the noise reduction to 100, brought the detail down to 0.&nbsp; Then I cranked the sharpening up to around 100, which crisped up the lines particularly on the grating.[ATTACH=full]105946[/ATTACH]Not something I love, but I'll be damned if it doesn't look like it could be a painting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 341916, member: 9240"] Playing with [I]painterly[/I] effects this morning. I was speaking to another artist at the gallery where I have work hanging and she was telling me about a project she has to do a pop art interpretation of a portrait. The interesting thing is that she cannot paint from site, but she needs to first literally visualize her painting as a photograph, and then paint the photo. She was telling me that to do what she wants to do will take her nearly as long in Photoshop (which she's not in any way proficient with) as it will painting, so I told her I'd see if I could find some tutorials to help her along. OK, so now you have the backstory to what I'm posting today. I got around to a couple more images taken prior in the week and as I finished the image this is what I had... [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]105945._xfImport[/ATTACH] ... very structured and HDR-ish (which I'm not [I]really[/I] thrilled with and may revisit). I then started playing with some techniques for getting a flatter, painterly look to it using only Lightroom's Noise Reduction and Sharpening. I ramped up the noise reduction to 100, brought the detail down to 0. Then I cranked the sharpening up to around 100, which crisped up the lines particularly on the grating. [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]105946._xfImport[/ATTACH] Not something I love, but I'll be damned if it doesn't look like it could be a painting. [/QUOTE]

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