Painting
Software : Photoshop CS2
Level : Advance

Concept: The lesson is designed using Adobe Photoshop. We have used selections, different combination of image editing tools and filters for most of the effects. Photoshop comes up with lots of the options and scope for experiment is much more than you can imagine. We wish to encourage you to use different options and tools to get better output. The lessons and techniques described need to be followed as a guideline to achieve the effect.

1. Open Photoshop. Open Image to apply painting effect.

2. Make a Duplicate of the image layer and keep it selected.

Filter > Stylize > Find Edges

3. Image > Adjustments > Desaturate (Change the layer mode to Multiply)

4. Select Bottom Layer

5. Filter > Artistic > Dry Brush

6. Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation (Drag Saturation to 50)

7. Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast

8. You can experiment with Brightness/Contrast values.