Tham khảo tài liệu 'professional information technology-programming book part 50', công nghệ thông tin, kỹ thuật lập trình phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | . Converting Photos to Paintings There are as many ways to turn a photograph into something that looks more like a painting as there are little round O s in a truckload of Cheerios. So I m not going to cram a book of those techniques into this chapter. However I will tell you that like most everything else in this chapter you should start with a layer that is a consolidation of all the other layers you ve created up until now Cmd Ctrl-Opt Alt-E remember . Since it s a fair likelihood that you ll want to somehow blend or merge your painting with your photo it s also not a bad idea to make a copy of that merged layer. Although I ve just told you that there are more ways to make a painting from a photo than grains of sand in Death Valley that applies to the individual techniques. There are only two main methodical categories natural media brushes and Photoshop-compatible plug-ins. Both of these categories are available from inside Photoshop and both are available in far more sophisticated versions from competitive or third-party vendors of both independent software and Photoshop plug-ins. Of course you can also mix natural media brushes and filters which may be the most efficient way to produce something that actually looks like a painting. . Using Plug-in Filters Plug-in filters are the most accessible way to make a painting from a photograph. In fact it s possible to do a fairly credible job by simply running any of a number of filters on a copy of that merged layer. Since the only way to find out which of these will work best for the image you have in mind is experimentation there s no point in even going in to all the possibilities. Figure 11-15 shows you an image before and after filtering with the Photoshop Colored Pencil filter. Figure 11-15. The figure on the right definitely looks more like a painting or drawing than a photograph but would only momentarily fool most into thinking it wasn t some sort of digital trick. The biggest problem with single
