Turning a photograph into a painting!

There are many ways to do this. One way is to just paint right over the print of the photograph. That requires a lot of time and some painting skills. When using this technique I recommend using lager prints to paint. This is kind of like paint by numbers. You can paint your image in any style you like. Painting over a color print or a black and white. Using a black and white print you could just paint parts of the image for a selective hand colored print.

Another way is to use Photoshop® They have some pretty cool built in filters that can turn your photograph into a painting. Photoshop® is a very powerful tool to have. I think it is the standard for photographers. You can create great works of art using Photoshop®. You could take one of your photos and turn it into the painting style of Georges Seurat or how about Salvador Dali and many more Artist and painters using Photoshop®. Check out the author Steve Caplin his book from Focal Press called Art & design in Photoshop he has a whole chapter about this. The whole book is great for how- to and will inspire you in a new way to transform your photographs into art.

Lets look at Corel Painter Essential. I have used this for many years to turn certain photographs into painting. It actually came with my old Wacom Bamboo Fun Tablet that I still use. I need a new one. If its not broke why replace it. Lets get back to Corel Painter Essential 4 its kind of outdated but still works for me. It have different types of brushes,pens,wet and dry mediums. Different painters preset styles from water color to oil painting. Corel Painter Essential 4 also has a auto start button so you don’t have to even make one brush stoke it will do it for you. I prefer to be more creative and do it by hand. If drawing is more of your style. You can use this to draw also. If you needed help with using Corel Painter Essential 4. The cool thing it came with how- to videos.

There is probably many more different other apps to turn your photographs into a painting. I just never used them.

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