Tutorial: AKVIS ArtWork

Miniature Painting

The author of this tutorial is Nancy Knadler.

A unique quality of this tutorial, is that the image used was not a photograph, but a color drawing, which was transformed into an oil painting. With AKVIS ArtWork you can experiment with various styles and achieve an amazing result!

Follow these steps:

• Step 1. Open an image in Adobe Photoshop, or an image editor of your choice with the command File -> Open.
  
  Original image
• Step 2. In Photoshop, call the AKVIS plug-in by going to the Filter menu and choosing Filter –> AKVIS –> ArtWork. The image opens up in the ArtWork window.

Use Oil style and after experimenting set the following parameters:

Simplicity = 9;
Stroke Curvature = 100;
Max Stroke Length = 85;
Stroke Thickness = 20;
Stroke Intensity = 8;
Stroke Density = 90;
Microdetails = 49;
Saturation = 29;
Relief = 50.

Press to process the image.


Oil painting
• Step 3. The author writes, that she was happy with the look of the image but decided to add a texture. Click on the Canvas tab and choose a texture using the following parameters:

  Scale = 100;
  Reflection checked;
  Brightness = 30;
  Embossment = 25;
  Reveal Texture = 30;
  Distortion = 0.

Press to process the image. The picture painted on canvas looks more expressive:


Oil painting with canvas

Press to apply the changes and go back to Photoshop.

• Step 4. Finally, author decided to add a frame by going to Filter menu again and calling up another AKVIS plugin AKVIS ArtSuite: Filter -> AKVIS -> ArtSuite.
  
  Framed painting

  In ArtSuite, click the Frames drop down menu, choose the Classic Frame style and choose a textured frame that matches the color scheme of image with the following parameters:

  Frame Width = 24%;
  Texture Brightness = 100%;
  Checked Scale Image to Frame;
  Checked Average Brightness.

  Run the process , apply the frame and go back to Photoshop where you can save a new improved image.

  
  Miniature with Bird (click to enlarge)