Oil Painting with an Enhanced Hand-Drawn Effect

The author of this tutorial is T. Skaarup. He shares his experience:

"AKVIS ArtWork can be used to generate excellent Oil Painting Renderings of photographs. One potential problems is the detail and scale of an image which is so accurately rendered in a painting. The fidelity of the final painting’s dimensions to the original images dimensions can cause the casual viewer to accurately determine that the processed image is computer generated.

In this tutorial I will show you one method to make the final rendered image look more like a hand-drawn image. This is done by purposefully (and intelligently) distorting the size and details of the original image using the Smudge Tool."

Original image Result

 

Follow these instructions:

Compare with the original:

Result without Smudge Tool using
Result with Smudge Tool using

Click on either image to see a larger version in a new window

 

Another example:

Original image
Original image

Pre-processing of the image in Adobe Photoshop:

Photocopy layer to identify edges
Photocopy layer to identify edges
Smudged image
Smudged image

Result of photo-to-painting conversion in AKVIS ArtWork:

Painting of Original
Painting of Original
Painting of Smudged
Painting of Smudged

 

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