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 AliveColors, or an image editor of your choice with the command File -> Open.
  
  Original image
• Step 2. In AliveColors, call the AKVIS plug-in by going to the Effects menu and choosing Effects –> 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:
  
  Oil painting with canvas

  The picture painted on canvas looks more expressive.

• Step 4. Finally, author decided to add a frame:
  
  Framed painting

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

  
  Miniature with Bird (click to enlarge)

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