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      Ross Macintosh
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      Most Excellent!

      Do you have the paper texture in a format you can share?

      Regards, Ross

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        Pixero
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        Its a small jpg. Here you go. Open in PS and Edit define pattern then use the paint bucket with the pattern on a new layer and set blend mode to. Linear burn. Try scaling it up to 200-400% for "bigger bumps".
        Not always 100% opacity for that layer. Experiment. But dont stop at just using a paper texture. Look at paintings and try different PS brushes. There are some great for spatter and such.


        papperA.jpg

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          majid
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          here r other .hope u njoy


          CLASSICW copy.jpg


          COLDROLL copy.jpg

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            canoek
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            Pixero - wow! that is really impressive. could you post your method please πŸ˜„

            Ross - i like your work. i followed your thread awhile back, when you were experimenting with different techniques with the vespa. looks really good.

            regards,

            jb

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              PKast
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              Pixero,
              Very good. You're watercolor and Ross' earlier one in the post are very impressive results from just plain jpegs. If you would be so kind as to share your technique that would be great.

              Best,
              PKast

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                mirjman
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                here's my shot at it, with line overlay and a "find edges" layer on the poster layer. its not coming out as soft as some of the other posts here, maybe its because of the lines


                su.jpg


                wc.jpg


                crop.jpg

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                  mirjman
                  last edited by

                  here's another try with lightened up linework


                  gbcrop.jpg

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                    Ross Macintosh
                    last edited by

                    Cool! 😎

                    I really like that last one! Looks great!

                    Regards, Ross

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                      canoek
                      last edited by

                      mirjman - i really like the last one too. really cool look. post more.

                      jb

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                        boofredlay
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                        Very nice... as was said, the last one πŸ‘

                        http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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                          Pixero
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                          @unknownuser said:

                          Pixero - wow! that is really impressive. could you post your method please

                          My method isn't a "one click" solution. I use very different settings depending on the image but the basics is:
                          First color correct the image to brighten and saturate it a bit to make it look more like a painting colorwise. Then I usually use surface blur filter to get rid of some detail. (I Make most changes on a copy of the latest layer to be able to paint back detail with a layermask if needed.)
                          Then I apply some filters on the surface blurred layer. It can be water color, drybrush or paint daubs or poster edges depending on image. I then mix between different effects with layer masks and also applies the paper texture above. Usually scaled up 200-300%. I Also use bits and pieces from real watercolor painings to get the typical watercolor looks like blooms. Then I Use some photoshop brushes for some spatter effects to get those tiny human mistakes that help selling it as a painting.
                          Collageing and filtering in Photoshop is the best we can do until Moxi is ready: http://visgraph.cse.ust.hk/MoXi/ 😲

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                            sk.lion
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                            @majid said:

                            and here is the PR render of the first subject . i did it not too tight , the floor bump is too heavy , and the TV & vase & plants R not good at all ... btw here it is

                            Nice, i like the lighting in this picture, it looks so realistic. Thanks for uploading these pictures.

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                              majid
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                              thanks SK LION

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                                mirjman
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                                another post per request, this time on a photo i found online. i also included the layer stack at the end. remember majid's rules- this is a "one touch" solution with no human judgements in the process.

                                one note is that photoshop filters act according to absolute pixels in an image, that means you will get different results with bigger or smaller base photos, so try to resize them at the beginning to get consistent results. this image was originally 1800x before i cropped it so you could see the detail

                                for this I used photoshop cs3 and a free plugin called carravaggio by xero

                                1. copy background layer, apply filters in this order: surface blur to get rid of brick texture detail, gaussian blur, colored pencil set layer to "multiply" mode 90% opacity

                                2. copy the water puddles layer, apply find edges filter, set to "multiply" mode 50% opacity

                                3. copy the background, apply suface blur and caravaggio filters

                                4. make a new layer, apply render>clouds filter, apply render>fibers filter and scale in the horizontal direction ~200%, add a layer mask and apply render>clouds filter to the layer mask. set to "overlay" 25% opacity

                                5. create paper layer per pixero's directions above (thanks!!!) set layer to "multiply" mode

                                6. copy paper layer, set to "soft light" mode 75% opacity

                                after that you can adjust contrast/saturation to fit your taste, but the previous steps get to you to a good point in about 10 seconds. I'd be interested to see if anyone else has success with this method...


                                version_photo.jpg


                                version_wc copy copy.jpg


                                layerstack.jpg

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                                  majid
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                                  thanx so much , i'll try it , BTW i have ps 8 !! .

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                                    majid
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                                    hi dear all
                                    thanks to mirjman .
                                    i tried your method , fixed bugs ( over hi contrast pics) and improved it . i tried it over pictures and also Pure SU output , good result , try this action ( full PS 😎 no more outer filers . (remover rb extention , load from action panel in PS)


                                    dwc-o-f.atn.rb

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                                      mirjman
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                                      i just ran your action straight through on the same photo see attached. it has a nice texture

                                      i am going to study your action some more, but one thing you can try is setting the "paper brightness" on the color pencil filter very high


                                      majidaction.jpg

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                                        sintra
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                                        Hi,

                                        Maybe this is me being a little dumb, but i dont have much experience with photoshop. 😳

                                        Could someone please tell me exactly where i need to extract the file to and exactly how it works, maybe a quick step by step.

                                        Kind regards

                                        Darren

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                                          mirjman
                                          last edited by

                                          sintra: the step by step method πŸ˜ƒ

                                          1. download majid's file to your computer, and rename the file to remove the ".rb" at the end

                                          2. open photoshop, go to window>actions to bring up your actions palette

                                          3. drag the .atn file that you downloaded onto this palette, the action will now show up on your list

                                          4. open a target image, then highlight the action. push the triangle "play" button and its all automated after that

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                                            sintra
                                            last edited by

                                            Thanks for that buddy, works great πŸ˜„

                                            Darren

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