hi and welcome I'd like to take you
through the new particle shop and
introduce you to some of my favorite
brushes inspired by some of the master
painters you're going to find that your
images are going to take on a very
painterly quality which is something
that I look for uh when I'm enhancing
photos you can basic basically take your
photos from something like
this to something very painterly and
beautiful uh in terms of brush stroke
texture and you're just going to love
what you
find and what develops in your work
let's go ahead and get started to open
particle shop we're going to go up to
the filter option down to painter and
choose particle shop
I'd like to take you through some of the
brushes that I use to create my painting
from and um I we're going to start with
a brush called uh for the trees and
creating some depth within the painting
and the brush is called pastel skies and
this is one of my favorite brushes in
this selection um you can use this brush
basically to
uh create depth in your painting uh if
there are only certain parts of the
image you want to reduce uh and push
back into the distance in terms of
perspective uh then this is a good one
but we're going to start off by uh
simply going over these
areas uh very very
lightly uh and softening the look and
you'll notice as I do this um the pixels
relatively in terms of
pixels they flare out and create a very
soft almost a pastel look uh as if you
had taken a pastel and gone over um the
image with it and it's just a beautiful
beautiful
effect every area can be touched
uh and you can see that I'm just doing
this very very
lightly to create this very soft
feathery pastel look to the trees in
some areas I may keep the uh tops of the
trees a little more pronounced a little
more
detail and very very softly go into
to the background of the image and even
at this point you can tell that this
background is softened it's pushed back
in the distance and this brush may be
just what you need uh to create that
effect it breaks up the pixels to the
point where some beautiful beautiful
texture is are rendered within each
brush
stroke
the next brush we're going to take a
look at is called the dispersion brush
and we're going to use that to slightly
go over the sun area and to disperse it
out uh within this particular area it's
softens it somewhat but also breaks up
the P pixels and I love the effect that
uh this this gives this part of the
painting I also like to go into the tops
of the tree trees and disperse the tops
of the trees out just to add a little
more
texture and uh painterly quality to uh
the effect
um when I first started uh working with
this brush it almost reminded me of a
flock of birds taking off in the morning
and flying across the meadow it was a
beautiful effect uh to
achieve the next brush I'm choosing is
the renoa brush and I'm using that to
slowly and deliberately go over the
foreground of the painting and again
what this does is breaks up the pixels
adds some extra texture and uh gives
again that painterly quality uh into the
piece and again I can be uh very
specific on where I want to apply
this and break up certain areas in the
painting I can also uh reset the brush
to default at any time continue to
achieve a very painterly quality in the
piece the next brush we're using here is
called cream and it is a very very uh
wonderful soft flowing type of brush
that will give a very very uh um almost
acrylic or oil type effect to your brush
strokes and again the idea here would be
to work through the painting uh and
develop and remove the look of
photographic pixels and replace them
with the look of more painterly brush
strokes and as we work through the piece
we can
easily apply those brush Strokes
wherever we so
choose to maintain the feeling of depth
and distance in the piece we're going to
move to another brush called the um
paint splatter brush and this is a fun
brush that you can use to add
uh basically paint splatters or the look
of uh and to incorporate additional
color into the piece we're going to
sample color here and also bring up our
color wheel and we can do that by using
the shortcut c key which will um open
the color palette and a new Option here
is that we can actually pin our color
set um our color panel to the interface
and uh it's it's quite nice because we
can move it wherever we need it and then
close it when we're not using it the
glow option for these brushes is located
also on the color
panel let's go ahead and Sample using
the dropper key and the shortcut I and
pick up this nice uh green value in the
back and then going back to the b key
I'm going to use that just to bring in
that look of uh thrown paint into the
piece and I can also
uh bring the brush size down a little
bit and I'm going to go back to
my color palette
here and just continue to pull in a
little bit of this texture towards the
back of the painting and I love just how
this comes in let's go ahead and add the
look of maybe some dry DED flowers uh in
the foreground area here and for that
we'll bring the brush size up a little
bit by choosing the brush size
option and just pull in a little bit
more and I think I'm actually going to
go a little smaller on the brush size uh
Control Alt or command alt on your
keyboard will resize your brush on the
Fly and we'll go back to the c key and
go to almost a pure white here and see
what we get and we'll go a little bit
larger on
that and bring in just that little
appearance of texture in the
foreground maybe the look of
um the look of dried
flowers and that's working out really
really
pretty the other brush that you can use
to create texture in the foreground or
the even the look of uh dried flowers is
a brush called fairy dust and it's
another one that uh you can
apply strategically in your piece to
create uh additional
texture finally I'm going to go to an uh
another new brush called Fine
detail and I'm going to select that and
we're going to
um go ahead and sample some of the
colors that we see in these foreground
trees and I'm going to bring up my color
palette and darken that value just a bit
and we'll go ahead and pin that palette
now so we can uh have it open on screen
and I'm going to go into these trees and
just paint
a few more uh maybe the feeling of
additional Tree
Trunks and organic looking tree
shapes within the
U the
background if you don't like a brush
stroke if uh you feel you need to remove
that you can certain do that by do
selecting the undo option on the
property bar or the shortcut command
Z I'm going to sample this darker value
here go back to my brush tool
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and just finish adding a
few looks of trees coming
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through I'll sample
again this nice green
value it's kind of a gold green and
we'll take it up a
notch and we'll just pull in a little
bit
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of highlight in this foreground area as
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well we'll take the renois brush
brush and break that up just a little
bit to give
it again that feeling
of painterly
quality and I'll take my dispersion
brush one more time and maybe break up
this area a little bit
further and we'll end up with something
like this let's pull a few more brush
Strokes into this area
here and I really like what what's going
on
here