Hey, this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. So I was playing around with Photoshop Ai
and discovered a few things that I wanted to tell you about. The main thing I wanted to
show you is how to make your photos into the look of paintings whether it's oil paintings
or watercolor paintings, but before we do that, I wanted to show you something really quick. I
chose this photo because the light is coming in from one side. If we take the rectangular
Marquee tool and drag over the lighthouse. In generative fill, I'll type in Eiffel Tower
and I can click generate or press Enter or Return. They do the same thing. It'll basically replicate
the style of the photo. Now, this almost looks like a...I'm not sure if it's a photo frankly or
if it's a painting. It's interesting whatever it is. Look how it lights the Eiffel Tower...and it
replicates the light! You can see the sky behind it. It creates new rocks to hide the base. I mean
it's amazing! It even puts a little character like sitting...or no...no it's a bird actually
on a rock! Yeah, so any of these would really work well, but I just wanted...it just blows my mind!
Keep in mind that Adobe uses only their images from their Adobe stock library. There are millions
of photos so there's no copyright infringement. I just wanted to let you know about that. Let me
get rid of this generative fill layer...and what I wanted to do is show you how you can
make this into a painting. Now, if I select the entire photo and type in oil painting...press
Enter or Return...it's going to come out with just a bunch of colorful paint strokes
so this obviously doesn't work. So let me get rid of that by pressing the Delete key.
If I go into Channels, make a new channel by clicking the Add Channel icon,
and click the foreground color, I find that 30 or 40 percent for brightness works the best.
To fill the Alpha 1 channel with the foreground color, press Alt or Option + Delete.
Ctrl or Cmd-click the Alpha 1 channel to select its tone. This message will appear letting us know
that because we have less than 50 percent gray selected, it won't be visible, but it'll still
be there. Just click OK. Click the RGB thumbnail to activate all the channels. Open back the layers
panel and now we'll type into the generative fill, "oil painting". I'll press Enter or Return
and we'll see the results and again it'll come up with three choices and
we can generate more as many as we want. Very, very cool! Let's generate more.
This almost has a Cezanne feel to it... the colors and the shapes. Wow! Beautiful! All right. There's
a trick where you can add texture to the brush strokes and I'll show you how to do that. We'll
make a composite snapshot by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E or Cmd + Shift + Option + E on
a Mac. We'll remove all the color (desaturate it) by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + U.
We'll go into Image, Adjustments, and Shadows/Highlights. This
mainly brings out the details and the Shadows. I'll reduce it a little bit,
but I'll increase the highlights... I'll darken it I should say a little bit. I'll open the channels
panel and control or command click the RGB Channel which selects all the tones of our image
I'll open back the layers panel and invert the selection by pressing Ctrl or command shift I
then I'll press the Delete key which deletes the image inside the selection then I'll deselect it
by pressing Ctrl or Cmd +D. I'll reduce the Fill to zero which makes this layer invisible but it'll
retain all the layer style effects that we add to it. Double-click the layer to open the layer
style window click Bevel and Emboss. You can pause the video so you can copy these settings.
Then, click OK. We'll add a canvas texture to it but before we do,
we'll make a composite snapshot by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Shift + E and then convert it into a Smart
Object to modify it non-destructively. We'll go into Filter and Filter Gallery.
I'll close the Artistic folder and I'll open the Texture folder. Click Texturizer and pick "Canvas"
for the texture, a100% for the scaling, make the Relief: 2 and the light is from the top left.
We have our oil painting! This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!