Hello everyone!
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to make this Oil Painting Effect in photoshop.
After following this tutorial, you will create your own Oil Painting Effect PSD file.
And by using this file, you will be able to re-apply the same effect on any new image with A SINGLE CLICK!
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Step 1. Create the Effect.
Let's start by creating a New Document.
Set width to 3000px, Height to 2000px, with 300 Resolution, and RGB Color Mode, then click Create.
Now go to File> Place Embedded to import your image.
Just select the image you want and click on Place.
Resize your image to as you want, then press ENTER.
Now I want to remove these areas to avoid any problems in step 3.
I will do so by pressing CTRL+A to make a full canvas selection.
And with the layer selected, go and create a mask from here.
Finally right-click the layer and Convert it to a Smart Object.
After that, If you press CTRL+ T, you will find that your new smart object has the same document dimensions like that!
Now select your layer, then go to Image> Adjustments> and choose "Shadows & Highlights"
As you can see here, by moving the Shadows slider, all highlights areas will be brighter.
And also, by moving the Highlights slider, all highlights areas will get darker.
I only need to increase Shadows to 25 and Highlights to 5, then click OK.
Now Select your layer and let's apply the Oil Paint filter from here.
Change it to 7, 5, 7, and 5
Also make sure that Lighting is checked, Change Angle to anything you want, and set Shine to 0.3
And here is the result! Click OK to submit and let's continue!
Now go to Filter> Sharpen> and activate the "Smart Sharpen" filter.
Change Amount to 100, Radius to 10, Reduce Noise to 100, and "Remove" to Lens Blur.
This will sharpen your image and boost the overall details, with reducing the noise to its minimum value.
Now let's go to Filter> Blur> Surface Blur.
Change Amount to 20px, with 10 Threshold.
And this will make your effect smoother by wiping away some skin details.
Finally, go to the Filter Gallery
And inside the "Brush Strokes" folder, choose the "Accented Edges" filter.
Change it to 1, 28, and 1.
This will accentuates the edges of your image with some glowing lines.
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Let's select our layer again, then go to Filter> Noise > "Add Noise" filter
Change Amount to 1, And click OK.
Then go to Filter> Other> And choose "High Pass"
Change it to 2Px and click OK
Double-click on the High Pass filter's little icon to open its blending options.
Change blending mode to Overlay and click OK.
I always use the High Pass filter with overlay to sharpen the details of my effects.
Finally, let's go to the Filter Gallery again.
Inside the Texture folder, choose the Texturizer filter.
Change Texture type to Sandstone, Scaling to 50% and Relief to 3, then click OK.
This will add something like paper texture to your final effect.
And here is the Before & After! Now let's move on to the next step.
Step 2. Add Tone & Adjustment layers.
First, let's delete this "Background" layer with the DELETE key.
Duplicate your layer with CTRL+J
And Right-click the smart filters and choose "Clear Smart Filters" to remove them.
Double-click your effect layer's name to rename it to "Effect".
And duplicate the top layer again with CTRL+J.
Rename one of them "Before", and drag it to the bottom.
and rename the other layer "Tone", and leave it on the top.
And with the "Tone" layer selected, go to Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur.
Change Radius to 10 Px, then click OK.
Create an Invert layer, and a Black& White layer.
And with the top layer selected, hold the SHIFT key, and select the 3 layers.
Press CTRL+G to group them.
Rename it "Tone - Opacity".
And finally change the group blending mode to Overlay.
Just control this tone by decreasing the group opacity like that.
For this particular image, 25% gives me a good result!
And here is the result!
Finally, you can create some adjustment layers and leave them to adjust them whenever your want.
Now let's move on to the final step.
Step 3. Update the Effect with a Single Click.
First, let's save this project as a PSD file from here for any future use.
Now I want to update this existing image without repeating all previous steps!
Just double-click on the smart object's thumbnail to open it.
Once you're inside the smart object, go and import your new image from here.
Resize it as you want then press ENTER.
Now press CTRL+S.
Get back to your main document.
And here we go! let's see how to configure it for a better result.
I forgot to mention that if you want to get a dark skin tone, you can hide this "Invert" layer, then control the tone by changing the group Opacity like that.
Of course it depends on your choice!
Also, you can play with the adjustment layers to get a better result of your effect.
That's it for today!
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