Hello everyone!
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to make this Smudge Painting Effect in photoshop.
After following this tutorial, you will create your own Smudge Painting Effect PSD file.
And you can reuse that file 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, and Height to 2500Px
With 300 Resolution and RGB color mode. then click Create.
Now go to File> Place Embedded to import your image.
Resize your image to fill the canvas then press ENTER.
Now Press CTRL+A to select the whole image.
And with your layer selected, make a mask out of your selection from here.
Right-click your layer and choose Convert to Smart Object.
Name it "Before" and delete the "Background" layer with the DELETE key.
If you press CTRL+T, you'll see that we removed the areas outside the canvas like that.
And this will make the smart object have the same dimension as the document itself.
Now select your layer then press CTRL+J to duplicate it.
Name the layer as you want.
And with your layer selected, go to Filter> Sharpen> and choose Unsharp Mask.
Change Amount to 150, Radius to 3, and threshold to 0. then click OK.
This will sharpen your image a little bit.
Now let's apply the oil paint filter.
Change it to 5, 3, 0.1, and 0, and uncheck Lighting.
then click OK.
Applying the oil paint filter on a sharp image usually gives a better result!
Now go to Filter> Noise> and apply the "Reduce Noise" Filter.
Set Strength to 10 and keep all other values 0, then click OK.
This will wipe the details that result from the oil paint filter and make the skin smoother.
to make it smoother, Let's apply the Surface Blur filter.
Change Radius to 15, and Threshold to 7. then click OK.
As you can see, both "Reduce Noise" & "Surface Blur" filters will make the skin look like as it is digitally painted.
Now let's apply the Unsharp Mask filter again.
But this time change Amount to 40 and Radius to 15, with 0 Threshold.
This will increase the Contrast of your overall image details like that.
Click OK. and let's apply the Oil Paint filter again.
Keep values as before then click OK.
Also, let's reapply the Reduce Noise filter.
leave values as they are and click OK.
Finally, let's apply the Smart sharpen filter to sharpen the final image details.
Change Amount to 100, with 3Px Radius and 0 Noise Reduction. then click OK.
And this is the final result.
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Now let's get back to our tutorial!
Step 2. Add Glow & Tones
First select the "Before" layer, then press CTRL+J to duplicate it.
Drag that duplicated layer to the top like that.
And with your layer selected, go and apply the Gaussian Blur filter from here.
Change Radius to 5Px then click OK.
With your layer selected, create an invert layer.
Click on this icon to clip mask it to the layer only.
Also create a Hue&Saturation layer. and clip mask it.
Reduce the saturation all the way down to -100.
And Finally, select your layer and change its blending mode to "Overlay"
This will fake a HDR Tone to your final effect like that.
And you can control it by changing the layer opacity like that.
Name it "HDR Tone"
Then hold the ALT key and click and drag the layer to the top to duplicate it like that.
Name that duplicated layer "Smudge Tone".
Then change its blending mode to Multiply.
You can also control that tone using the opacity slider like that.
Finally, let's select the "Main Effect" layer and duplicate it with CTRL+J.
Name that duplicated layer "Glow"
and with your layer selected, go and open the Filter Gallery filter.
Under the Distort folder, choose the "Diffuse Glow" Filter.
Change it to 0, 3, and 18.
This will increase the glow in the brightest areas in your image.
Click OK and let's move on.
Collapse that layer and let's control it by changing the Opacity like that.
You can Select the Glow layer, then hold the SHIFT key, and select the top layer to select all 3 layers.
Press CTRL+G to group them, and name that group "Change Opacity".
These are the effect controllers, you can control your effect by changing the opacity of each layer of them.
Now let's move on to the final step.
Step 3. Adjustments & Updating the Effect with a Single-Click
Let's start by selecting our top layer.
Then create a Vibrance layer with +20 Vibrance and +5 Saturation.
Also create a levels layer.
Change it to 10, 1.05, and 240.
And Finally, create a color balance layer.
Start adjusting each tone slightly like that.
Now let's see the final result!
That's Great!
Now let's apply the same effect on any new image with a Single-click!
Just double-click on any smart object thumbnail to open it.
hide the layer inside it. then go and import any new image.
Now press CTRL+S to update the smart objects.
Get back to your main document.
and start changing the opacities of each layer until you have a good result.
And this is the final result! you can save this project as a PSD file for any future use.
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