I just wanted to throw this out here in case the community finds this useful (I sure did). Plus, I want to see the cool things you guys might come up with if you do use it. ![]() ![]() As some may already know, Photoshop CS6 has a cool new Oil Painting filter built into it. When I saw this as one of the new features I was both excited and bummed (because my CS5 doesn't have it! And I usually don't upgrade an application unless I'm jumping up a couple versions.). I figured it would be a great additional tool for creating Civ graphics -- especially those wonder scenes and such. While searching around for tutorials on how to achieve the same effect manually, I came across this cool plug-in by Adobe Labs: Pixel Bender! This is what the new CS6 Oil Painting filter is based off of (I guess it was popular plug-in effect). The New Oil Paint Filter. Photoshop CS6 comes with a new filter based on the Pixel Bender plugin, which allows for anything from soft to dramatic oil painting like effects. This video takes a detailed look at the options in the filter. Original image courtesy of Flickr User. The Oilpaint effect that ships with the free Pixel Bender plugin for Photoshop CS5 allows users to transform their photographs into images with the visual appearance of oil paintings. With a few simple sliders, users can adjust the amount of stylization, brush-size, brush-scale and other parameters. Oil Paintings in Have you ever wanted to learn how to create hand-painted works of art quickly? If so, you may have played with the Photoshop filters. They typically do not net great results. So, you either learned the art of painting in Photoshop or another program, which is anything but quick or you gave up. Judging: If you have, you can once again pick up the skill, which really takes almost no skill. And start turning your portraits into beautiful oil paintings in seconds. The best part, you do not have to pay any additional money, as it is a called Pixel Bender. This freebie actually does a lot more than just oil paintings. Some of the tools seem more useful than others. The FISHEYE filter looks promising and I always have had fun with Kaleidoscope filters too. Pata negra blues de la frontera rar file. Now back to this tutorial. Go ahead and Once downloaded, you will install it. Make sure Photoshop is closed until it is installed. Then, you will open up a photo. Go under FILTER – PIXEL BENDER – PIXEL BENDER GALLERY. Next, you will drop down to the OIL PAINT choice. And start playing with settings. Ideally you want to blend the pixels so that it looks natural and smoothed. Manipulate until you get the desired effect. Here is my starting image (courtesy of ) Then I used these settings, which took 5-10 seconds: And created this: I liked the smooth, less brush stroked look. But you could play around. You could also edit further in Photoshop, which I did not do above.
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