Making your own art may take a little time, but it is SO worth it!! Shoot a photograph, put it through its paces in Photoshop, and you've got art!!!
Steps
Method 1
Method 1 of 2:
Making Your Outline
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Process your image. You may want to clean it up and add to the colors a bit. Add vibrance and contrast. This will help with your results.
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Make sure your image is an 8-bit image. One of the filters used requires it. You can, if you like, not use the filter.Advertisement
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After making sure it is 8-bit and saving your image, open up the new image that you have created.
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Duplicate your background layer.
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Invert the duplicate layer Ctrl I .
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Set the blend mode of the duplicate layer to Linear Dodge.
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Convert the layer to a Smart Object.
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Add a Gaussian Blur, Filter >> Blur >> Gaussian Blur... Slide the slider until the lines begin to show up. That is what you want. Since this layer is a Smart Object, you will be able to adjust it later, if necessary.
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Add a Curves Adjustment Layer and make the adjustment as seen in the screenshot.
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Adjust the Gaussian Blur if you want to make things clearer.
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Add a Threshold Adjustment Layer. This will make the image, black and white only. Move the slider over, probably to the right, to make things more clear.
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If necessary, adjust the Gaussian Blur again. After this point, it is locked in.
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Make a stamp of your work so far Ctrl Alt ⇧ Shift E
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Convert your stamped layer to a Smart Object.
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Go to Filter >> Filter Cutout >>> Artistic >>> Cutout. If you can get it to work, you will be adjusting the simplicity and the edge. Since it's already black and white, you don't need to adjust the first slider, Number of Levels. This is simplifying the black and white, so if you can't get that filter to work, you will probably be fine.
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If your image is a little gray, use a Curves Adjustment Layer to get your grays to be black and your whites white.
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If your image is still slightly gray, use a Levels Adjustment layer to make the white, white again.Advertisement
Method 2
Method 2 of 2:
Painting the Image
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Copy your original background image. Move that copy to below the outline that you have created.
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Click on the outline layer and change the Blend mode to one that works with your image. Multiply and Overlay are some good ones to try.
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Go back to your background layer copy.
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Select the Art History Brush. If it doesn't want to work, go into your History Panel and take a snapshot. Then use that snapshot as a source for your Art History Brush.
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Try setting it at a fairly large size. 2 or 300 pixels is a good size to begin with. If your image is 'smallish', then use a smaller one. Your intent is to make your image fairly unrecognizable. Paint all over the layer and your subject until it is hard to discern an image.
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Start reducing the size of the brush and continue painting on your image. As the brush gets smaller and smaller, start focusing more and more on the parts of the image that you want to catch the eye. For instance, in this image, the front window, side window, and the mirror.
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Do this until it looks like you want it to look. Every time you do it, it will look different. That is the beauty of the Art History Brush and its various components.
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If you have removed a part of the image, as in this example, you might want to add your own background. This one was done by adding a Solid Color Adjustment Layer and then using a mask to shape it.Advertisement
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Tips
- If you think that you might like to try this again, try making an action out of it.Thanks
- If during your work, you created a selection of your subject. Save the selection. You might find yourself needing it later.Thanks
- If you make your background using a mask, and you aren't sure that it is completely 'clean', put some garish color underneath the layer with a mask and see if any spot stands out.Thanks
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