Imitating Art

[Bill Markwick]

I'm assuming a narrow definition of art: a photo converted to a drawing, painting, etc. In the Gallery's flower thread, JTL uploaded a marvelous image of a flower made to look like a crop from an impressionist painting (it fooled me). Since Photoshop is loaded with tricks for doing this, I assume others have tried it. I'm just experimenting with this for the first time, so I don't claim much, but it might start this off.

The first one is straightforward:

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/1562/painting33ru.jpg

I just clicked on "Flourescent [sic] Chalk" in the Image Effects set in the Actions palette.

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/6260/painting49eg.jpg

Another easy one. When I clicked on Soft Posterization in the Image Effects set of Actions, this shot of leaves against the sky reminded me of the posterized images of Man Ray.

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2958/painting29xo.jpg

This one took a bit more. I removed the color with Image-Adjustments-Desaturate, and then painted it back into the flowers and butterfly with the History Brush. Replace Color added green here and there in the monochrome background, and then I clicked on Filter-Colored Pencil. If memory serves, I also used Edit-Fade Colored Pencil to reduce the effect a little. No masterpiece, but it might make a good placemat. :p


Regards,
Bill
Panasonic FZ20

[JTL]

Bill:

Thanks for the compliment! I've actually sold some of my digital manipulations.

Nice stuff you did there. It matters not whether you use cut out paper and glue, pencil and paper, paint and canvas or masks in Photoshop...you're not "imitating art"...it's all art.