Creating a fine art "painterly" effect

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crabshell
Jan 19, 2005
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Hello all,

I have a project whereby I need to turn a large photograph (ultimately 8 meters long — not a billboard but a high resolution image) into a Da Vinci Last Supper-like painting. With the 1 month timeframe I have it’s unlikely I can go over every inch/mm of the image with a brush to achieve this effect. But a filter’s effects are probably not random enough to be appealing. Ultimately this should look like a reasonable facsimile of fine art. Maybe distressed or aged a little too. This image will be printed on cement tile so it will look like a fresco with tile lines (no grout). Does anyone out there have any ideas of how this could be achieved? Which plugins, which brushes, methods, etc? I am a very proficient Photoshop user but I’m a little baffled. This has to look like I spent some serious effort on it. Any Painter pros can chime in too.

Thanks for any advice!

-crabshell

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The Pretzel
Jan 31, 2005
"crabshell" wrote in message
Hello all,

I have a project whereby I need to turn a large photograph (ultimately 8 meters long — not a billboard but a high resolution image) into a Da Vinci Last Supper-like painting. With the 1 month timeframe I have it’s unlikely I can go over every inch/mm of the image with a brush to achieve this effect. But a filter’s effects are probably not random enough to be appealing. Ultimately this should look like a reasonable facsimile of fine art. Maybe distressed or aged a little too. This image will be printed on cement tile so it will look like a fresco with tile lines (no grout). Does anyone out there have any ideas of how this could be achieved? Which plugins, which brushes, methods, etc? I am a very proficient Photoshop user but I’m a little baffled. This has to look like I spent some serious effort on it. Any Painter pros can chime in too.

Thanks for any advice!

-crabshell

Try Painter.

Pick the type of brush and paint-style you want and use "cloning".

It doesn’t need to be High-res either. 50 dpi 30, even 20 will do fine!!! 8 meters is pretty huge and nobody will look at it from 2 feet away…. I was at the Getty art museum and came close to a large mural. Kid you not the thing was no more then 12 dpi and it looked fine from about 5 feet away.

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