Help: How to make a painting look like a photo?

Hello - there are many tutorials showing how to make a photo look like a painting, but how do you do it the other way around?

I want to make a 17thc painting look like a photo (colour or grayscale - whichever is the most successful). Can anyone give me any tips, tricky, or point me to a tutorial please?

The painting I want to make look like a photo is here
http://quintolibro.googlepages.com/howtomakethislooklikeapho tograph%3F

Here's one approach.

To look like a photograph this would have to painted in realistic detail. But what is that level of detail? I looked for the original to find the size, and found to my surprise that you can get this very painting reproduced for $320. Probably you can search and get it done for less too.

http://www.masterpiece-paintings-gallery.com/titian-venus.ht m.

If you simply wish to have this gorgeous piece to hang on your wall, perhaps you can have them do the photorealism for you. In this case I would email them about your proposed project and get a quote. These kinds of companies have artist sweat shops in India, etc that make these masterpiece repros, so perhaps it can even be done by the very artist who has painted this exact painting many times. Certainly these repros are painted by highly competent artists.

If you wish to learn photorealistic painting there are many tutorials on the subject

here's a google search http://tinyurl.com/22z6wf
here's a youtube search - http://tinyurl.com/297sp4

Very interesting stuff. I wish you luck!

Thom

On Feb 3, 7:52 pm, spydersweb34 wrote:

Here's one approach.

To look like a photograph this would have to painted in realistic detail. But what is that level of detail? I looked for the original to find the size, and found to my surprise that you can get this very painting reproduced for $320.   Probably you can search and get it done for less too.

http://www.masterpiece-paintings-gallery.com/titian-venus.ht m.
If you simply wish to have this gorgeous piece to hang on your wall, perhaps you can have them do the photorealism for you.   In this case I would email them about your proposed project and get a quote.  These kinds of companies have artist sweat shops in India, etc that make these masterpiece repros, so perhaps it can even be done by the  very artist who has painted this exact painting many times.   Certainly these repros are painted by highly competent artists.

If you wish to learn photorealistic painting there are many tutorials on the subject

here's a google searchhttp://tinyurl.com/22z6wf
here's a youtube search -http://tinyurl.com/297sp4

Very interesting stuff. I wish you luck!

Thom

Many thanks Thom! Though perhaps beyond my capibilities, I'd love to try the photorealstic painting myself. I've taken a look at the tutorials and... well ... let's see... Great advice. Charles