While I own the Studio 2, I still use my older Topaz Impressions plug-in where all my painting filters are. Then, it’s in to Topaz Impressions to apply my “Barley Painted” filter. As painting smudges your details, you want to begin with as much detail and contrast as you possibly can. This technique opens the shadows and gives me loads of texture and detail.
I have a recipe that includes Tonal Contrast, Detail Extractor and Pro Contrast. Once I have a clean cutout, I prep the cutout for painting. Perhaps a future blog post will cover my technique for building these masks, but it probably requires a video versus a blog.
Here is the cutout, the full version of the mask and a close-up of the mask so you can see my feather details. The mask is important because I paint the detail feather tips back in on the cutout mask so that I have these feathers from the original for painting. As this is a painting blog, I’m not going to go into a lot of detail on how I do selections, but I will show you my cutout and my cutout mask. You can use whatever cutout technique you are comfortable with. The first step is obviously a cutout of the bird. I will cover these steps in the process.įirst the original image, which I captured on my trip to Africa earlier this year. I use Photoshop, but I prep my images with the Color Efex Pro ( NIK Collection) software and I run the cutout through my Topaz Impressions with some custom settings just to knock off the photo pixel effect. I’ve been exploring different techniques lately and combine both Photoshop techniques with curves and adjustment with mixer brush painting to get the final photo realistic yet painterly effect that I’m looking for. In this blog I’m going to provide a step by step review of my latest digital painting in Photoshop.
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