[axioms]

I'm new to the board itself, but ive been surfing it for the past year or so now and just never really had any art talent of my own to bother posting something, but I wanted to do a project on digital art for my english assignment.

It deals with faking art, such as taking a picture and doing a ''paintover''. Over the past year or so Ive seen many of these events happen on this board.

I guess what I am asking is, is their a filter that does it, an action that you download or is it a pain staking process of blurring a photo and whatnot... perhaps someone could explain it to me and tell me where I could find tools that do this so I can include it in my report.... and Im going to do a test and see if anyone can do it, *me* or if you have to be a super duper digital art monkey . Well thanks and hopefully i get ''some'' replies.

If you want me to post the picture that Im going to try and ''paintover'' I can, justneed to hook up the scanner.

[Ian Jones]

Well it can be done in many ways. From my understanding of it, the term refers to a proccess where you use the photo and trace the shapes and pick colors from it then paint them in the areas they belong. So in photoshop you would just put the photo on the bottom layer, make a new layer and start reconstructing it from there.

You could sorta do it with some filters, like a mixture of effects, maybe the dust and scratches filter (which sort of simplifies areas of colour into larger shapes, to remove dust and scratches and small details), with threshold at 0 and adjust radius to taste (probably a higher number like 11). Also maybe the brush strokes filters... etc.

Hope that helps.

[Dan]

the underpainting and water colour filters work too

[Vhy]

Painter has alot of diferent materials that it can simulate, and you can set an image up as a "clone source" which means your brush strokes in the new image use the colors from the origional image.

A filter would be less convincing, but might still look good.