[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.

[Sumaleth]

If you've been on the forum for months you should know about the Discussion forum.

(Moved to Discussion)

[jezelf]

one very quick way of changing a photo to a 'painting' is using the watercolour filter in Photoshop

filter ---> artistic ----> watercolour

I should add, that to the trained eye (i.e. probably every one here!) this can be spotted a mile away.

I think Painter has some painterly effects too which give a fairly convincing impressionist effect.

good luck with your assignment.

[hans_e]

this is me doing things the hard way... but to make it very real looking I would redo the picture, tracing it all in a vector-based program and then exportingto PS

cheers

hans_e