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Pixel Bender - Oil Painting Effect on a Black Card, Long Exposure Image.
Having some fun with an image that I took this evening. I wanted to create an image that combined both pixel bender oil painting and black card technique. The end result should be something that is close to what a typical artist would see when they are painting a scene.
How this is done is pretty simple.
Pixel Bender has a file limitation of 4096x4096 so I need to convert my images to that size. The advantages of pixel bender is that it uses XML commands to create the filter effect. This in theory can be applied to multi-frame items like video, or on Flash Content. The implications is non-destructive special effect filters that can be applied and removed from images. HTML 5 in theory can use these instructions and apply them easily to any image.
First taking the images and adjusting what I need to adjust I use Lightroom and send it to Photoshop as a smart object.
After importing it into Photoshop as a smart oject I then make a layer copy via smart object so I don't affect my original. I double click on the layer icon and it opens up ACR.
In ACR I make the following adjustments. Increase Fill Light, exposure, brightness, and vibrancy. I turn down Clarity by approximately -37.
After making those adjustments I apply the Pixel Bender filter onto the image (the plug-in is still experimental and only available at adobe labs at: labs.adobe.com/technologies/pixelbenderplugin/ ). The settings I chose are the following:
Oilpaint Mode
Stylization: 3.565
Cleanliness: 15
Colorization: 1.58
Brush Scale: 7.179
Brush Contrast: 0.175
Each of the sliders control different aspects of how this effect works, but the two key components are the Stylization slider and the Brush Contrast.
I've used this effect on another image in the past where I actually isolated the background and applied different filters and recombined them. Because of the complexity of this photography I chose not to do that.
Because this is a smart object filter I can adjust my image at any point in the RAW format so I can correct for any colour issues or other effects that I wanted. The amount of control I can have over my image is pretty infinite, however you do need a pretty powerful graphic card to process all of this live.
Inner Harbour By Numbers
Pixel Bender - Oil Painting Effect on a Black Card, Long Exposure Image.
Having some fun with an image that I took this evening. I wanted to create an image that combined both pixel bender oil painting and black card technique. The end result should be something that is close to what a typical artist would see when they are painting a scene.
How this is done is pretty simple.
Pixel Bender has a file limitation of 4096x4096 so I need to convert my images to that size. The advantages of pixel bender is that it uses XML commands to create the filter effect. This in theory can be applied to multi-frame items like video, or on Flash Content. The implications is non-destructive special effect filters that can be applied and removed from images. HTML 5 in theory can use these instructions and apply them easily to any image.
First taking the images and adjusting what I need to adjust I use Lightroom and send it to Photoshop as a smart object.
After importing it into Photoshop as a smart oject I then make a layer copy via smart object so I don't affect my original. I double click on the layer icon and it opens up ACR.
In ACR I make the following adjustments. Increase Fill Light, exposure, brightness, and vibrancy. I turn down Clarity by approximately -37.
After making those adjustments I apply the Pixel Bender filter onto the image (the plug-in is still experimental and only available at adobe labs at: labs.adobe.com/technologies/pixelbenderplugin/ ). The settings I chose are the following:
Oilpaint Mode
Stylization: 3.565
Cleanliness: 15
Colorization: 1.58
Brush Scale: 7.179
Brush Contrast: 0.175
Each of the sliders control different aspects of how this effect works, but the two key components are the Stylization slider and the Brush Contrast.
I've used this effect on another image in the past where I actually isolated the background and applied different filters and recombined them. Because of the complexity of this photography I chose not to do that.
Because this is a smart object filter I can adjust my image at any point in the RAW format so I can correct for any colour issues or other effects that I wanted. The amount of control I can have over my image is pretty infinite, however you do need a pretty powerful graphic card to process all of this live.