Turn Photos into Painting - Artistic Oil Paint Effect in Photoshop [Tutorial + Action Included]

In this photoshop photo effects tutorial, learn how to change any photos into smooth artistic oil painting effect in photoshop.
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Create Smooth Artistic Oil Paint Effect in Photoshop.

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Open up your chosen image in Photoshop.

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First we need to drastically sharpen the photo, it will help to create detailed brush strokes.

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duplicate the background layer twice.

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Select upper most layer and add a High Pass effect.

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Amount of radius around 5-10px is all that’s required.

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Change the blending mode to Soft Light.

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Merge both layers.

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Now again repeat the same previous step.

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Now add unsharp mask to the layer to drastically sharpen the edges.

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Keep amount:60, Radius:2.6px and Threshold:0.

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Then head to Filter - Stylize - Diffuse.

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Change the Diffuse mode to Anisotropic.

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This is the key ingredient to give the image that cool brushed appearance.

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Now Again repeat first step.

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If you look closely at your artwork,

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you may notice some ugly seaming where the diffusing repeats.

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We use little technique to fix this.

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Go to Image - Image Rotation - 90° CW.

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Again repeat the first one.


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Select Surface Blur from the Filter - Blur menu.

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Adjust the values to around 6px Radius and 10 Threshold.

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Apply Diffuse filter to give swirly details on the skin which gives the image a painted effect.

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Rotate the image by 90° again, and repeat first step.

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apply another Diffuse filter.

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Repeat this step for a third time then rotate the image for a final time to place it the right way up.

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Rename layer "Oil Paint".

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Duplicate oil paint layer.

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Select oil paint layer and add smart blur.

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and adjust the values to around 3px Radius and 42 Threshold.

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Fine tune these values so only the large flat areas are affected.

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Finally apply cutout filter.

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use Levels: 4, Simplicity: 4 and Fidelity: 2.

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Select oil paint copy layer and change blending to soft light.

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and adjust opacity to your preference.

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Add faded look with curves adjustment.

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Adjust brightness and contrast.

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That's it.

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Let's see how this photoshop action works.

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Firstly download and install the action in your photoshop.

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Open image, then click the play button to run the action.

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Adjust brightness/contrast and cutout filter setting as you wish.

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