Classic Art Recreation Editing Tips

How can you make your photograph look like a painting???

It all depends on the style of art that you chose, different techniques will be required for different styles/artists.  This project is all about creative problem solving, but here's a list of ideas to get you started:

• Filters - use artistic, brush stroke, pixelate, sketch and texture filters to stylize the photograph
• Use the quick select tool to select areas of your photograph - use adjustment layers to adjust hue and saturation, color balance, etc. of certain areas.  You can also do multiple layers and use the eraser tool to expose layers beneath other layers.  We will be doing the "filters project" next week as preparation for the editing for this project.
• Use the quick select tool to copy and paste parts of photographs into other photographs - be careful to make a good selection and refine the edge well
• Use the smudge tool - this smudges colors together and can look like brush strokes (nested below the "blur" tool).  
• Use the paint brush tool - pick a color from the color selection palette or use the eye dropper tool to select a certain color from your photograph.  Use a series of transparent colors to draw on the photograph
• Clone Stamp tool - this can be used to cover things up or to add colors from one part of photograph to another part

This is just a basic list of ideas - try a variety of tools out and experiment with photoshop for the best results possible.  The editing for this project will be very individualized based on the style of art you choose, and will require you to experiment with photoshop to get the best editing results for your individual project.