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.

Project 7: Classic Art Recreation

Classic Art Recreation with Photography

For this project, you will be recreating famous classic pieces of art through photography.  Obviously, it will not be an exact replica of the paintings, but try your best to pose your model, arrange a still life, and/or recreate as many elements from the painting as possible.  You will then edit the photograph in Photoshop (by using adjustment layers, filters, and more) to make it look as similar to the original as possible.  

Pick one artist or art movement, and recreate a minimum of three of their paintings utilizing photographs and Photoshop

Here are some art movements to begin your search:

• Expressionism
• Impressionism
• Post-Impressionism
• Cubism (you could do a cubist photomontage to recreate the paintings)
• Pointalism
• Surrealism
• Art Nouveau
• Roccoco
• Baroque

You can also search by artist, here’s a list of a few artists:

• Van Gogh
• Monet
• Manet
• Renoir
• Degas
• Picasso
• Dali
• Rubens
• Seraut
• Boucher
• Vermeer
• DaVinci

Of course, these are very small lists, feel free to search for “art movements,” “styles of art,” “painters” or “artists” to find more ideas.

Be creative and have fun with this project!  It is a challenging project that requires lots of trial and error with editing.  

This project is due: Wednesday, 5/1

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Project 6: Cubist Photomontage

Your assignment is to create a series of three photomontages that have a common theme.  The photographs must be edited to create a cubist style photomontage.

A photomontage is like a collage that involves joining two or more photographs to create a composite image. 

Cubism is an art movement that was lead by Picasso. In this style of art, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in a way that shows multiple viewpoints of the same object. 

You will need at least 3 angles of each of your subjects to create the 3 photomontages.

 You will deconstruct and put your image back together using the rectangular marquee tool on Photoshop/Photopea. 

Theme Ideas (These are just ideas - you can definitely pick something not on this list too):

- Flowers
- Architecture
- Portraits
- Nature
- Beach
- Macro