We are going to start in the same way as we did for the Pixelate effect: matching colours. This will hide away all the effects you did without deleting them. Righ now we have the Pixelate layer displayed on top of our image. We can now move on to work on the Oil paint effect. With that done, you are all set regarding the pixelated effect. You can play and experiment with different values and see the affect in the preview display.Īt this point your photo will have a really heavy pixelated effect: You can make the pixelate effect a bit more subtle by resetting the opacity to a lower value. I prefer them to be small, so I usually select the minimum possible diameter. To do so, Click on Filter in the toolbar, go to Pixelate and click Pointillize.
This imitates the irregularities paint tends to have over canvas. To give it that painting feeling, we are going to add a bit of a pixelation. Then, in the field Source, select the image you want to copy the colours from and press OK. A screen will appear with several settings. It might sound complicated, but it is really not! Make sure you are on the Pixelated effect layer, the small image in the layer list should have a frame around it. First of all, we are going to match the colours from the painting to the photo. You can rename the layer by double clicking on its name. This step is optional, but I recommend you to do it to have it all well organised. You could see that new layer icons will apear near the bottom right corner of the screen, newer layers will be located at the top of the list. Repeat the action in order to get two layers.
To do this, you need to create two new layers in your image window.