To Make a Coloured picture look like a coloured painting

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By John Sweeney - 16th of January 2007

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To Make a Coloured picture look like a coloured painting.

1. Open a suitable picture in Photoshop.
   
2. Make a duplicate of that picture by clicking on the top border round the picture with your right mouse button.
   
3. The duplicate copy will then be in front with the original picture behind.
   
4. Select the front picture by clicking on it, then de-saturate it, (Ctrl Shift U).
   
5. Go to Filters, on the menu bar, and find Stylise, select Find Edges and your picture will then look like a black and white drawing.
   
6. Select the original picture by clicking on it, hold down the left shift key on your keyboard and again click on the original picture, hold it and drag it into the front desaturated picture and release. By holding down the shift key when dragging it ensures that your picture goes into the centre of the front picture and you don't have to waste time trying to line the two pictures up, it's done already.
   
7. Make sure that your layers pallet is open (F7 on your keyboard) ensure that Layer 1 is selected on the layers pallet, now, look at the word normal towards the top of the layers pallet, this is in fact a scroll down menu, click on it and select Multiply.
   
8. Hey presto, your picture turns into a painting. Now it might be a little dark, well, that can be corrected to taste by lowering the opacity on the top right of the layers pallet. Now flatten the image, using the right arrow head just below the white cross on the top right hand corner of the layers pallet. Clicking on the arrowhead will show a scroll down menu.
   

Now save the image with another name and you are finished, except, of course, just close the original image.