This is the online companion article for Diana Day’s “Hand-Tinting Black and White Photos” article in the March/April 2011 issue.
Articles tagged with painting techniques
Quick painterly effects; shortcuts for resizing fonts; spot clipped highlights; delete selection points; zoom with a mouse; and remove a color cast.
This is a companion tutorial to the “Painting with Pixels” article in Vol. 5 No. 5 of Photoshop Elements Techniques.
Virtual painting is a fantastic (and surprisingly easy) way to take a photograph and make it look like a painting.
Dave shows you how to use a combination of filters to pull off a painterly image.
Photoshop Elements allows you lots of different ways to convert any photograph into a natural looking art image that looks as if it were painted. Simply applying a filter or two from the filter gallery can give you all kinds of impressive artistic images from a digital photo. This technique produces results you can’t get from simply applying an artistic filter.
See some examples of the finishing touches you can add to your favorite photos, including softening the focus, burning in the edges and an advanced painted in technique.
Smudge painting is one of my favorite techniques, using Photoshop Elements to turn a photo, even a blurry, noisy, or badly lit photo into a lovely digital painting.












