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Help and Resources for Hand-Tinting Photos

By Diana Day  ·  March 4th, 2011

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This is the online companion article for Diana Day’s “Hand-Tinting Black and White Photos” article in the March/April 2011 issue.

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Tips and Tricks

By Matt Kloskowski  ·  July 15th, 2010

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Quick painterly effects; shortcuts for resizing fonts; spot clipped highlights; delete selection points; zoom with a mouse; and remove a color cast.

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Photo Line Art Effect

By Corey Barker  ·  February 17th, 2008

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Create an unfinished painting effect from your photos.

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Illustration Effect

By Corey Barker  ·  December 7th, 2007

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Create an unfinished painting effect from your photos.

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Painting Hair With Pixels

By Pauline Washburn  ·  August 28th, 2007

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This is a companion tutorial to the “Painting with Pixels” article in Vol. 5 No. 5 of Photoshop Elements Techniques.

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Painting With Pixels

By Pauline Washburn  ·  July 5th, 2007

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Virtual painting is a fantastic (and surprisingly easy) way to take a photograph and make it look like a painting.

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Create a Painting from a Photo

By Dave Cross  ·  December 29th, 2006

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Dave shows you how to use a combination of filters to pull off a painterly image.

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Painting Effect

By Dave Cross  ·  August 11th, 2006

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Turn a photo into an oil painting.

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The ‘Brush and Blend’ Art Effect

By Larry Becker  ·  February 16th, 2006

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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.

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Making Photos Into Paintings

By Dave Huss  ·  June 1st, 2005

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Here’s a simple technique to turn your photos in paintings.

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Finishing Touches

By Dave Cross  ·  March 16th, 2005

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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.

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Rescure A Flawed Photo With Smudge Painting

By Mark Clarkson  ·  March 1st, 2005

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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.

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