Photoshop Create hand-painted pet portrait photo

Meow and doggy people are plush super Meng, add a little creativity, take a picture of their lovely photo can be said to be conveniently pinched. But if you want to draw a pet portrait, I'm afraid most people think it's an artist's job, and painting it can become a monster ... However, with the help of Photoshop, making a hand-painted pet portrait may be very simple, even PS rookie can make a very beautiful effect. This issue of foreign quality translation tutorials to discuss with you how to use PS to create a hand-painted pet portrait photo.

Final effect Diagram

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　　1. Prepare photos

If you just convert a picture to a drawing effect, it usually feels like it works. This is because the picture shows the real world, and painting is the idealized world that is processed by the human brain.

The difference between reality and ideal is subtle and important. Painting is intentional, and every stroke has an intention. Photographs, by contrast, show the real world objectively, whether the world is ugly or not.

So in the process of getting ready to turn pictures into paintings, you need to consider the above. So before you start to turn to the painting effect, do some processing of the photos.

Step 1

Take a look at the pet photo below, and you'll find two places to adjust: two straps and too close to the puppy's chair.

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Step 2

Select the Polygon Lasso tool, create a selection along the foot profile of the Chair, and select Edit > Fill to use content recognition.

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After you click OK, PS will automatically select similar pixel fills based on the surrounding selection and background. The effect is shown in the following illustration.

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Apply the same method to dispose of the tape, after processing, press Ctrl+d to cancel the selection.

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Step 3

The dog's nose is a bit dirty in the picture, and the stains and spots are distracting, so it's also going to be erased. The Healing Brush tool is used here.

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Step 4

Adjust the puppy eye section below. Add a new layer, named "Black Eyes", the use of soft black brush, the eye peripheral darkened. It looks a little scary now, but it's good to be back.

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Step 5

Select the Pen tool, draw a crescent-shaped, then fill the brown #c07c3e. The outline of the new Iris is not too much to mind, as it will not be apparent in the process of being portrayed.

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Step 6

To make the iris look more lifelike, double click on the eye shape layer, and then set the inner shadow effect, set uncheck use Global light, angle -79°, size 10 pixels.

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Set inside glow, opacity 53%, source Center, block 15%, size 8 pixels.

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Sets the image overlay, blending mode is brightness, opacity 48%, scaling 65%.

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Sets the projection, blending mode to screen, color #d79356, not using global light, angular -119°, distance 4 pixels, size 4 pixels.

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After the layer styles are set, the effect is shown in the following illustration.

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Step 7

Select the Move tool, and then press ALT to drag so that you can copy the Iris shape layer of the eye.

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Step 8

Usually, the painting color will be more saturated than the photo. Select Layer > New adjustment layer > Natural saturation to set natural saturation of +88, so that the color saturation of the photo will be deeper.

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Step 9

A puppy's nose can add a pink hue. Select Layer > New adjustment layer > Hue/saturation to set hue 359, saturation 33, lightness-33.

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Step 10

Click the mask thumbnail for the hue/saturation adjustment layer, and then select Fill Black to hide the color effect.

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Step 11

Select the Brush tool, double-click the foreground color, and choose white. Then right click on the canvas, bring up the Brush property panel, set the size to 40 pixels, hardness 50%, brush style as shown in the following figure.

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Use a white brush to control the color adjustment effect in the dog's nose position. To confirm the operation, the operation position is for hue/saturation adjustment layer mask, reduce the adjustment layer opacity to 68%.

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Step 12

Below to improve the blue color effect of the carpet, add hue/Saturation adjustment layer, select the Drop-down menu set color channel for cyan, set hue-29, saturation +60, brightness +21.

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Step 13

Press Alt+ctrl+a to select all layers, and then select Layers > Smart objects > Convert to Smart Objects, and the name new layer is "pet photo retouching."

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Step 14

When the image details are removed, the hand-painted results will be much better. So choose Filter > Blur > Smart blur, set radius 2 pixel, valve value 50, high quality.

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Step 15

Choose Filter > Liquefaction, select the expansion tool, and then adjust the brush size to match the size of the dog's eyeball, then point a few, then the eyeball is bigger. All two eyeballs do the same thing.

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Step 16

A small dog's nose looks a bit unnatural in a photo. Or in the Liquefied window, select the Forward deformation tool, adjust the shape of the nose, and then the nose has more vertical creases.

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