{"id":36,"date":"2012-09-29T03:37:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T03:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.photoshopessentials.com\/photoshopessentials_wp\/?p=36"},"modified":"2022-11-06T00:20:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T04:20:38","slug":"oil-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.photoshopessentials.com\/newsite\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Photo To Oil Painting Action In Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"author\">Written by Steve Patterson.<\/div>\n<p>In this Photo Effects tutorial, we're going to take a photo and make it look like an oil painting, which is a popular and fun thing to do with Photoshop. Problem is, creating the effect requires the use of a few different filters and memorizing the settings for each one, which isn't fun, and it's also a little time consuming, meaning it takes more than five seconds.<\/p>\n<p>To get around that problem, we're going to save our steps as an action. When we're done, not only will we have converted our photo into an oil painting, we'll have a handy \"Instant Photo To Oil Painting\" action that we can apply to any photo from then on, letting Photoshop do all the work for us! Not only is this a great effect to add to any photo, amateur or professional, but if you happen to be a pro photographer, once you've saved the action, you can charge future clients big time bucks for an effect that you created in the time it took you to press a keyboard shortcut. Not that you would do that, of course. That would just be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here's the original image I'll be using for this tutorial:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/original.jpg\" alt=\"The original image\" style=\"margin-bottom:20px;\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>And here's the &quot;oil painting&quot; version. It may look complicated, but as I said, once we're done with this tutorial, you'll be able to instantly convert any photo into an oil painting without having to redo any of the steps we're about to go through.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/final-result.jpg\" alt=\"The final result\" style=\"margin-bottom:12px;\"\/><br \/>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.ads-middle { display: inline-block; width:300px; margin:6px 0px 24px 0px; padding-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; }\n@media (max-width: 515px) { .ads-middle { margin:20px 0; } }\n@media (max-width: 480px) { .ads-middle { margin:20px 0; } }\n<\/style><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6601556224092982\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<!-- photo effects 300x250 middle responsive -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle ads-middle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6601556224092982\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4216941496\"\n     data-ad-format=\"rectangle\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>This tutorial is from our <a href=\"\/photo-effects\/\" title=\"More Photoshop photo effects tutorials\">Photo Effects<\/a> series. Let's get started!<\/p>\n<aside><p class=\"members-ad-top\"><a href=\"\/print-ready-pdfs\/\">Download all of our Photoshop tutorials as PDFs!<\/a><\/p><\/aside>\n<h4><span>Step 1:<\/span> Create A New Action<\/h4>\n<p>Since we only want to have to go through these steps once, we're going to record them all as an action. But before we can do that, we need to create one. Go to your <strong>Actions<\/strong> palette (it's grouped in with the History palette) and click on the <strong>Create New Action<\/strong> button at the bottom of the palette:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/create-new-action.jpg\" alt=\"Photoshop's Actions palette\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Click the \"Create New Action\" button at the bottom of the Actions palette.<\/div>\n<p>This will bring up the <strong>New Action<\/strong> dialog box:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/new-action-dialog-box.jpg\" alt=\"Photoshop's New Action dialog box\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">The \"New Action\" dialog box.<\/div>\n<p>Name the new action \"Instant Photo To Oil Painting\", or a name of your choosing, as I've circled in red above. To be able to quickly access this action when we're done, I'm giving mine a keyboard shortcut of <strong>Shift+Ctrl+F12<\/strong>, again as I've circled above. That would be <strong>Shift+Command+F12<\/strong> on a Mac. You can assign whichever function key you like, and if you want to include the Shift and\/or Ctrl key (again, Command on a Mac), click inside the checkbox to the left of their names.<\/p>\n<p>When you're ready, click the <strong>Record<\/strong> button and Photoshop will begin recording our steps.<\/p>\n<h4><span>Step 2:<\/span> Increase The Saturation Of The Image With Hue\/Saturation<\/h4>\n<p>We want our oil painting to have rich, striking colors, so let's increase the saturation of our image using a Hue\/Saturation adjustment. Go up to the <strong>Image menu<\/strong> at the top of the screen, select <strong>Adjustments<\/strong>, and then select <strong>Hue\/Saturation<\/strong>, or use the keyboard shortcut <strong>Ctrl+U<\/strong> (Win) \/ <strong>Command+U<\/strong> (Mac). This brings up the <strong>Hue\/Saturation<\/strong> dialog box:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/hue-saturation.jpg\" alt=\"Photoshop's Hue\/Saturation dialog box\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Photoshop's \"Hue\/Saturation\" dialog box.<\/div>\n<p>Click and drag the middle slider bar directly below the word &quot;Saturation&quot; to increase the saturation of the photo around 40-50%. I'm setting mine to <strong>50%<\/strong> as I've circled above. The idea is to increase the color saturation until it looks like you've gone a bit too far. 40-50% should do the trick.<\/p>\n<p>Here's my image so far after increasing the saturation:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/image-colors-saturated.jpg\" alt=\"The image after saturating the colors\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">The photo after increasing color saturation.<\/div>\n<p>We're going to head off into the world of Photoshop's Filter Gallery next.<\/p>\n<h4><span>Step 3:<\/span> Apply The &quot;Glass&quot; Distort Filter<\/h4>\n<p>We're going to use Photoshop's <strong>Filter Gallery<\/strong> in these next few steps to stack several filter effects on top of each other. If you've never played around in the Filter Gallery, you should definitely take some time and check it out on your own. We could access the Filter Gallery directly from the Filter menu, but instead, let's just bring up our first filter, which will automatically launch the Gallery anyway. Go up to the <strong>Filter menu<\/strong> at the top of the screen, select <strong>Distort<\/strong>, and then select <strong>Glass<\/strong>. As I mentioned, this will launch the Filter Gallery, set to the Glass filter options:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/glass-filter-options.jpg\" alt=\"The Filter Gallery showing the options for the Glass filter\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Photoshop's Filter Gallery currently showing the options for the Glass filter.<\/div>\n<p>It's a little hard to see in the screenshot above, thanks to the Filter Gallery being so massively huge, but I've circled the settings we want to change. Set <strong>Distortion<\/strong> to <strong>3<\/strong>, <strong>Smoothness<\/strong> also to <strong>3<\/strong>, select <strong>Canvas<\/strong> from the <strong>Texture<\/strong> drop-down menu, and set the <strong>Scaling<\/strong> value to <strong>79%<\/strong>. Don't click OK yet, we have a few more filters to add.<\/p>\n<h4><span>Step 4:<\/span> Add A New  Effect Layer<\/h4>\n<p>The cool thing about Photoshop's Filter Gallery is that it's almost like a Layers palette for filter effects, meaning that we can stack filters on top of each other, just as we stack layers in the Layers palette, effectively combining the filters together to create effects that just wouldn't be possible otherwise. Currently, we have only the Glass filter loaded into the Gallery, as you can see in the bottom right corner of the screenshot above. We want to add a new &quot;effect layer&quot; above it, and to do that, click on the <strong>New Effect Layer<\/strong> icon in the bottom right of the Filter Gallery (directly to the left of the trash bin icon):<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/new-effect-layer-icon.jpg\" alt=\"Clicking the New Effect Layer button\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Click the \"New Effect Layer\" icon to add a new effect layer above the Glass layer.<\/div>\n<p>This will add a new effect layer above the Glass layer.<\/p>\n<h4><span>Step 5:<\/span> Select The \"Paint Daubs\" Filter From The \"Artistic\" Set<\/h4>\n<p>With our new effect layer created above the Glass layer, open up the <strong>Artistic<\/strong> filters set in the center column of the Filter Gallery and choose the <strong>Paint Daubs<\/strong> filter:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/paint-daubs-options.jpg\" alt=\"The options for Paint Daubs\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">The Filter Gallery showing the options for \"Paint Daubs\" in the \"Artistic\" set.<\/div>\n<p>Again it's a little hard to see in the screenshot, but I've circled the settings we want to change here. Set <strong>Brush Size<\/strong> to <strong>4<\/strong>, <strong>Sharpness<\/strong> to <strong>1<\/strong>, and from the <strong>Brush Type<\/strong> drop-down list, choose <strong>Simple<\/strong>. Notice at the bottom of the dialog box that it's now showing the Paint Daubs effect layer above the Glass layer (again circled in red).<\/p>\n<h4><span>Step 6:<\/span> Add Another New  Effect Layer<\/h4>\n<p>Two more filters to go. We need another effect layer, so once again, click on the <strong>New Effect Layer<\/strong> icon to add a new effect layer, this time above the Paint Daubs layer.<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/new-effect-layer-2.jpg\" alt=\"Clicking the New Effect Layer button again\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Click the \"New Effect Layer\" icon once again to add a new effect layer above the Paint Daubs layer.<\/div>\n<h4><span>Step 7:<\/span> Select The \"Angled Strokes\" Filter From The \"Brush Strokes\" Set<\/h4>\n<p>Two effects down, two to go. With our new effects layer created above the Paint Daubs layer, open up the <strong>Brush Strokes<\/strong> set in the center of the Filter Gallery and choose <strong>Angled Strokes<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/angled-strokes-options.jpg\" alt=\"The options for Angled Strokes\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">The options for the \"Angled Strokes\" filter.<\/div>\n<p>I won't bother showing the large preview area in the left of the Filter Gallery this time so we have more room to see the settings we're concerned with in the options. Set <strong>Direction Balance<\/strong> to <strong>46<\/strong>, <strong>Stroke Length<\/strong> to <strong>3<\/strong>, and <strong>Sharpness<\/strong> to <strong>1<\/strong>. Again notice at the bottom of the dialog box that it's now showing three effect layers stacked on top of each other. One more to go!<\/p>\n<h4><span>Step 8:<\/span> Add A Fourth And Final Effect Layer<\/h4>\n<p>Last time, click the <strong>New Effect Layer<\/strong> icon to add a fourth and final effect layer, this time above \"Angled Strokes\":<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/new-effect-layer-3.gif\" alt=\"Clicking the New Effect Layer button a third time\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Click the \"New Effect Layer\" icon one last time to add a new effect layer above the Angled Strokes layer.<\/div>\n<h4><span>Step 9:<\/span> Select The \"Texturizer\" Filter From The \"Texture\" Set<\/h4>\n<p>Finally, open up the <strong>Texture<\/strong> set in the center of the Filter Gallery and choose <strong>Texturizer<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/texturizer-options.gif\" alt=\"The options for Texturizer\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">The options for the \"Texturizer\" filter.<\/div>\n<p>Again, I won't bother showing the large preview area on the left in the Filter Gallery since it takes up too much space in the screenshot. From the <strong>Texture<\/strong> drop-down list, choose <strong>Canvas<\/strong>, then set <strong>Scaling<\/strong> to <strong>65%<\/strong> and <strong>Relief<\/strong> to <strong>2<\/strong>. Last but not least, select <strong>Top Left<\/strong> from the <strong>Light<\/strong> drop-down menu to set the light direction.<\/p>\n<p>When you're done all that, click OK to apply all four filters at once to the photo. Here's what mine looks like at this point:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/image-filters-applied.jpg\" alt=\"The image with all four effects applied.\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">The image with all four filter effects applied.<\/div>\n<h4><span>Step 10:<\/span> Duplicate The Background Layer<\/h4>\n<p>Now that we've saturated the colors in the photo and applied all four filter effects to it, we need to duplicate the Background layer, and the easiest way to do that is to use the keyboard shortcut <strong>Ctrl+J<\/strong> (Win) \/ <strong>Command+J<\/strong> (Mac), which gives us a copy of our Background layer in the Layers palette:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/duplicate-layer.jpg\" alt=\"Duplicate the Background layer\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">The Layers palette showing our Background layer and the copy, named \"Layer 1\".<\/div>\n<p>Normally, I'd be renaming this new layer to something more descriptive than what Photoshop calls it by default, \"Layer 1\", but since all of these steps are being recorded into an action and we'll never be doing this again manually, there's no point. \"Layer 1\" will do just fine.<\/p>\n<h4><span>Step 11:<\/span> Desaturate The Layer<\/h4>\n<p>We need to quickly desaturate the colors from this layer, leaving it black and white. We could do this the \"getting paid by the hour\" way by going up to the <strong>Image menu<\/strong> at the top of the screen, selecting <strong>Adjustments<\/strong>, and then selecting <strong>Desaturate<\/strong>, but that takes too long. Let's use the faster keyboard shortcut <strong>Shift+Ctrl+U<\/strong> (Win) \/ <strong>Shift+Command+U<\/strong> (Mac). Here's my image with &quot;Layer 1&quot; desaturated:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/image-desaturated.jpg\" alt=\"The image after desaturating the top layer\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">The image after desaturating the top layer, \"Layer 1\".<\/div>\n<h4><span>Step 12:<\/span> Change The Blend Mode Of The New Layer To \"Overlay\"<\/h4>\n<p>We need to change the blend mode of this desaturated layer from it's default of \"Normal\" to \"Overlay\". To do that, with \"Layer 1\" selected, go up to the top of the Layers palette and click on the down-pointing arrow directly to the right of the word \"Normal\", which brings up a drop-down list of available blend modes. Choose <strong>Overlay<\/strong> from the list:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/overlay.jpg\" alt=\"Changing the blend mode of the layer to Overlay\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Change the blend mode of the new layer from \"Normal\" to \"Overlay\".<\/div>\n<p>And here's how the image looks now:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/image-overlay.jpg\" alt=\"The image after changing the blend mode of the layer to Overlay\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">The current state of the image after changing the blend mode to \"Overlay\".<\/div>\n<h4><span>Step 13:<\/span> Apply The Emboss Filter<\/h4>\n<p>We have one last filter effect to apply. Go back up to the <strong>Filter menu<\/strong>, and this time select <strong>Stylize<\/strong> and then <strong>Emboss<\/strong> to bring up the Emboss filter's dialog box:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/emboss-dialog-box.jpg\" alt=\"The Emboss dialog box\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">The Emboss dialog box.<\/div>\n<p>As I've circled above, set the <strong>Angle<\/strong> of the effect to <strong>135%<\/strong>, the <strong>Height<\/strong> to <strong>1 pixel<\/strong>, and drag the slider bar at the bottom all the way to the right to set the <strong>Amount<\/strong> to <strong>500%<\/strong>. Click OK when you're done.<\/p>\n<h4><span>Step 14:<\/span> Lower The Opacity Of The Layer<\/h4>\n<p>Finally, to finish off the effect, with &quot;Layer 1&quot; still selected, go up to the <strong>Opacity<\/strong> option in the top right of the Layers palette and lower it from 100% down to <strong>40%<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/lower-opacity.jpg\" alt=\"Lowering the opacity of the layer to 40%\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Lower the opacity of \"Layer 1\" to 40% to finish off the effect.<\/div>\n<h4><span>Step 15:<\/span> Click \"Stop\" To Finish The Action<\/h4>\n<p>Our \"Instant Photo To Oil Painting\" effect is now complete, which means we can tell Photoshop to stop recording the action. To do that, click the <strong>Stop<\/strong> icon at the bottom of the Actions palette:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/stop.gif\" alt=\"Pressing the Stop button to end the action recording\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">Click the \"Stop\" icon at the bottom of the Actions palette to end the recording and complete the \"Instant Photo To Oil Painting\" action.<\/div>\n<p>And there we go, all done! Not only have we converted this photo into what looks like an oil painting, but we now have all of our steps saved as an action, which if you remember from when we started, I assigned a keyboard shortcut of <strong>Shift+Ctrl+F12<\/strong> to, which would be <strong>Shift+Command+F12<\/strong> on a Mac. So now, the next time I want to apply this effect to another photo, I can just use the keyboard shortcut, then sit back and let Photoshop do all the work.<\/p>\n<p>Just one thing to point out, depending on how powerful your computer is, it could take a few seconds (or more) for Photoshop to go through all the steps in the action, so don't worry if you press your keyboard shortcut and things seem to be moving a little slow. Just sit back and let Photoshop do its thing.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, we're done! Here's my original photo once again for comparison:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/original.jpg\" alt=\"The original image\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">The original image once again.<\/div>\n<p>And here's my \"Photo To Oil Painting\" result:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/photo-effects\/oil-painting\/final-result.jpg\" alt=\"The final result.\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-desc\">The final result.<\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.ads-bottom { width:300px; padding-top:16px;padding-bottom:16px; }\n<\/style><div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6601556224092982\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<!-- 300x250 page bottom responsive -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle ads-bottom\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6601556224092982\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"2879809098\"\n     data-ad-format=\"rectangle\"\n\t data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p>And there we have it! 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