Today I’m going to share with you the right way to turn photos to paintings of any kind of any creative style that you wish using generator fill and also I’m going to share with you an action that’s going to make the process much simpler so without any further Ado let’s get
Started back in the magical world of Photoshop and if you wish to go ahead and download this photo and follow along you know what to do check the links in the description as you can see the resolution is very very high I recommend working with a lower resolution because
Anyway the generations of generator fil are lower in resolution so let’s go to image image size and we’re going to be working with 2 pixels width you want to make sure this is checked so that aspect ratio is maintained and also resampling is checked automatic is fine hit okay
Press control or command zero to fit the canvas to the screen let’s talk about the concept when you directly use generator fill it is not going to resemble the image we have to work with transparencies for example if we press control or command a to select it all
And then if we click on generator fill in the contextual task bar by the way if you cannot see it go to window you want to make sure you come down and check contextual taskbar there you go you will see that now now let’s click on
Generative fill and let us type in oil painting hit generate now as you can see these are absolutely unrelated so how do we tell Photoshop to generate something but keep an image as a reference there’s a way and that is transparent selections let’s delete this layer and this time
Let us make a 50% selection now you can do it with the quick mask mode but with channels it is easier to understand let’s go to the channels panel again if you cannot see it go to window and you want to make sure channels is checked
Now let us create a new Alpha Channel by clicking on this button let’s fill it with 50% gray click on the foreground color icon set the brightness to about 50 this is 50% gray H and saturation at zero hit okay that’s fine and press alt backspace or option delete now based on
This we will make a selection by holding the control or command and clicking on the thumbnail of this Alpha Channel now we have a 50% selection let’s go back and select our RGB come back to lers now when you hit generator fill and type in oil painting hit generate do keep in
Mind when working with channels the brighter the area the more that area would be selected since we painted it with 50% gray and made a selection based on that it was selected 50% and now as you can see they are much closer to the image first one second one and third one
Now we can make the generation more closer to the image by selecting less or in other words making the selection more transparent let us name this 50% of the image let’s turn this layer off select the background lay let’s go back to channels and name this one 50 because
That’s what it actually is let’s create a new one click on this button and this one let’s name it 20 and we’re going to fill it with 20% brightness now click here let’s set the brightness to 20 and then press alt backspace or option delete to fill it that way now make a
Selection based on it by holding the control or command and click on the thumbnail now it’s going to show you this warning the marging ants won’t be visible because the selection is so transparent hit okay do keep in mind the selection is still active if you go back
To layers you can click on generator fill because there is an active selection going on by the way inside channels let’s select RGB again selection is still active now click on generator fill we’re going to type in oil painting again and click on generate now as you can see the generations are
Actually very very close too much closer to the image and we can say that it is 80% of the image why 80 because we altered only 20% of it and made a selection with 20% opacity I hope it makes sense now that you get the concept
Doesn’t it give you an idea to generate alterations of different levels and combine them together for example this is 80% closer to the image so we can use it for the hair maybe for the clothes and this is only 50% closer to the image so we can use it for the background
Because they’re so creative only if there was an easy and automatic way of doing it actually there is thanks to Russell brown one of the big guys at Adobe he was actually the guy who convinced Adobe to buy Photoshop working with Adobe for decades one of the most
Creative people have met the genius had already explained it 6 months ago that’s where I learned about it and also created an action so you can download it from here I’m also going to link his video in the description so you can directly watch that as well once you
Download the action open up the actions panel if you cannot see it Kuru window and then actions inside of that to install the action click on this hamburger icon right there load actions just locate the action and click on open alternatively you can also double click
On the action to load it inside of the action you have all different kinds of styles already built in let us play the oil painting action and just click on the play button that’s all now as you can see it has generated all different levels of closeness to the original
Image let me share that with you so so here’s one which is only 40% of the image here is one which is 50 60 70 and 80 now you can combine all of them and create something awesome this is how I would go about it let’s turn off all of
Them by the way I would save this it’s it in itself is an Amazing Creation let’s open up the properties by clicking on this button right here if you cannot see the properties go to window you know what to do you want to make sure properties is checked I would actually
Cycle through different options to see if any is actually usable so for this one we can use this for some parts of the background so let’s name this bg1 let’s open up the second one let’s cycle through different options first second and third I actually like the third one
For some parts of the background as well so let’s use that let’s name it bg2 let’s go to the next one turn it on first second and third actually we can use this for parts of the hair and maybe the clothes so let’s name it subject S1
The next one let’s turn it on first second third now for the style I’m going for we can definitely use this one for parts of the face and this one for parts of the hair let’s make a copy of this one by pressing control or command J
Let’s select this one right here and we’re going to use this for the hair and let’s look at the last one I’m not sure whether it’s going to be usable or not first second and third no so let us delete this layer so select it press the
Delete key it will be gone now you can generate a couple times look at your options but we’re going to go with what we have so first of all let’s turn everything off except for the last one let’s keep it in the background on top
Of that let us turn on bg2 let’s select the mask press controll or command I and let’s take the brush with white as the foreground color you can always press D to set the foreground and the background color to defaults and just paint a couple areas where you want to modify it
Actually we ended up fully painting that’s fine too this just means we don’t really need this one let’s go to S1 wow we can can definitely use the subject areas so select the mask press control or command I let’s get back some of the subject areas now let’s turn on this one
See if the face is any better or the subject areas are any better you can combine different styles as well let’s select the mask press control or command eye let’s try painting parts of the face for this one let’s turn it on maybe parts of the hair the subject select the
Mask press control or command I paint a little bit of that area a little bit of this area now this is a wonderful painting but we have lost the face but before we recover it let us fix the areas that we don’t like so select the lasso tool right here this area
Looks a bit awkward so we’re going to select that area and again simply use Genera filp click on generate and it’s creating a layer here so cancel select the topmost layer click on generate so I generated twice and this one works better now let’s recover the face so for
The face whatever you do with generator fill will alter the face in some way it doesn’t retain the characteristics of the face so we have to do that kind of thing manually and we have to get back to our old granddaddy filters first of all select the topmost generative flayer
Hold the shift key select the bottommost one and then press control or command G let’s name this gen paint now click on the mask button right here take the brush with black as the foreground color just bring back the eyes and the mouth and the characteristics of the face now
The face is looking very realistic so here’s how you make it artistic make a copy of the subject lay name it paint filter let’s go to filter convert for smart filters hit okay so that whatever filter we apply we can change the values later let’s go to filter and then filter
Gallery by the way you can also consider using parametric filters in Photoshop beta but then again it’s not perfect yet so right in here I’ve already created two filters so let me create them from scratch for you so we have different ones like artistic brush Strokes distort
Right here so first of all we’re going to go to brush strokes and we’ll choose something like angled Strokes you can play with the settings change the stroke length the sharpness and everything I don’t want any sharpness here let’s keep it this way and you can stack different
Filters so on top of it I can click on the plus button and for this one if you’re going to go to Artistic and choose a watercolor I’m going to leave everything just the way it is hit okay and there you have it blending in now I
Would recommend going back to the mask take the brush and with the white as the foreground color decrease the flow to about 5 or 6% just paint back in some of these areas get the flow to about 10% now you can always go back if something
Is not working the way you want it to work this pretty much looks okay to me and there you have your painting now just before recording this video I did another version and I felt that that result kind of was a little better than this one so let me share that with you
It’s the exact same thing so here’s what we created here’s what I had created before so both are different ones you can choose what you like you can generate one more time that’s the thing with Genera fill you can keep on generating and it just is Limitless so
Let’s go with this it’s the exact same thing as you can see and now it is time for us to upscale as you can see the resolution is not pretty high it’s very low now just in a previous video we talked about some of the best free
Upscales you can check it out later so to upscale it let’s export it first go to file export export as and I’m going to set the export width to about 1,000 only so that we have more scope for upscaling and the ation was already even lower resolution so let’s keep it that
Way everything else is fine you can see the settings right here click on export let’s name it oil painting export click on Save now for upscaling I’m going to use this free application called upscale with a Y it’s free and open source you can check the code if you want to and
Also there are other platforms which we have talked about in this video in case this doesn’t work or in case if you don’t like it let’s drag and drop our photo right here and there are different models that we can use so I’m going to use this ultramix balanced as you can
See the resulting resolution would be this much click click on upscale it uses your computer power so nothing on the cloud and there you go it’s done before after pretty amazing upscaling especially if you look at The Strokes in the background here’s the before and
Here is the after so darn good have a look right here before after great so that’s how to turn photos to paintings of any style that you like and you can get as creative as you want for example you can just select the subject very roughly invert the selection press
Control shift I command shift I or click on this button in the contextual taskbar click on generator fill you can also create a transparent selection up to you full selection up to you and type in flower garden oil painting I generated just twice and look at the results these
Are just incredible aren’t they for example I like this one but I don’t like the hair right here I can select just that area and change it I like this one I don’t like a particular area we can modify it the creativity is absolutely Limitless right here the secret to
Generat a fill using your image as a reference is transparent selections the Lesser you select the closer your generation will be to the image and then you can combine different levels of generation to create the style of your choice I hope this video helped you and
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