download oil paint filter for photoshop cs6

This feature is a bit hidden, but it’s an incredible labor saver, and also new with CS6. I applied different parameters to the chicken, the woman’s hair (which takes the filter beautifully), her clothes, the background, and most importantly, her skin. In fact, a bit of extra brushstroke fuzziness around the edges actually makes this look more like a painting. One of the great things about using masks here is that they don’t have to be too precise. This mimics how real-world painters create their images, frequently using softer, smaller brushes for areas of detail like faces, and cruder brush techniques and blending for less important areas, like the background. What you to do to avoid this is to use a series of masks, working with the brush controls to find the right filter parameters for different parts of the image.

Here you can see that, just as I got the chicken looking the way I wanted it, the woman’s face started to look like something you might see at a tribal-tattoo convention.

Once you start to adjust the sliders, you’ll quickly notice that as you get one part of the image looking good, other parts of the begin to look ridiculous. “Shine” governs the brightness of the light source and the amount of bounce off the paint’s surface. This is important, especially if you are incorporating the oil painting into another scene. “Angular Direction” affects the incidence angle of the light (not the brushstroke). “Bristle Detail” governs how much of a paintbrush-hair indentation is apparent, with 0 being soft and 10 leaving strong grooves. “Scale” affects the relief or apparent thickness of the paint, with 0 being a thin coat and 10 giving the you thick, luscious, van Gogh-style paint globs. “Cleanliness” is the length of the stroke, with 0 being the shortest and choppiest, and 10 being the longest and most fluid. “Stylization” ranges from a daubed look at 0 to smooth strokes at level 10. It’s right there at the top level of the Filter menu. This one isn’t hidden deep in some remote sub-menu. Many of the older texture filters simply don’t produce professional results, but this new one can create beautiful effects with just a little finessing. Adobe gave us a great new tool with the addition of the Oil Paint filter in CS6.

Download oil paint filter for photoshop cs6