Fun with Photomanipulation

[Jürgen Hubert]

Recently, I have been trying my luck with photomanipulation to get some decent "illustrations" for Urbis. All images were originally from MorgueFile.Com, a repository of free images. I took one or more photos and then attempted to use a succession of filters on them to make them look more like a painting and less like a photography. You'll be the judge of how successful I was.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

And another one.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I like the effects - I've done the same thing a few times. And BTW thanks for the link to MorgueFile - that's a great site!

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

I like the effects - I've done the same thing a few times. And BTW thanks for the link to MorgueFile - that's a great site!

Indeed it is, although you need to think a bit out of the box to get precisely the effect you want - for some reason, the photos on that site are a bit short of mythical monsters.

So I used this image as a basis for the dragon flying above the desert...

 

[Ishmayl]

I like to take real nature photos; particularly of mountains, or spooky looking forests, and photoshop them so that it looks like someone painted/drew/colored them. Good work Jurgen, what kinds of textures and filters are you using?

 

[Meloncov]

I think that if you really want to get it to look like a painting, your going to have to go in with the paintbrush tool and paint over some areas. Filters are a useful tool, but used alone they just tend to make things look blobby.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

I like to take real nature photos; particularly of mountains, or spooky looking forests, and photoshop them so that it looks like someone painted/drew/colored them. Good work Jurgen, what kinds of textures and filters are you using?

I'm using GIMP - other programs might vary.

First I duplicated the image, used the "Cartoonize" filter on the top layer and converted white to transparent. I then merged the top layer down and adjusted brightness and contrast until it had about the same brightness as the original image.

Then I duplicated the image again and did the same thing to the top layer - but then I also applied a "Gaussian Blur" with 40 px to the bottom layer before merging them.

Then I applied an "Oilify" filter with 7-12 px to the image and I was done.