Oil Painting Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we will learn how to create oil painting from any image in Photoshop.



Tutorial Details
Program: Photoshop CS5
Estimated Completion Time: 20 Minutes
Tutorial Assets
The following assets were used in the creation of this tutorial.
* Wooden Hut in fall
Step 1
Create a new document with Width 1200px and Height 1000px.

Step 2
Now open the image file, which you want to convert into an oil painting. Click Ctrl+ A to select that image and then press Ctrl+ C to copy it. After that, create a new layer in your document and press Ctrl+ V to paste the image. Now go to Edit > Free transform tool and resize the image according to your need using this tool.

Step 3
Next, we’ll adjust the colors of our image to make it brighter. For this, go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation and use the given settings.

Step 4
After that, go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast and use the following values.

Step 5
We’ve adjusted our image so far, now we’ll move ahead to apply oil painting effect on it using various filters in Photoshop. Firstly, duplicate image by going to Layer > Duplicate layer. We’ll work on this duplicated image now. Go to Filter > Artistic > Plastic wrap and use the given settings but do not click ‘Ok’ as we are going to apply few more filters.

Step 6
Now click on the ‘new effect layer’ icon, which is present at the bottom of this palette. Then click on ‘paint daubs’ option and use the following settings.

Step 7
Once again click on ‘new effect layer’ icon. Then click on ‘texture folder’ and select ‘texturizer’. Use the given settings for texturizer.

Step 8
Now press the ‘new effect layer’ icon and click on the ‘distort folder’. Select ‘glass’ from the menu and use the displayed values. You can press ‘Ok’ now.

Step 9
Next we’ll give it emboss appearance. Click on the original image layer and duplicate it. Place this ‘copy layer’ above the ‘oil painting layer’. Now go to Image > Adjustments > Black and White and use the default settings here.

Step 10
Lastly, go to Filter > Stylize > Emboss and use the given values.

Change the blending mode of this layer to ‘vivid light’. That’s all guys.


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