Imported images are always “wet”, and I prefer the way they look when painted on “dry”.
Wet paint moves around more freely and tends to get lumpy. Now, in Artrage paint can be “wet” or “dry”. If it isn’t, set it at Tools/Tracing Options/Automatically Choose Colors from Tracing Image. Make sure the paint is set to come from the tracing image. Set the tracing image to be invisible so you can see your painting clearly. This allows you to colour pick from the unpainted version, which can be useful when your painting gets too muddy. Go to Tools/Tracing Options/Load Tracing Image and load it again. If you don’t have Artrage you could stop here. Then I set the blending mode to “overlay”. I then go to “Colors/Adjust Brightness and Contrast” and increase the brightness by 30 to make up for the darkening effect of GIMPressionist. I set the preset to “Feathers”, minimum size to 20, maximum size to 50 and “size depends on” to adaptive. I set the size to 6 and otherwise leave the settings alone.Īpply the “Artistic/GIMPressionist” filter to the top layer. I added some brightness to mine.Īpply the “Artistic/oilify” filter to the bottom layer. You can edit some of this later, the most important thing in my experience is that your image not be too dark. If neccesary, use the “Colors” tools to make sure the colours/contrast etc look about right. My images are 1000x750 pixels, adjust the numbers accordingly if yours is a different size. I’m working with a 3D render of a dressing room I made in Blender (which is also free) but you could use a photo.
#Artrage vs painter 11 how to
I’m still new to this technique but couldn’t find any similar tutorials, if anyone has suggestions on how to improve I would love to hear them. Here’s a bedroom I painted based on a Blender model render, using textures from and an out of copyright painting:
It requires GIMP (free), Artrage Lite ($30), and some basic image manipulation and painting abilities (priceless )) You could use Photoshop instead of GIMP to similar effect. This is a relatively quick and easy technique for turning photos and photo-like images into impressionist style digital paintings.