Game screens turned impressionist

[JV44HeinzBar]

S!,

As I continue my journey down the long path of learning photoshop, I thought I'd use one of the screenshots supplied by @Worghern. I simply called it Tigers in the Grass. I'm still a long way from being good at photoshop, but I'm trying.

 

I basically take the original screenshot, create many different layers, e.g. color, adjustment, brightness layers, etc. I then add different canvas textures behind the screenshot and blend. This one took several weeks to do as I was learning different techniques. However, I think I've got a handle on how to create the effects I like for impressionist paintings.

 

If anyone has some screenshots that they would like painted as impressionist oils, post below.

 

HB

 

Original screenshot

Impressionist screenshot

Edited February 7, 2023 by JV44HeinzBar

[MajorMagee]

I've reworked your original a few different ways as examples of using a plug-in called Topaz Studio (unfortunately obsolete and no longer available for sale). It really makes it possible to transform an image in many different ways pretty quickly.

 

Dark Shadows

 

Oil

 

Van Gogh

 

Watercolor

Edited February 7, 2023 by MajorMagee

[JV44HeinzBar]

Wow!! Here I was actually painting and there's programs out there to convert pictures. I'm so dense at times. Oh well, at least I'm still learning a thing or two :)_

 

HB

[SCG_Neun]

Yes, but HB it is the same analogy with speaking to someone on the other side of the world on Discord verses Ham Radio....Still a lot of accomplishment and hobby with what you did there.  Thanks for all your hard work on the skins as well.

Edited February 7, 2023 by SCG_Neun

[MajorMagee]

Completely agree. The experimentation and learning is always worth the time to reach a deeper level of understanding of how image processing works. You are now able to freely create what you envision, rather than blindly following what someone else determined to be how it should be done.

 

Software tools like the original Topaz Studio provide lots of manipulation controls that are fairly useless without that level of understanding of what it takes to create what you want. The presets it provides are really just starting points that launch your imagination in minutes instead of needing endless trials to get on track with what you're after.

 

My medium with real paints and brushes is watercolor, and I spent many hours working to understand their nature to be able to create the images I wanted. More recently I moved on to primarily doing photography. That started as a way to capture subjects for my paintings, but spending the time to master those techniques left little time for painting anymore. The photography effort led to time spent learning Photoshop to clean up the images, and that skill eventually led me back to wanting to make them look like paintings... ?

Edited February 7, 2023 by MajorMagee

[Bonnot]

7 hours ago, MajorMagee said:

Completely agree.

Me Too !

Love this sensation of discovering something you never planned to do ...........for me it is close to hand painting or....cooking, adding spice, taste; etc......?

[JV44HeinzBar]

Thanks gents. I've found that looking at oil paintings, and trying to duplicate the effects of past masters, has given me ideas on how to better paint tanks. I would like to try to incorporate the signs of brush strokes on the skins to give some subtle texture from the troops working in the field. The next step would be to figure out to express the impasto feel on a 2D image. I've come across a really neat looking texture of cracked paint. I would like to figure out how to develop this into a new brush. I'm hoping it will give future skins a more aged, blistered look from being out in the field of combat.

 

HB