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Q. Photoshop Howto: Painting With Photos

Asked by [[dead account]] (K=6692) on 12/2/2004

I've been goofing around with this technique for a while now and I am starting to get good results with it.

Basically, I use color selections from photographs in Photoshop to create new collages. While the final images tend towards the abstract, this is a fun way to play with Photoshop in an unusual manner.

Step 1:

Open up the image you want to take samples from:

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Step 2:

Go to image/select color range

Step 3:

Using the eye dropper tool, select a small portion of color and slide the ?fuzziness? bar until you have a shape you like, then click ?okay.?

[[dead account]] (K=6692) - Comment Date 12/2/2004

Step 4:

Copy the selection and paste into a new document:

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Step 5:

You can now use the same process to grab different color selections from the original object to create paint dabs to use in your new image.

[[dead account]] (K=6692) - Comment Date 12/2/2004

I have 3 examples of images created using this process:

The first one is called "Little Dude" which uses the same flower in this demonstration. I used dozens of selections from this flower to create an image of a little space alien dude with the body of a flower:

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The second example is called "Ghostflower" which uses samples from another flower used to construct this canvas. I turned it into a really glossy monotone to create the gold texture:

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The third example of this is called "Fireflower" where I took sections of another flower and constructed a new one out of those pieces. While this is a cruder version of what I do now, I am still happy with this effect:

[[dead account]] (K=6692) - Comment Date 12/2/2004

I hope this tutorial was useful and made some sense and you can use some of the ideas here to enhance your enjoyment in Photoshop.

Nitish Kanabar (K=2618) - Comment Date 12/2/2004

Superb technique and work! A really neat way to create custom brushes with the texture intact. Thanks for sharing this, John.

Deb Mayes (K=19605) - Comment Date 12/2/2004

Excellent, John - creative and it definitely looks like fun. :) Thank you.

Sean Nel (K=557) - Comment Date 12/18/2004

Hey this looks useful! Thanks so much John...

Hermen Pen

Hermen Pen (K=9168) - Comment Date 12/19/2004

John, thank you for posting, very creative effect, I will definitely experiment with it!

Simon Wyn Edwards (K=339) - Comment Date 12/30/2004

This looks like fun! Thanks for the tutorial, it's given me some ideas!

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