This “painting” is from a photograph I took of a little girl playing with her doll in a puddle at Golden Gate Park.
One of the new features of Photoshop CS5 is the “mixer brush” which allows one to mix pixels in very much the same way you mix paint so that you can easily achieve a painterly effect. Even when I was painting with real paint in a studio, I usually worked from a photograph, so I have totally fallen in love with this new feature — all the joy of painting without the mess and expense of paint and canvas and brushes with the bonus of unlimited do-overs!
Lynda.com has a good tutorial on using the new mixer brush which you can find here, and it’s kind of fun to watch in a Bob Ross sort of way.
Linda says:
Beautiful!
June 20th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Quirky says:
WOW! That’s incredible! I love it!
June 20th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Roxanne says:
GORGEOUS. . .as always.
Really love that shot and the effect.
June 20th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Brigitte says:
SO cool! I used to paint from photographs too, way back in my carefree youth. It was always watercolors, though, I’ve never worked with oil (excluding those paint-by-numbers when I was about 7). Do they have watercolor effects too?
June 21st, 2010 at 5:37 am
Karen says:
…really really lovely shot and effect!
June 21st, 2010 at 7:25 am
Bill McNutt says:
Photoshop is no longer just an application. It’s an entire arts studio.
June 21st, 2010 at 8:44 am
rrmama says:
Very cool! Sweet and timeless too.
June 21st, 2010 at 9:47 am
Kathy Gillen at Wellness Roadtrip says:
Very fun. I can totally see how you could get wrapped up, spending hours of creative juice to produce these images. My husband got photoshop because at one point in his life he was very into photography. Unfortunately I think he has only produced a few photos in a couple years. It does take time to have a hobby!
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Actually I didn’t spend hours, that’s part of what makes it so cool.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Chris says:
Beautiful!
June 26th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Laura says:
Beautiful! I love it. I like to paint, but I agree, this is easier.
July 7th, 2010 at 8:29 am
Tara says:
This is lovely!
July 7th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Jennifer says:
Love this one. Wish I had that feature on PSE.
July 13th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Baby Favorite says:
Is everything okay? Where are you?!
July 18th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Dottie says:
Where are you? Hope all is well.
I miss you. I’m going back and reading your archives.I miss you.
July 18th, 2010 at 5:56 pm