{"id":4525,"date":"2016-03-25T01:09:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T01:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2016-03-25T01:09:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T01:09:32","slug":"painting-the-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/?p=4525","title":{"rendered":"Painting the Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sydjohnson\/25949984241\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1705\/25949984241_094abcb959.jpg\" alt=\"Painted image of some buildings in Bath, England\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJust having some fun painting and seeing what effects I can achieve. Following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/turn-your-photographs-into-paintings-using-photoshop\/learn\/v4\/content\" target=\"_blank\">Lori Jill&#8217;s Photoshop technique on Udemy<\/a>. Used some of her brushes to do the underpainting and painting in some of the details. I decided it needed a little more of a painterly look, so a brush I created using my Pastel 3 brush and adding the Gauze texture to it to get the nice soft cross hatching brush effect to paint on the image. (See my <a href=\"https:\/\/sydspix.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/16\/how-to-use-photoshops-brush-texture-section-for-painting-clean-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to Use Photoshop&#8217;s Brush Texture Section for Painting Clean-up<\/a> to create basic brush &#8211; then change Texture to Gauze, Scale 123%, Brightness -75, Contrast 50, Mode Multiply, Depth 86%, Min Depth 100%, and Depth Jitter 50%.) A Bevel and Emboss layer style was added to the whole image and the Texture was also set to Gauze, Scale 221% and Depth +51 to get the same effect on the whole image. That was basically it. It is fun to try and paint different types of images. Last 3 Lil&#8217; Owls (see sidebar for website link) overlay called Color Bokeh Grunge Set &#8211; #5 was added on top and set to Overlay blend mode. Still learning, but it is coming along&#8230;..Digital Lady Syd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just having some fun painting and seeing what effects I can achieve. Following Lori Jill&#8217;s Photoshop technique on Udemy. Used some of her brushes to do the underpainting and painting in some of the details. I decided it needed a little more of a painterly look, so a brush I created using my Pastel 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-4525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photoshop-painting","tag-photoshop-brushes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4526,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions\/4526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalladysyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}