Velvety / Painterly effect v2

[Damien Symonds]

8 hours ago, Charliepw said:

did you mask the texture onto the background only?

Yes. Sorry, I thought you'd be able to tell from the mask in my screenshot.

8 hours ago, Charliepw said:

and leave the face clear?

and did you do anything to her skin at all?

I'm not hiding anything from you, I promise.  I only did the exact steps you see above.

[Charliepw]

fab, thank you Damien, i'll be trying this tomorrow to see how it works and then i'll try it a few other photos.

[Charliepw]

i've been playing, i'm really loving it.

I think i need to make some more textures, do you have any guidance / knowledge on which types of textures go with which types of images?

ie: does a darker texture go better with a darker background, and a lighter texture go better with a lighter background?

 

[Damien Symonds]

4 hours ago, Charliepw said:

ie: does a darker texture go better with a darker background, and a lighter texture go better with a lighter background?

To be honest, very often it shouldn't matter.  It all depends on which blend mode you use.

[Damien Symonds]

How did you go?  May we see?

[Charliepw]

yes of course, here is the photo we were working with, which i really like, but i think my version is slightly bluer, but that seems to be coming from the texture.

and i've also added another i've been playing with using the same method.

i'm loving it.

 

 

[Damien Symonds]

Be careful of the dark halo around her face in the second one.

[Charliepw]

ooh what do you mean?

please show me.

[Charliepw]

are you talking about the background on the darker image, and how much i've masked off around her head and how i've created a circle around her head?

If yes, then thank you for pointing that out, it does perhaps need a bit of tweaking.