How to Convert Photos to Art With Corel Painter

Painting Landscapes from Photos in Corel® Painter™

By Karen Sperling

Many professional photographers and hobbyists observe that they bask editing their photos in Adobe® Photoshop®; from irresolute tones and colors to adding filters or special effects. Many are discovering the joy of taking this photo editing a pace further and painting their photos using Corel Painter and a Wacom® tablet.

In this tutorial you're going to see how I turned a landscape photo I took in Cambria, CA into a painting in Corel Painter.

Photo and painting by Karen Sperling

When you lot paint a painting from a photo, it's a good idea to continue in mind traditional art concepts used by master landscape artists throughout the ages. These include:

1. Eliminate details

Eliminate details in the painting compared to the photo. Here's what the original photo looked like.

It had a lot of details, which I eliminated by cropping the photo in Photoshop.
Cropping the photo also helped with the dominion of thirds, the next fine art concept to go along in mind.

2. Rule of Thirds

Follow the rule of thirds, which recommends that your subject field falls on the imaginary folds if the sail were folded in thirds.

After the photo was cropped, the rocks in front savage approximately on the intersection of the imaginary folds, represented by the blue circles, becoming the clear subject area.

3. Choose a color scheme

1 of the differences between a photo and a painting is that a painting has a chosen color scheme. I chose a colour scheme by opening the photo in Painter and looking at information technology side by side to a color wheel. I decided to use an next color scheme, using colors next to each other from red-orange to blueish-light-green on the colour wheel.

In Painter, I chose File: Quick Clone. This created a copy, or clone, of the photo and deleted the contents of the copy so that I had a blank canvas to paint on. By cloning the photo, I ready up Painter to let me to turn on Tracing Newspaper, which lets me run across a 50 percent non-printing ghost of the photo. I press "command" on Mac, or "Ctrl" on Windows and type a "T" to turn on Tracing Paper. Echo to turn off Tracing Paper.

I chose the Oils brush category and the Real Oils Smeary variant. I chose a shade of burnt sienna, or brown, in the Colors palette. I began to pigment, creating a tonal painting, which is a traditional art technique to show the areas of low-cal and night to use as a guideline for colors later. Lift and paint to paint darker tones; scribble to pigment lighter ones.

Arrange the Size slider in the Belongings Bar to change the width of brushstrokes.

Next I started adding colour using the same castor.

At this betoken, I used 4 variants of the Oils brush category and painted the rocks in the foreground, the plants and the shoreline in the groundwork.

I outlined with the Fine Camel variant, made distinct brushstrokes with the Real Tapered Bristle, painted smooth oily strokes with the Oily Bristle and blended in places with the Real Oils Smeary variant. I besides blended with the Blenders Merely Add Water variant a piffling, merely I didn't blend a lot because I wanted the brushstrokes to exist visible.

Here you lot see the rocks at diverse stages in the painting from left to right, including the concluding, all the fashion to the right.

I was playing around less with the brushstrokes and more with getting the highlights, mid-tones and shadows right, based on the photo, and using the colors in my adjacent colour scheme.
I used the Artists Impressionist variant to paint the water. I blocked in areas of color, and I put in lines of lite and dark based on where I saw highlights and shadows in the photo by lowering the Jitter slider in the Belongings Bar and painting.

And then I blended in places with the Blenders H2o Rake.

And that's how I turned a landscape photo into a painting in Corel Painter!

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Karen Sperling is the original Corel Painter good. She wrote the software plan's first several manuals and several published books, including the current bestselling Painting for Photographers, which is available at her web site http://artistrymag.com/ along with her Painting for Photographers DVd's for painting portraits and landscapes from photos. Karen Sperling has exhibited her fine art in New York and during Fine art Basel Miami. Her art and deputed portraits are held in private collections around the world and are available through her spider web site http://karensperling.com/.

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