Doug Kerr
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Is there a Photoshop function we can use to take an image that looks like a highly-realistic painting and transform it so it looks more like a photograph?
Best regards,
Doug
Best regards,
Doug
This would be a fun challenge! Every painting has it's own character so I assume you are starting with a photorealistic picture. The things to get rid of would be the canvas texture by some sort of descreening method and the brush strokes.Is there a Photoshop function we can use to take an image that looks like a highly-realistic painting and transform it so it looks more like a photograph?
Indeed. But they were photographs once, so maybe the transformation is reversible.Hi Doug,
Easier said than done I suspect.
Well, here is a recent offering from Matt Halstead:Do you have an example of what you have in mind?
Is there a Photoshop function we can use to take an image that looks like a highly-realistic painting and transform it so it looks more like a photograph?
Yeah, I was.On the other hand if you were being a bit sarcastic and/or a real painting was not the origin, then Fourier transforms are not what you need.
Yeah, I was.
Probably the function I'm looking for is "undo"!
Is there a Photoshop function we can use to take an image that looks like a highly-realistic painting and transform it so it looks more like a photograph?
I see these things here all the time of late, images that have been so heavily "tone-mapped" that they look like highly realistic paintings.I'd love to know what you are really talking about! Show us the picture which made you think along this track! Is there anything besides Matt's picture that got you going here?
So what is genuine nowadays? Genuine Nagahyde or genuine "fake" watches. For the latter, the guy, (in the underground market in Istanbul with that sign), must have thought that Fake was brand like Nike!Hi, Asher,
I see these things here all the time of late, images that have been so heavily "tone-mapped" that they look like highly realistic paintings.
Is there a Photoshop function we can use to take an image that looks like a highly-realistic painting and transform it so it looks more like a photograph?
Best regards,
Doug
Many years ago, in Las Vegas, while I was attending a standards meeting (well, they had to be held someplace!), a colleague returned from lunch excited at having been able to buy, very cheap, a famous-brand (for then) wrist watch. I looked at its face. Sure enough, there was the manufacturer's name: Hawilton.So what is genuine nowadays? Genuine Nagahyde or genuine "fake" watches. For the latter, the guy, (in the underground market in Istanbul with that sign), must have thought that Fake was brand like Nike!
Thanks for that link. The work is lovely.Several contemporary art photographers produce imagery that might be characterized as such. German photographer Loretta Lux comes immediately to mind as an example.
I have to apologize for having started this wild goose chase as a matter of irony.to simulate a photograph one could just take a photograph... what a concept!
Why start with a painting? Why not just take a photo of the scene you painted?
I did understand it as irony. But the whole point of making a photo look like a painting is that a painting is time consuming to create. A photo is not, at least not in the capture sense of it. Plus, "painting filters" were made for photographers, or for people who start with a photo and want "something else". People who have paintings don't care to turn them into photos!!!Hi, Alain,
I have to apologize for having started this wild goose chase as a matter of irony.
I had been concerned that many images submitted here, actual photographs, had been so severely "tonemapped" that I would sarcastically say, "that almost looks like a photograph".
It was just one more step in my irony to ask whether there was a way that these could be made to look like actual (that is to say, "normal") photographs.
Best regards,
Doug
I did understand it as irony. But the whole point of making a photo look like a painting is that a painting is time consuming to create.
A photo is not, at least not in the capture sense of it [a painting]. Plus, "painting filters" were made for photographers, or for people who start with a photo and want "something else". People who have paintings don't care to turn them into photos!!!