Photo Painting – Crosby T. Wehr @ LA Models

Here is my interpretation and take on the “photo-painting” style. There are many variants of the “photo-paiting” style and these styles fell under the umbrella of utilization and combination of techniques such as local contrast enhancement (LCE) and dodging and burning (D&B) or “painting with light” (PWL). Experiment and you’ll find your own “photo-painting” style.

I lit Crosby with my 22″ Speedotron Beautydish with a 35-degree honey comb grid.

Crosby T. Wehr @ LA Models

1). Download my layered 8-Bit Tif file to study the layers. Crosby-2-205-Tutorial.tif

2) Looking at the layers should be self-explanatory.

3) The interesting layer is the “R-Channel Find Edges.”

4) CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + E to merge all the layers onto a new layer and name it “Merged Layer” for naming purposes.

5) Click and select “Merged Layer,” and go into the channel palette and duplicate the Red channel. You should see “Red copy” in the Channels palette.

6) To the “Red copy,” apply the “Find Edges” filter located Filter –> Stylize –> Find Edges.

7) The “Red copy” will resemble a pencil sketch after executing the filter. Run a Gaussian Blur at R=1 and then auto level.

At this point, an edge mask was created. CTRL + click on “Red copy”. Click on the RGB composite image in the Channels Palette and CTRL + J to copy onto a new layer. Name this “R-Channel Find Edges.”

9) Set this layer to Luminosity blending mode and run an Unsharp Mask (USM) at 50,30,0. Vary the settings here depending on taste and one’s own image.