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    From a photo to a Fine Art
    From a photo to a Fine Art
    From a photo to a Fine Art
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    From a photo to a Fine Art

    By Jana Mänz

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    How to create a painted effect in Photoshop with textures
    Textures: the endless world of imagination

    We love textures. You too? Oh, of course you do! Definitely.
    Don't you also admire those delicate, romantic floral images you find from time to time when browsing the web? Airy, light and incredibly fragile formations - impossible to find something like this in the nature. Those formations look like paintings but they are not. They are photographs.

    As well, the romantic ocean views evoke our longing for the sea and the beach. Still, other photos that look as if they had sprung from the distant past. Painted on canvas, painted on wood, painted in times of the romantics.

    As different as all those pictures may be, they have two things in common: First, they are layered with one or more textures and digitally retouched. Secondly, the intention was not to improve the picture, to let it look “like it was“, but to transform an imagined reality into visible truth.

    Before pictures can turn into art, the question of “How do I work with textures at all?” presents itself. Because art and skill are invariably linked, and skill is derived from knowledge, the first requirement you have to attain is this knowledge.

    But you don't have to reinvent the wheel. That's the reason why we created this little e-book for you. We have compiled lots of tips, inspiration, a step-by-step-guide and interviews on the topic of “texture”.

    Content

    1. Introduction
    2. Knowledge: Textures in arts
    3. Nora Peinzger Artworks
    4. Why we use textures?
    5. Which subject is qualified for textures?
    6. How do you find suitable textures?
    7. Quality of the textures
    8. Layer functions and other useful tools
    9. Preparative image editing
    10. Step by step for beginners: Your first texture – Photoshop tutorial with pictures and textures
    11. Step by step tutorial for advanced: A complex layer-composition with textures
    12. Interview Bea Rautenberg, “Mixed Media Photography” artist
    14. How to: Black Beauty – dark textures
    15. The sensual, emotional moment
    16. How to create own textures and were to find textures?
    17. Closing Word
    18. Blending Modes in Photoshop
    19. Link tips
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateJun 10, 2015
    ISBN9783959265423
    From a photo to a Fine Art

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      From a photo to a Fine Art - Jana Mänz

      From a photo to a Fine Art

      How to create a painted effect in Photoshop with textures

      Contents

      1. Introduction

      2. Knowledge: Textures in arts

      In the ancient world

      From the 17th century

      The 20th century

      3. Nora Peinzger artworks

      The artist

      Art – the creative mind – the dream

      Photography – painting with light

      4. Why we use textures?

      5. Which subject is qualified for textures?

      6. How do you find suitable textures?

      7. Quality of the textures

      Layers in image editing programs

      8. Layer functions and other useful tools

      What are layers?

      9. Preparative image editing

      10. Step by step for beginners: Your first texture

      11. Step by step tutorial for advanced

      Photoshop guide with pictures & textures

      1. Preliminary

      2. Editing

      Ideas for continuative process steps

      12. Interview Bea Rautenberg, Mixed Media Photography artist

      13. Secrets of nature

      14. How to: Black Beauty - dark textures

      How should we start?

      How to photograph a motif with a dark background?

      Instruction

      15. The sensual, emotional moment

      16. How to create own textures and were to find textures?

      Textures from internet

      Photographing textures

      Scanning textures

      Drawing textures

      17. Closing Word

      18. Blending Modes in Photoshop

      1. Normal & Dissolve

      2. Darken, Multiply, Color Burn, Linear Burn, Darker Color

      3. Lighten, Screen, Color Dodge, Linear Dodge, Lighter Color

      4. Overlay, Soft Light, Hard Light, Vivid Light, Linear Light, Pin Light, Hard Mix

      5. Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, Divide

      6. Hue, Saturation, Color, Luminosity

      Link tips

      Imprint

      1. Introduction

      We love textures. You too? Oh, of course you do! Definitely.

      Don't you also admire those delicate, romantic floral images you find from time to time when browsing the web? Airy, light and incredibly fragile formations - impossible to find something like this in the nature. Those formations look like paintings but they are not. They are photographs.

      As well romantic ocean views evoking our longing for the sea and the beach. But they do not evoke the desire for the ocean we know, the one in which we swim in. It's not the beach where our children play, it's not the ice cream, french fries or suntan lotion realm, where the sun is burning, the sand is everywhere to scratch us, and the sinking sun is a sign for us to pack our stuff together and leave.

      Rather those pictures are about the longing for distance , for freedom, and dreaming of far off places. They are dreams of lonesome beach-walks, of the fresh breeze, and of the scent of salty ocean air that surrounds us, the screeching of the Seagulls, and the peaceful sound of the waves lapping up on the beach as they deposit small treasures on the sand. The longing for eternity and freedom.

      At the other end of the scale, there are dark, sinister or haunting images. A cool shiver runs up your back and gives you goosebumps while looking at those photographs. They seem both eerily beautiful and Melancholic. We almost automatically look out for the sad White Lady who, at any moment, could come out of the shadows.

      Still, other photos that look as if they had sprung from the distant past. Painted on canvas, painted on wood, painted in times of the romantics. Here, too, it is only to realize at a second glance that those pictures are photographs and not paintings.

      Another leap, again a trip down memory lane, again different pictures. You feel sweet melancholy when you look at those pictures. The colors are faded and yellowed, creases are visible, dirty, faded and scratched pictures, but they are nostalgia in it’s purest form. Truly they are really not that old, they are brand-new; shot by a digital camera.

      As different as all those pictures may be,

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