So this is an optional step: I used Sarsas big hair brushes and smudged the hair in bigger parts – that means that I just moved over the hair using the smudge tool and the hair brush in the same direction as the hair is. It belongs to you If you want to smudge the hair all the way or If you want to remain the sharpness in the photo – both is possible and looks different. In one of the last steps of the smuding itself I worked on the fine detail of the hair / hairline My next approach was the mouth, where I was streaking the outer and inner contours of the lips and smudged them accordingly while again using small circle like movements to homogenize the lips colors. First below the eye and then using a small-scale brush with 0.1 size again on the eye itself – then I moved to the upper part of the nose. This speeds things a little up…Īfter that I worked on the right eye. But this time I used a bigger scaled brush (0.2). Next I used the same brush and continued moving downwards. In my case I’ve first worked on the brown in the eye which I homogenized by smudging it using small cirle-like moves with the mouse.Īfter that I worked from the inside of the eye more and more to outside of the eye rings. Use a very small scale brush (0.10 or so) Now tighten the contoures on the eye – again and again until the real sharpness in the image fades away. Set the zoom of the image to 300% (maybe more). That also helps to mix the colors much nicer. Its better to work on the same part by doing the smear/smudge more often. By doing this you avoid to change too much in the image with a single click or drag with the mouse or tablet pen. Use the smudge tool and set the opacity of the tool to 50%. The apply the same filter with the same anisotropic smoothing settings as before again. But this time a tittle less then in step 3. Filter / GMIC (foung at the very bottom) / Anisotropic Smoothing. We’re going to use Anisotropic Smoothing. Now we’re going to get rid of some of the over-sharpened parts by making the more homogene areas blurry while letting the contoures remain in the photo. Don’t have a lot to consider on the oversharping – in the following steps we will smudge those oversharpended white contoures anyway. Thats necessary to get clearly visible contoures and edges. Next we continue to loose reality on the photo by oversharpen it. Use the curves tool found under Colors / Curves and apply a slight S-curve as shown besides. Because our final image is an art-like image the photo should be altered in a way that it doesn’t look like a photo anymore. In the first step you need to higher the contrast of the image. ( GMIC is really an excellent plugin extension to GIMP – you should have installed it all the time ))
#CTRL PAINT TUTORIAL PACK INSTALL#
In my example both brush packs are used.Īlso you need to install an external plugin: GMIC which has a filter that we need. Lindas brushes are used to smudge homogene and same-colored areas while Sarsas brushes are used on fine details like hair. There are 2 brush packs inside the zip-archive. Nevertheless lets start - and enjoy the tutorial! Tutorial detailsīefore you start please install the brushes attached to this step.
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But be aware - to master this technique you'll need lots of time - the more detailed you work the better will the outcome be. In this tutorial I show you the general steps that are needed to create such a painted looking effect. Motivation The so-called smudge paining is an arts technique where some parts of a photo are smudged in a special way to create an image that looks as it was painted.