››D Y N A MIC RANGE› ›kelbyone.com045Step One: The essential ingredient for this
project is the ParticleShop plug-in, and it can
be purchased from Corel Painter. If you al-
ready have the plug-in, like I mentioned, Corel
released version 1.5, and this update includes
some new technology for creating a painterly
appearance for a photo.
Step Two: For this project, I’ve chosen
this fun image of a young woman hold-
ing balloons from Adobe Stock. Begin
by opening the image in Photoshop and
converting the Background layer to a smart
object by going to Layer>Smart Objects>
Con vert to Smart Object.
[KelbyOne members may download the
file used in this tutorial at http://kelbyone
.com/magazine. All files are for personal
use only.]
Step Three: Before beginning with the simu-
lated brushstrokes, there are a couple of things
that need to be done. First, the smaller details
should be removed with the Smart Blur filter. Go
to Filter>Blur>Smart Blur. Set the Quality to High,
the Radius at 3.0, and the Threshold at 25. (Note:
For the low-res practice file, set the Threshold to
12.5.) Then click OK to apply the blur.
©Adobe Stock/Africa Studio