In today’s Workbench, we’ll explore a marvelous creative use for CS5′s vastly improved Refine Edge dialog. We’ll use the new Edge Detection features to quickly (and non-destructively) create photo edges that look like flowing paint. Amazing!
Thanks to Lesa Snider for inspiring this tutorial and thanks to JJ Raia for your submission to the Photoshop Workbench.
To learn how JJ created this image, as well as my workflow to create a similar look in Photoshop, please view Photoshop Workbench 249.
Lol…quite amazing.
hi mr Mark,
excellence tut as always.
but please tell us how u did painterly tree effects.
please make vedio.
bunch of thankssss
Another outstanding tutorial, always look forward to each one.
Agree with raz, please share with us how you did the effect in the scene it’s beautifully done!
With Sincere Appreciation
THANKS WITH YOUR KINDNESS TO SHARE
Great tutorial and like the others would like to see how to create the painterly effect.
This photo of a crabapple tree in spring bud was taken at the Holmdel Arboretum in NJ with a Mamiya 645 and 210mm lens. It was a multiple exposure (16) image shot wide open to limit the depth of field and each exposure was taken changing the focus in the scene. Some were taken with the closest buds of the tree in focus, blurring the background; and some with the background in focus blurring the closest buds.
jj raia
Great, I use this now on most of my photos. Thank you.
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