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Author: Crystal_Russell, Contributing Editor
| The art history brush. Sounds like it should be fun, huh... or maybe just confusing. Well, whatever you think, it is a simple way to get great painterly effects fast. Come along on this demonstration and I'll show you how. The art history brush, as well as the history brush, are tools in Photoshop. Both will reproduce images that are captured in snapshots in the history palette (which I will explain later on). The history brush will reproduce it pixel by pixel, remaining 100% faithful. Kinda boring though. The art history brush, on the other hand, adds a special flair to the image. It will reproduce the image with painterly strokes of color ranging from just a dab to loose and curly. Now, we could just take a photo, run the art history brush over it and say 'Voila!' ... but our goal is to create a work of art, not just to copy a picture. |
| This will be the photo I'll be working on. You can choose your own photo or follow along with this one. Either way, the technique is the same. |  |
| The first step with this image is to desaturate it. Go to the Image menu, then Adjust, Desaturate. Now the image is probably looking pretty dull. Fix that by going to the Image menu, Adjust, Equalize ... or Adjust, Brightness/Contrast. Choose one depending on how you would like your image to look. I wanted fairly dark foliage so I chose Brightness/Contrast then adjusted brightness to +15 and contrast to +15 also. Next change the size of the image. Image menu, Image Size. I shrunk my photo to 500w, 375h, 72ppi. Now to posterize. Image menu, Adjust, Posterize... to 5 levels. |  |
| Locate the layers palette. Drag the background layer onto the new layer button to make a copy (See first image below, new layer button is where the mouse hand is). Delete the original background layer by clicking on it then clicking on the trash button (beside the new layer button). We do this because the original background layer is locked and cannot be moved into a different layer position. Next click the new layer button to create a blank layer and then drag it underneath the background layer(see second image below). Finally, click on the top layer (background) and change the opacity to 50% (see final image). |
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| Now you can enlarge your image to the final size you want it. I made mine an 8.5X11 at 150 ppi but you can go as large or as small as you want. |
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