Photoshop CS5: Oil Painting with pixel Bender

One of the cool new tools of Adobe Labs is Pixel Bender. This free extension lets you one of a series of filters that with the extension to your images in Photoshop CS5 will apply. But that's not all-Adobe also offers a simple interface for Pixel Bender, which allows you to create your own filters. As a result, build a community around Pixel Bender filters with custom made users to share with others. In this post I'll show you how to get started with Pixel Bender.

You will find the pixel Bender extension here: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/pixelbenderplugin.html.Make sure that the version that corresponds to your operating system and version of Photoshop CS5 (32 or 64-bit). enlargement is a. mxp file, and you need to install Adobe Extension Manager.

You can install the extension by double-clicking the file with Adobe Extension Manager.If you are running Windows Vista or Windows 7, you must use the Adobe Extension Manager run as administrator.So, from the start menu, locate the entry Adobe Extension Manager, click the right mouse button and select run as administrator. the reason for this is that the extension be placed in a folder available only if you must have administrative privileges. If you try to manually start the program, choose file > Install Extension, and then locate and select the extension that you just downloaded.
Accept the license terms, and the extension will automatically be installed in the correct Photoshop CS5-program folder.
When you are finished, close the extension manager, Photoshop close and open it.

Pixel Bender will not work on images larger than 4096 x 4096 so your image resizing, if necessary. If you want, you can add an image to a smart object converted before you apply a filter.
With pixel Bender-open an image and select filter > Pixel Bender > Pixel Bender Gallery.Here you will see a list of filters in the drop-down list box that are looking at CircleSplash. Select the filter oil paint and then adjust the settings.Styling, you can change the length and angle of the brush strokes – the larger values best look.Clean the softness of the effect is adapted and usually looks good on about 7 or 8. Colorization more or less, you can apply color to the image.BrushScale changes the size and the length of the dark brush strokes-a small value indicates dun lang lighter brush strokes and a larger value shorter thick dark brush strokes. BrushContrast will the contrast of the brush strokes and probably better can be left on a value of 1.
In short, adjust the sliders until you get a result that you want.If you are not sure how a slider affects the image drag it all the way to the left or right to see the effect. from there.
When you are finished, click OK to apply the result to the image. Unlike most filters those images to look like an oil painting painting to convert, this is a good in identifying edges in the image, so that the painting looks more realistic.

Helen Bradley is a lifestyle journalist who her time between the real and digital world, choosing the best of both. you can display for its Web site at helenbradley.com. She writes and produces video instruction for Photoshop and digital photography for magazines and online providers worldwide. She wrote four books on Photo crafts and blogs on projectwoman.com.

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