Turn a Photo into a still life painting using the Quick Clone Feature

BASIC LEVELTurn a photo into a still life painting using the Quick Clone feature.

The  logical  place  to  start  our  journey  in  cloning  is  with  the 

Quick  Clone  facility.  This  enables  you  to  prepare  an  image 

for  cloning  in  one  step.  Simply  open  a  photo,  go  to 

File>Quick  Clone  and  tracing  paper  will  appear  over  your 

image  and  the  Cloners  brush  category  will  automatically 

load.  In  our  example  here,  we  are  going  to  create  a  light 

covering  of  colour  texture  using  the  Chalk  cloner,  then  add 

some  broader  brushstrokes  with  an  Oil  cloner.  We’ ll  then 

bring  in  some  detail,  still  keeping  the  brushwork  loose.

The  aim  is  to  keep  the  picture  looking  more  like  a  painting 

than  a  photograph  as  we  add  brushstrokes  and  detail.  The 

temptation  is  always  to  paint  wherever  there  is  a  gap,  but 

the  trick  is  not  to  paint  too  much,  and  not  to  keep  all  the 

edges  in  the  image.  To  help  the  illusion  of  an  oil  painting, 

we  need  to  have  a  little  canvas  texture  showing  through 

here  and  there,  keeping  the  brushstrokes  free,  and  just 

adding  back  detail  here  and  there.