How to Create Vector Painting Photo Effect in Photoshop

In this photoshop photo effects tutorial, i will show you how to transform any photo into vector painting in photoshop using its native filters like unsharp mask, surface blur, diffuse, smart sharpen and reduce noise filters.

Vector Painting Effect Tutorial :

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How to Turn Photos into Vector Painting in photoshop

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Duplicate background layer

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Now we apply native filters to this layer to change photo into painting

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Step 1) Apply “UNSHARP MASK”

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Keep Amount: 125%, Radius: 3.8pixels and Threshold: 0

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Step 2) Apply Diffuse Filter

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Select Anisotropic Mode

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Step 3) Apply Reduce Noise

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Keep Strength: 10, Preserve Details: 0

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Color Noise: 0% & Sharpen: 65%

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Step 4) Add Surface Blur

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Keep Radius: 32pixels, Threshold: 12

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Step 5) Go to Filter Gallery and add Film Grain Effect

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Keep Grain: 0, Highlight Area: 2 and Intensity: 1

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Step 6) Apply Smart Sharpen

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Keep Amount: 90-100%, Radius: 2.1px, Reduce Noise: 82%

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Step 7) Add Small amount of noise

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Keep Distribution: Guassian, Amount: 0.1%, without Monochromatic

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Step 8) Finally apply unsharp mask

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Keep Amount: 69%, Radius: 0.5 pixels and Threshold: 0

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Lets add cinematic color grading to the effect

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Add Solid blue color layer

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Change blending to exclusion and reduce opacity around 20%

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Add Color Lookup and Select filmstock LUT

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That’s it. we’re done.

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