 Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop 2022 tutorial and this one I'm going to show you how to take any image like this one here and turn it into a painting using realistic brushstrokes and not only am I going to show you that I'm going to show you how to do it based on a reference artist or a reference image so this is a really cool technique and I think it's the best way to make photos into paintings. I'm going to delete this layer we're going to start from scratch. Here we go I've got an image here of this gentleman here it looks great and I want to turn it into a painting how do I do it I go up top here I go to filter and then I go to neural filters it's a new thing inside Adobe Photoshop 2022 I believe it was in the last one but I know it's in this one of course for sure so what we're looking for is a filter a neural filter called style transfer we want to click on that and then we want to toggle it on when we do that you're going to see a bunch of things here I've already gone ahead and downloaded a bunch of them and you can use them and use them as you know as potential options but in order to do this the best way in my opinion what you want to do now is you want to left click on custom up here and what we get the option to do is select an image this is the reference image this is the painting that we want it to look like so I've got a painting by Vermeer I'm going to left click here on this little button and then you'll see here that when I bring it in I've got yeah grow the pearl earring by a Johann Vermeer from 1665 this is the reference image that I want to use this is the painting style that I want it to look like when I hit that button you'll see that some effects here have been applied but it hasn't done a great job because it's gone a little over the top of some of the colors and stuff like that so now I'm just going to dial it in I'm going to drop this style opacity down to about 54% and again this is being calculated I believe in the creative cloud so it's using the adobe server so if it's slow don't panic it's it's it's pretty heavy duty I'm going to drop the detail down a little bit okay that's looking pretty good to me maybe do we want the strength up a bit or down what do you think let's go a little higher just so I can really sell you on the effect and then I'm going to black background blur a bit here I want the outsides to be blurry so that he is more in focus so the foregrounds in focus all right other than that I'll just quickly do one or two more things I'm going to increase the brightness I want this to be a bit of a brighter picture that looks a bit too much and then yeah because it's a painting well it's saturated a little bit there we go this looks great I'm going to left click on okay here and now watch we went from this which is our which is our picture to this painting that has a similar style to the reference image which is the girl with a pearl earring that's all there's to it guys is the best way to do it I think in photoshop 2022 thanks for watching tell more stuff coming up stay tuned