 Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop 2022 tutorial in this one I'm going to show you how to create any image into a Van Gogh style portrait or Van Gogh style image Van Gogh style image come on greatest use your words all right what am I talking about well here is an example of the final product and here is the image that we started with this image is terrible it's got very little contrast it's dull it's gray it has very very little it's just not a great image we've turned this into this and I'm going to show you how to do it so let's get started all right guys the first step is we're going to get to work on the image and we're going to start making some major adjustments the one that we want to start with is we want to work on the lightest and darkest parts of the image because they're just there's just no contrast and there's just very very poorly shot so we're going to go to the adjustments here you don't see it just up here you'll see adjustments we're going to create an adjustment layer and we're going to work on the curves first so we're going to left click on curves and presto not a lot happened don't worry about it holding down the alt key or the option key if you're on a mac left click on the auto button and you're going to see it open up auto color correction options this is what we want it's default set to enhance brightness of contrast we want to find dark and light colors make sure that is selected and we also want snap neutral mid tones so we're working on the lightest and darkest parts of the image okay click that and we're on our way the next step we're going to make another adjustment layer but this one is a vibrance layer we basically want to brighten the party here van go used a lot of bright colors as you probably are well aware and this image is not bright at all so we want to take the vibrance from zero to one hundred yeah we're going all the way with this one let's get going all right now we're cooking with fire the next step is we want to add in some paint we want to put in some dobs of paint and it's going to look a little synthetic but that's okay we're going to work on that at the end but we want to add in like a sun so i'm going to go ahead over here to the brushes tool i'm going to left click and select my brush and then you'll notice that i have a brush uh let's see which one did i choose i've got like a rough round bristle brush but either way uh whatever brush you choose i'm going to go with this one if you want to see what brushes are available left click up here on this little folder with the brush on it and then head over to brushes and for me brushes is located right here i'm using a rough round bristle brush which is kind of the one i want you will notice though if you don't see that in your list of brushes and you can search right here you can go to your legacy brushes and then just drop it down and then you'll see your legacy brushes and then underneath you'll see thick heavy brushes and then you'll see rough round bristle if you do not see that and it's possible depending if you've had like a recent update left click on this little hamburger menu and make sure that legacy brushes which is down here is selected that way you'll have access to these brushes okay a lot of time a lot of talking on the brushes we've got our rough round bristle brush selected now what i want to do now is i want to add this to a new layer so i'm going to click here on my vibrance layer now i'm going to hit the plus key and the layer is at the top of the layer stack beauty i'm going to draw in the sun first so i'm going to go over here and you're going to see that i've got white and white selected you probably see black and white which is fine i'm just going to click on the little white foreground color and i'm going to select a bright yellow color because again he used very bright colors and for this one maybe we'll put the sun right here so we're using we're just drawing in this rough bristle we brush sun and you know it makes sense because the sun sort of coming through the clouds there in the image okay good now i'm going to go ahead and click on that again and now i'm going to select white for the white we're going to add in some white dobs into the sky and again this doesn't look quite right don't worry about it these are just pretty kind of randomly selected so i'm just going to make one there and maybe one there and i don't know something like that this will look correct in the final copy okay so now we've got some brushes we've added two adjustment layers and we're on our way the next step is i'm going to go up here to the selection tool or the move tool part of me and i'm going to turn all of these layers into one layer so i'm going to click on layer one i'm going to hold down the shift key go to all four layers and i'm going to convert them into a smart object right click on them once you've selected all of them and just go to convert to smart object okay guys we are on our way let's get going all right the next step is we're going to go ahead and start adding in some distortions and filters so now that it is a smart object we can apply filters to the image non-smart objects not so good so here we go the first one we want to do is we want to give it a glass effect so head up to the top here filter and then let's see where glass is filter filter gallery and then for for glass effect you'll see it's under distort all right for the glass i'm going to go with a stylization okay well actually you know what let's go ahead over that first so glass glass filters applied now we're going to go ahead and just add the distortion to 10 the smoothness to 12 i like that and very importantly you want to make sure that canvas is selected the texture is usually selected by blocks at the beginning this is the default switch that to canvas scaling at 100% and presto left click on okay and we've added a nice little cool glass effect to it again we're still far off from where we want to be but we're on our way we're going to add in a second filter and the next one is oil paint we're going to go up here to filter we're going to go down to stylize filter stylize oil paint okay good oil paint is loading up and now if you look here in the little preview section you're going to see some shades of van go you know where this is going okay good stuff stylization i'm going to go with a stylization of 10 i'm going to go with a cleanliness of 3.5 a scale of five and a bristle detail of 10 lighting angle minus 60 this is the default that's just fine and shine i've got it set to 1.2 for this one all right left click on our way here we go comes the filter okay now you guys are seeing the van go action happen we're not obviously there but we're getting closer good stuff we're going to go ahead now and convert this and add in some more filters all right so the next step here is you're going to notice that i've gone ahead and clicked on the smart filter and now we're going to go ahead and work on those paint dobs that we added on here we go we're going up here to the left side we're going to go to the quick selection tool so you can do that by accessing it by pressing w and then i'm just going to go ahead and roughly select those little dobs that we added in and you'll notice that there's a plus so i am doing a positive selection and i'm just positively selecting these little pieces and little paint that i added in all right cool and again very importantly do notice that i was selected on the filters now i'm going to go to edit and i'm going to go to fill and i'm going to fill these with black watch this fill fill black okay when you do that you'll see that these images now all of a sudden have those black swirls or the paint in the they don't look like they're just you know pixelated paint added on they've got texture to them that was the effect that we were going for awesome let's keep going awesome all right guys now we want to brighten this up again so right now you're going to see here that the paint dobs are still selected so i'm going to go to select deselect so that everything selected or everything isn't selected in that matter and now we're going to go ahead and brighten the whole image up a little more so how do we do that same way we did at the beginning we're going to go to the adjustments layer here we're going to create a new vibrance adjustment layer left click on that and the vibrance is again going to go to 100 we are going all the way with this we want this to look nice and bright beauty now if you're looking at this you're going to say hey this is starting to look a little bit like a van go painting again these are a little bit blown out here we'll get to that in a minute but yes we are on our way all right guys the next step is again we're going to be dodging and burning so dodging and burning allows you to selectively brighten and darken areas of the image now this doesn't look too bad but let's go ahead and let's take some of the trees and some of the forest and let's just brighten that up a little bit I just feel like it's a bit too dark for my liking so how am I going to do that I'm going to go over here I'm going to select the dodge tool I'm going to increase the brush size considerably I've got the exposure set to 40 and I'm working on the mid tones and let's just go ahead and you'll see here that as I just left click on it and again this is very broad I'm going ahead and just brightening some of the trees here so we're giving it a little bit of a brighter look and you know what that looks pretty good to me if I want to darken maybe the skies a bit I can add I can switch to the burn tool and then I'm going to go ahead and darken it just a little bit we're working on the highlights here but if we're working on yeah let's work on the highlights and let's just go ahead and see what happens here okay a little bit darker again season this to your taste that one actually didn't work because that went into the mountains I'll commands it something like that okay I mean oh that's a bit too much we're going to go exposure down to 40% and let's just go ahead and darken it a little bit again this is totally up to you how dark and bright you want each part of the area but I want you to know that this is an option for you now let's go ahead and warp it all right guys we're getting close to the end here let's go ahead now and make a warp adjustment to this so what you want to do is you want to hit command T or control T and that gives you the basic transform tools when you open those tools you're going to see up here you'll see a switch between free transform and warp modes we are going into warp mode left click on that and then on the left side you're going to see a few options you've got different default warps that you can apply and the wave warp is one that works quite well for this but I'm going to show you how to do it manually so that you can get it exactly how you want it you're also going to see here that there's a grid the grid is default but you also see that there is a 5x5 grid this chops this thing into 25 equal rectangle pieces and you can go ahead now and adjust them now before I start making adjustments keep in mind that van Gogh had very swirly very warp type look to it it had nice swirly look so I'm going to see here what I'm doing I'm going ahead I'm pulled it and I'm torsting I'm twirling it so I'm pulling it a little bit and then I'm twirling it so we're warping it this way but we're swirling it I'm going to go ahead and make some small adjustments here and you will notice that again this is a swirl warp we're warping it but swirling I know I said that twice but can't can't say enough that's exactly how van Gogh made his art so I'm just going to go ahead and do this manually a little bit here I don't want to take too much time here I'm going to warp it I'm going to swirl it and you guys are going to be able to see how this works so that when you're doing your own shots this is how you do it again I'm going to twist this right and then maybe I'll twist this one left again season it to your own taste these are slight little adjustments go ahead and make this one I want to warp and swirl it left and this one I'm going to swirl a bit to the right there we go and then you're going to see here I've made some swirls and I'm going to left click out of it and presto actually you know what I'm going to go ahead and apply it so just click on this check mark to apply and that will apply the warping beauty now we're going to go to the final stroke or the final option to go ahead and make this just look exactly like a van Gogh painting all right final two things we're going to do the first one adjustments and you know where this is going we're going back to the vibrance and we're going to jack the vibrance up to a hundred again we're making this even brighter you see what we're doing here beauty that's the final vibrance adjustment layer and now we're going to go ahead and thicken the strokes and the way we do that again going to make sure the final bottom layer is selected we're going to go ahead and apply a final oil paint layer and how do we do that filter where was it hiding under was it under distort nope it was under stylized wasn't it yeah filter stylized oil paint and presto for the last one though the stylization isn't jacked up to ten we're dropping it all the way down to point nine we want the thick brush stroke appearance so let's go to point nine we're going to put the cleanliness all the way up to nine nine point yeah nine point two we're going to go nine point two nine point three let's go nine point two whatever it doesn't matter for that much the scale is going up to ten and the bristle detail detail is staying at ten and the shine is going to about two now let's click okay and see what we got hey oh there we go guys this is the van go painting that we started with remember we started with this over here oh no this one here never mind we don't even have that one loaded don't even worry about it it was ugly we started with an ugly image as you can remember and we created this out of it guys this is how you create a van go painting from any old image that's it guys thanks for watching tutorial I have a ton more stuff coming up stay tuned