How to turn your regular photo into a painting

hi everyone as promised i'm going to show you how to take a normal portrait and turn it into a painted like portrait and i did this using designscape and pixescape within my plus membership so we're going to start by opening up you're going to want two windows for design bundles so let's duplicate this one to my plus membership and then here we'll go into the plus membership on this page i'm going to start by opening pixescape that's the first program we're going to use and then we also want to open designscape so now we have both open and ready to use let's start with pix escape and we're going to upload the picture that we want to turn into the painted like look and here i have this one we're going to go with and there's that cute little fella and once he's uploaded you'll go over here to the little wand feature and here you'll see you have different options there's a painting like option the sketcher the digital art or the cartoonizer i've played around with all of them and my favorite is using the cartoonizer and this fx015 thumbnail so let's go ahead and turn them into a cartoon which i think looks like a painting so yay now he looks like a little painting so what we want to do is save this image i'm going to save it as a png and we'll want to name it so i'll name it painted lucky okay so now that we have him saved we're going to go over to the designscape software so we'll start by going to file open and we're going to choose painted lucky that's the one we saved and there he is he's so cute and i like to zoom in a little bit because i'm blind and also so i can get up in to those little small areas the little hairs there so let's zoom in a little bit there we go and then the tool you're going to use is the lasso tool i already have it set at magnetic lasso but you may need to right click and you have these three choices here so let's get it on magnetic lasso because it kind of sticks to them when you're going around the image and you're going to click where you want to start because we're going to click all the way around the image that we want to keep and then we'll delete the background so i'm going to start right here and then you'll see look it's magnetic to the image and you'll want to stop like a little bit and make these little nodes along the way because as you go around the curves sometimes it can't tell where it needs to stop just because if it's detailed like the little hairs you might have a few nodes like right in one spot and then you don't have to be perfect because we can clean this up when we're done i just try and get it as perfect as possible so i don't have to get the eraser out and then get even closer up to him oh look see i missed some of his hairs but i think it'll be okay because you won't be able to tell once we um crop him out of this background it'll look like it's supposed to be like that and if it doesn't there's a tool you can use to fix that as well and add some of his hair back so yeah this program is so fun i am always so scared to use photoshop and this is very comparable but the more and more i play in here i'm like oh this isn't so bad see how it wants to get and you when you go you can't really back up if you what you'll have to do is click and then you'll hit delete and it'll delete each last node that you did then you can kind of back up and pull your string back as you're deleting those nodes there we go now we can go around him a little bit better yay we made it all the way around and you'll see it's really fine but you can see where it's outlined him and then we're going to hit enter or you can double click oh no it didn't undo it there there he's come undone from that background so what i like to do from here you can make a new layer by clicking here to create a new layer or what you can do and then you can paste him in that new layer so let's go ahead and do that let's take lucky from this background we have him there ctrl c on a pc command c on a mac and then we'll go to our new layer and let's turn this layer off for a minute with the little eyeball that's what i clicked and we're going to paste him in to that new layer and isn't he so cute and it's pretty much there's really not much to touch up with this i mean i can see at the top a little bit we could do that so let me go ahead and show you if you do want to touch up how you can touch him up if you wanted to get rid of these little pieces you would use the eraser tool here and you can right click you may have it on background eraser i'm going to use the eraser tool and then i'm going to zoom in so i can see all of the parts that aren't as easy to see when you're zoomed out and see i think here we could clean him up a little bit so let me find my eraser and remember you can right click and change the size of your eraser so i'm gonna make it a little bit smaller so i don't get too much taken off then we have the outside here a little bit of this dark here but again it doesn't have to be perfect because it's going to be like a painting and you can have some of these edges on here and there's even like this white but that looks like highlight so again it's kind of cute just to leave it maybe like make some indentions here yeah i like him the way he is so my next thing is you can save it like this is a transparent png image or we can put them on a white background and i love putting them on a white background or even a black background because it makes the image pop so let me show you that let's go ahead and zoom back out okay so we're going to open a new file and we're going to make sure it's 300 dpi it does default to 72 and then we can name our project i'm going to put lucky's portrait and we have you can make the width and height any size you like or there's some pre-sized ones so if you wanted to send it off to be printed you could do that so let's do let's try an 8 by 12. i like that idea and the background here you can change it to black transparent custom add in your own background which is super cool if you had a really cool background you want to make him look like he's at the beach you could totally do that so we're going to create a white one and i'm going to go back over to my original file i'm going to click the arrow tool and i'm going to click on lucky and i'm on a mac so i'm going to hit command c if you're on a pc you can hit ctrl c that's going to copy him and we're gonna go back to this new file and we're going to control v or command v him in and there he is from here you can resize him and move him on the canvas however you like you can even center him it'll let you know where he's at center in the page which is super cool here if you go to the top image canvas size and image size is where if you change your mind and you want to resize those things you can do that now that we're done you can file and you can export it as a png a jpeg it won't export as an svg just because it's already flattened into a png but you can also put it as a pdf so i hope this has helped you if you have any questions please let me know this is one of my favorite features from designscape and pixescape using them both

Channel: Kalie's How-To's

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Keywords: designscape, pixascape, design bundles, portrait painting, designscapechallenge

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Length: 10min 2sec (602 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 18 2021