3 Techniques to turn your Photos to Paintings
Turning your photos in to paintings give your pictures an interesting, painterly look. Prints of these photos may also sell better as people are looking for paintings to hang on their walls. In this blog post, I’ll cover 3 techniques…
Why is the Filter Gallery Greyed Out in Photoshop and How to Fix it
The Photoshop Filter Gallery provides access to numerous artistic filters to give your photos a creative and artistic look. It can be a lot of fun to create works of art from your images using the Filter Gallery. But, sometimes…
Painting Flowers using the Oil Style in AKVIS ArtWork
In this blog post, I will give step by step instructions on how to make an Oil Painting from a photograph of flowers using AKVIS Artwork 7.0. I will also provide the final settings that I used to create the…
Bring your Photos Back to Life Using the Oil Painting Technique in AKVIS ArtWork
I took this sunrise photo in Cuyahoga Valley National Park and I just didn’t like it. I must have processed it for 2 hours. It just sat on my hard drive. I didn’t upload it to my website or post…
Using the Oil Paint Filter in Photoshop for your Nature Photography
Photoshop has a built in Oil Paint filter that nature photographers can use to add a painterly feel to their images. The filter is easy to use and gives a lot of flexibility in customizing your painting. In this blog,…
The Value of Ranking Your Photos
I recently attended a photography workshop in Yosemite. For an icebreaker for the workshop, we had to share our 10 favorite photos for the group. I had never ranked my photos so this was somewhat of a daunting task. However, it turned out…
