Aboriginal painting - part 1

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In this tutorial I’ll show you how to make an Australian Aboriginal painting. The aboriginals used topics like native animals, hunters, the image of their hand or weapons to decorate things. Most times in earthly colours, with lots of brown and orange. I used the face of a girl, so it wouldn’t look like a copy of their art. But with the same decorative dots, colours and spirit.

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avatar hilleke
hilleke

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step 1

Take a photo of your choice. Very detailed images don’t work very well, because you need big fields. I used a photo from www.sxc.hu.


step 2

Duplicate the background layer. Right-click on the layer, select duplicate layer.
Click ok.
The reason we make a new background layer is to make it easier to correct mistakes. You can always delete the new layer or make it invisible for a few actions.


step 3

Select the background copy.
Go to filter>artistic>cutout


step 4

Click ok.


step 5

Edit>fade cutout
Lower the opacity till the photo gets devided in clear parts.
Click ok.




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comments on this tutorial:

anzaar [lvl 6] [vp 1000] [vote medals 127]:
avatar anzaarVery Nice Tutorial
(320 days ago)
Claudiolky [lvl 41] [vp 1000] [vote medals 90]:
avatar ClaudiolkyGreat!!!
Instead that: Duplicate the background layer. Right-click on the layer, select duplicate layer.
Click ok.
CTRL + J !!!!!

(320 days ago)
kashflow2007 [lvl 15] [vp 999] [vote medals 25]:
avatar kashflow2007Unique, I never seen that style anywhere else. Nice!.
(319 days ago)
mymyb37 [lvl 28] [vp 2000] [vote medals 376]:
avatar mymyb37This is absolutely amazingly beautifull!
(319 days ago)
k3v [lvl 21] [vp 1000] [vote medals 233]:
avatar k3vNeat effect!
(319 days ago)
Emma81 [lvl 8] [vp 1000] [vote medals 160]:
avatar Emma81Nice
(319 days ago)
reem [lvl 1] [vp 0] [vote medals 0]:
avatar reemVery Nice Tutorial I never seen that style anywhere
(319 days ago)




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