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Turn photos into paintings

Photoshop’s Filter Gallery is packed full of filters designed to mimic artistic paint effects, such as the Watercolor filter.You can modify filter properties, but your digital art will still look like it has been created by a filter, rather than by an artist’s manually placed brush strokes. However, here we are going to show you how to create a unique hand-painted effect.

By placing semi-transparent brush strokes on a layer mask you can gently reveal a photograph’s colors and tones as washes of

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