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Finishing Your Painting
After you finish working with the Smudge tool, you can finish your painting by adding two layers on top of the painting layer. The first layer gives your brush strokes the appearance of more texture in an interesting and — to my mind — rather clever way. The second layer adds a canvas texture to give the impression that the image was actually painted on canvas. Here’s how:In the Layers palette, select the painting layer.
Choose Layer>New>Layer Via Copy.This copies the selected layer. The new copied layer appears in the Layers palette above the original. Rename this copied layer if you want. For this example, I’ve renamed the layer Texture.
With the copied layer selected in the Layers palette, choose Filter>Stylize>Emboss.
Use the Emboss dialog box to select settings, as shown in Figure 24-5.
Figure 24-5: Select the Emboss settings to add more texture to the brush strokes.
Set the Angle to follow the direction of the lighting in your image. For the calla lily photograph that I’m using, the light is coming from the upper-left corner, so a setting of 135 degrees works well.
Set the Height to 5 pixels.
Set the Amount to 125%. (Higher settings add more texture.)
Click OK to close the Emboss dialog box.
In the Layers palette, select Overlay from the Blending Mode drop-down list.This blends the embossed paint strokes with the painting layer below. You can also use Soft Light blending mode for a softer appearance.
With the embossed layer still selected, click the Create New Layer button at the bottom of the Layers palette.A new, empty layer appears at the top of the layer stack. You can rename this layer, if you want. For this example, I’ve renamed the layer Canvas.
Select white as the Foreground color.A fast way to do this is to press D, and then press X.
Select the Bucket tool from the Toolbox and click in the image window.The new layer is filled with solid white, obscuring the painting below. You should now have five layers, as shown in Figure 24-6.
Figure 24-6: After adding the two new layers, you should have five layers in your painting.
Choose Filter>Texture>Texturizer.
Use the Texturizer dialog box to select the settings shown in Figure 24-7.
Figure 24-7: Select the settings that create a canvas texture.
At the right side of the dialog box, use the Texture drop-down list to select Canvas.
Set the Scaling to 200%.
Set the Relief to 15.
Use the Light drop-down list to select the direction from which the light comes in your image. For my example, because the light is coming from the upper left in the original calla lily photograph, I selected the Top Left option.
Click OK to close the Texturizer dialog box and apply the canvas texture to the white layer.
With the canvas layer selected in the Layers palette, use the Blending Mode drop-down list to select Soft Light.This blends the canvas layer with the rest of the painting.
Use the Opacity slider to lower the opacity until you can see only a hint of the canvas texture.Adjust the slider until you’re happy with the results. For my calla lily painting, a setting of 30% works pretty well, as shown in Color Plate 24-1 shows the calla lily painting in full color. Sit back and enjoy your painting!
Figure 24-8: After you add the embossed paint strokes and the canvas texture, the painting looks pretty good.
