Photoshop How-To: Making a Painting from a Photo

How-Tos: Written by Barbara Bouton Gary David Bouton J. Scott Hamlin Daniel Will-Harris Mara Zebest Nathanson Robert Stanley on March 12, 2003

When is a painting not a painting? When it's a photograph that's been "brushed up" in Photoshop. Here's how to combine transform an ordinary image into something, um, special using Photoshop's lighting and brush effects.