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From a 3D Render to an Artistic Render

This tutorial will show you how to transform an Architectural 3D Rendering to an Artistic Rendering.

Often Architects and Real State brokers want to show an embellished version of the 3D Renderings of their projects or photos of existing houses or buildings.

GMX-PhotoPainter offer a variety of options to do such job, from Pen&Ink sketches to Crayon Paintings.

This tutorial will show you how to achieve the transformation, in this tutorial it was used also Adobe Photoshop for image compositing, borders extraction and unsharp masking.

The original image was generously supplied by 3D-Imaging.co.uk: a 3D Imaging Render CGI Graphics and 3D Animation Company.

Original Image

Blue Frog Original Photo
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The following result was obtained by first enhancing the borders using Photoshop, and then creating the Pen & Ink version in GMX-PhotoPainter. Learn more about Pen&Ink

Blue Frog Original Photo
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The following it's a GMX-PhotoPainter version of the original, no preprocessing was done. It was done with the preset "Pastel brushes > grainy"

Blue Frog Original Photo
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The next one, it's the result of combining the results of the Pen & Ink versions and the pastel version. The combination was done using layers in Adobe Photoshop. Learn more about how to superimpose borders.

Blue Frog Original Photo
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The following result was done by combining the Pen&Ink version with a version in watercolor done with GMX-PhotoPainter, as in (3), the combination was done using Adobe Photoshop.

  • Before creating the Watercolor version, it was brightened by a 50%.
  • The Watercolor version in GMX-PhotoPainter was done using the Watercolor preset: Large Strokes.
  • Finally the result of the combination of both image was postprocesed by an "Unsharp masking".

Here is the result:

What can be done with GMX-PhotoPainter?

It includes a Variety of Styles:

Oil Painting Oil-Painting
Pen and Ink Pen and Ink
Crayon
Watercolor

And user defined styles like Pastels, Van Gogh, Seurat, Pointillism, and many others.

By visiting the On-Line Users Gallery you can check what can be done with GMX - PhotoPainter.

How it works ?

As a real painting, GMX paintings are composed of many overlapped brushstrokes. You have the freedom to choose and combine your own settings, but at the same time will guide the process of painting by automatically choose the colors and directions of the brushstrokes.

To practically learn more about it:

Quick Tutorial on How to Transform a Digital Photo to a painting

 

GMX-PhotoPainter Boxshot

 

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