Character Portrait with Painterly Details

Cherokee John Slaughter - Detailed

Cherokee John Slaughter - Detailed

Just saw a really neat technique posted on Scott Kelby’s blog by his Guest Blog Wednesday person. It’s by Calvin Hollywood a Photoshop Artist located in Heidelberg, Germany. Calvin does some nice stuff and showed a technique he uses to add detail to his images, no he didn’t use any Topaz plug-ins, though you might be able to get the same or similar look using Topaz. His technique just uses PS, blend modes and the surface blur filter…I’m not going to repeat his info. Just go to the posting “It’s Guest Blog Wednesday featuring Calvin Hollywood” at Scot Kelby’s blog and view the video in the posting.

Click on the image in my posting to see it larger and check out Calvin’s neat technique…see you can do all this stuff without plug-ins or you can get some Topaz…

Sorry John, for making you look like a mean character but this image was screaming for this effect.

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