jpaulNotAvailable Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 sorry for the vague description, but here's what i'd like to do. i have an image of an oil painting. and i'd like to simply turn it into a normal drawning. my main issue is the visible painting paste tracks. i tried using the blur filter, but that didn't work. there's not enough sharpness. any idea about how to achieve this Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactilis Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 4 hours ago, jpaulNotAvailable said: sorry for the vague description... any idea about how to achieve this It would help to see the image of the oil painting. At the moment you are asking people to be mind readers! Can you upload your image to imgur or postimages.org and paste the link here. Also, please explain what you mean by "a normal drawing". Do you mean a pencil sketch? A charcoal sketch? An ink sketch? A pastel drawing? There are many possibilities. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpaulNotAvailable Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 yes this is correct there are many drawnings types. as i'm not a drawning expert i forgot this. i just want to edit the followimg image so that the topography isn't visible anymore. if you look at the image up close, you'll see that there is some topography caused by the painting paste Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Hello @jpaulNotAvailable You could use Color Sketch first at default settings. Then use Soften Portrait to follow: 1 Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactilis Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 5 hours ago, jpaulNotAvailable said: if you look at the image up close, you'll see that there is some topography caused by the painting paste It's still not clear exactly what you want? The painting is 'Lie to me' by Lana Frey and it looks as though you (or someone) has taken a small/low resolution version of the image and resized it to be larger. Looking the the top of the woman's shoulder, you can see a lot of compression artefacts (which I've deliberately enhanced here): Is that what you mean by "some topography caused by the painting paste"? Higher resolution (i.e. higher quality) copies of the image are available that don't have the artefacts: They also include the artist's signature, which for some reason has been erased from your image. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpaulNotAvailable Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 this is a very interesting point. copyright respect/infrigment is very important in what i'm doing (video game development). the short version is that i own the rights to use that image. i conceed that the explanation is still a bit unclear. But i'm not anglo-saxon so maybe i express myself not perfectly. so last try i don't want the image to look like an oil painting at all. today i'll try Pixey solution, and see how it goes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Welsh Yellow Cheddar Posted February 3 Solution Share Posted February 3 Hello @jpaulNotAvailable, Perhaps you could use the "Median plugin". Steps: 1. Duplicate your image and run the Median effect on the upper layer. 2. Erase with a soft brush the areas that you want to keep sharp, like the eyes, eye brows, nostrils, lips and teeth. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpaulNotAvailable Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 (edited) Thank yhou very much. will try all this tomorrow. been a little busy today 👍 Edited February 3 by jpaulNotAvailable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 Another option: Try Effects > Color > Quantize. Set the Dithering level to zero, then progressively lower the number of colors. When you get down to a color count of less than six most of the detail will be reduced/blended into neighboring regions. 2 Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpaulNotAvailable Posted February 4 Author Share Posted February 4 (edited) Welsh yellow cheddar solution gives satisfying results. so i'll stick with that one. i struggled a little bit because you need to have a paint.net up to date for the plugins to work. but i finally got it Thanks to all Edited February 4 by jpaulNotAvailable 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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