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Dipping a paintbrush into a photograph

Dipping a paintbrush into a photograph

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Dipping a paintbrush into a photograph

Digital painting apps, which have a tendency to emulate traditional media, also have another side that I describe as through the looking glass. This aspect of digital paint enables techniques that are not possible in traditional media. One such technique is what I refer to as dipping a paint brush into a photograph. The mediums of painting and photography have pretty much been mutually exclusive of one another. Sure, you can paint on a photograph, but the high detail photograph and the overlay brush strokes remain distinctly separate. In the realm of digital painting, it is possible to have the expressive characteristics of a brush interact directly with a photograph surface. Imagine a wet oil painting that happen to be in the exact configuration of a photographic image. Now, take a dry brush with all of it's expressive nuances and apply this brush to the surface of the wet oil paint. Using this brush, you can modulate the precise photographic character of the wet paint imagery into…

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