Useful tutorial for changing photograph into painting

1. Begin with a Photo.
If you like, you can right click on this image and use it. Bear in mind that the effect will appear different on images of different sizes. A larger image will produce finer lines.
The shadows are plugged up in this image so we will fix that right away.
2

If you have Photoshop CS or Photoshop Elements 3 Choose image>Adjustments>Shadow Highlight Move the amount slider as high as it will go. The image may look a little too bright in places but that doesn't matter.If you are using Photoshop 7 or less, choose the curves or levels setting to brighten the image.

3
Choose Filter>Stylize>Find Edges
All the edges will now become outlined. The color has gone a bit funky though. We'll fix that and finish the effect in the nex step.
4
Choose Edit>Fade Find Edges (This option will only be avaliable at this point, if you do anything else between Find Edges andd Fade, you won't be able to do this)
5
Change the blending mode to Luminosity. This will restore the colors (Don't close the dialog yet)
Here we have the image so far, with the original colors restored.
We will now blend this image with the original to get the result.
6
Reduce the Opacity slider until you are happy with the result.
I used 33 for this image.Click ok to apply
There you have it, in 3 easy steps we have created a classic.

(I got this toturial from the http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/sketch/sketch.htm)
You can play more stuff in the step 5, 6. You will have more fun , useful effects. It may be helpful for the project of Dim in the editing image process.





I got this scare, evil effect by change to exclusion mode in step5.

Paula Scher

I chose Paula Scher is my favourite master to study.

Paula Scher is very well-known typography. When she studied at Philadelphia's Tyler School of Art, the student were taught the Swiss International Style of typography: Helvetica on a grid. However, Paula don't like coloring within the lines. "I felt I was being forced to clean up my room," she says. Therefore, she became an illustration major. But she didn't draw well. By the great ideas, she was told to try illustrating with type. Then she learned about type in relation image. That’s the way Paula find the strong point and discovery what precious factor she had for design work. It is the idea. If you have it you are good designer. And if you know to apply, translate and communicate it to people, You are absolutely successful designer.
Paula made the typography work distinct. What did she do? The idea was to copy a typographic genre and turn into a record cover. In late 70s, she decided try to the new field besides imagery. Paula was also influenced Art Nourveau Constructivism of 30s. In the Jazz poster with accompanying album series identity, she combined a style of decorative typography and imagery together.
Let's convey one of her design to know more about her style. This is the quote of one interview about the Public theater poster design of the mid-1990s. In this work, her landmark identity fused high and low into a wholly new symbology for cultural institutions, and her recent architectural collaborations about the urban landscape have adopt the urban landscape as a dynamic environment of dimensional graphic design
"Tell me about the identity program you designed for the Public Theater.
George Wolf had clear, specific goals. The organization was intricately linked to Joseph Papp. To many people, it was the Joseph Papp Theater. The problem was, Joseph Papp is dead. So people thought the theater must be dead, too. That's a big image problem. Paul Davis's posters were part of the old image. Also, his work was linked in people's minds with Masterpiece Theater. His posters were amazing, but we needed to start over to rebuild the image of the Public Theater. It was a tall order, because Paul Davis was loved so well. I felt I couldn't use illustration at all. Going in a totally opposite direction, and focusing on type, was better, because no one would compare the new work with Paul Davis.
I did three logos--George Wolf picked the boldest one. Then there was the problem that the New York Theater Festival was better known than the Public Theater as a total organization. We made "PUBLIC" big so that people would know they were going to the Public. The theaters within the organization had to be subbranded. We made a round "stamp" for each theater that goes with the word "PUBLIC."
Does the Public Theater identity draw on any historical or vernacular references?
There are a number of influences. A little bit of Dada--the different scale relationships coupled with stamps. The Apollo Theater posters are another source. They were done in wood type on silkscreened grounds of gradated color. Instead of letterspacing to make everything fit, they changed the size of the letters. It was the language of printers. They were the ones doing it. What they wouldn't do, though, is change the axis of some of the words, as I have done in the Public Theater work."
(Source: http://www.designwritingresearch.org/essays/scher.html)

The source of inspiration

We created everything base on what we aware them by our sensitive sense. Those things observe us by many ways. Therefore, they enriched our experiences. Moreover, they contribute to our treasure of idea and creative which are aware as the potential factors in designers. Therefore, inspiration is the important factor of motivation for millions of designers with billions of art products. I awared this concept when I decided to jump into design field.
I have experienced in some fantastic design product. I always wonder why they can imagine those things. However, I discovered that their ideas also rise from life which I also experiences.
Let’s see some designers which make me discovered this notion of inspiration. It is not very miraculous and impossible with us. Firstly, let’s visit the world of inspiration of William Morris- A English designer of 19th century. I had some research on his designs.

Trellis wallpaper

Trellis - It is one of the first patterns of wallpaper designed by Morris. He inspired this idea from the scene of the garden at Red House where he lived. Most of his design is inspired from the nature. Therefore, they often call him is the “green man”.
So as we saw, Morris got the inspiration from everything around him. The nature created the interest for his motivation of creating the ideas.
Next, we will see another proof about the source of inspiration. If you have watched “AniMatrix” animation film, I am sure that you had to aware that some of image in this animation film you have seen in somewhere.

Look like matrix film huh?

The director base on the Matrix ideas, then he create 9 shorts films to explore the incredible world of the Matrix in anime style.

(Look the bigger images in http://dusl.x-y.net/2ndpart1_1.html)

This is the quotation of director of Animatrix in second renaissance.
“The introduction of symbolize, a gate leading to visual archives. When I design it and it reflected my tastes…I had a vision of Mandala in my mind. Mandala is meant to be something that includes everything. I thought it fits to the idea of this place where the knowledge is store. I also create the character …base on traditional Japanese Buddhist pictures.”
On the whole, all ideas of designers are like the reflection of existed things in both visible and invisible object. We can think that they inspired and then created the icon or symbol in abstract way base on the normal things around you. However, although their ideas are influence by something, we can not negate their creativeness is spectacular.
Therefore, I think, we have more experiences, we have more inspiration, and then we have more ideas and creativeness. Goodness for our job!