Using Adobe photoshop how do you get the effect of broad brush paint
strokes over a graphic with the background showing through?

Hello,

I found these websites which have tutorials on how to accomplish this
artistic effect.

Photoshop Brush Strokes - Giordan on Graphics:
http://www.webreference.com/graphics/column16/

A good column on the built in brush stroke filters with examples on
how each affect a test image. Juding from your question, you might be
most interested in this one:

The Angled Strokes Filter:
http://www.webreference.com/graphics/column16/3.html

If you wish to persue more advanced techniques, or have more control
over your simulated brush strokes, I would recommend commercial
plugins such as Deep Paint (see gallery link below) which offer a much
higher quality product. But if you're an enthusiast, the filters above
should do the trick.


Additional Links:

Deep Paint Image Gallery (beautiful works of art):
http://www.us.righthemisphere.com/community/gallery/deep_paint_gallery.php3


Search Strategy:

"brush stroke"  photoshop effect on google:
://www.google.com/search?q=%22brush+stroke%22++photoshop+effect


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skermit-ga

Great answer as it happened my question had to do with Cutouts, but I
couldn't have worked this out with the answer which was sent to me.

Hi:

Sorry slipped on the <enter> button.

Once your picture is open, create a new layer

From Layer drop-down---> select "New"

Select brush from your toolkit, set the size.

In Photoshop 7.0 there is an opacity setting near your brush size,
it's default is 100%, which is opaque.

Change it to around 30%, and you will be able to see the bottom layer.

If you don't like it, there is always the undo. Just experiment.

Have Fun!

Colin-ga

You're welcome pebble-ga!