Post by tonyw on Aug 28, 2022 9:10:12 GMT -8
The Fresco filter in the Filter Gallery under Artistic supposedly simulates the warm, saturated effect of a wet-plaster painting method best known from examples in the ruins of Pompeii and the murals of the Italian Renaissance. How true this is I can't say but it is a rarely used filter that works especially well with bright colours and high contrast images. So I thought for this challenge we'd see what you can come up with - the only requirement being that you use the Fresco filter at some stage in your creation.
A couple of suggestions - like many other filters the effect of the settings is dependent on the pixel dimensions of the image you start with. I've generally found starting withy an image between 2000 and 3000 pixels on the longest side works best. Also if the filter is greyed out it's likely because your image is 16 bit (for example from a raw file). Convert to 8 bit to use the filters.
Here are a couple of examples. This first was done in the Filter Gallery by applying the Fresco Filter followed by the Craquelture filter and then pressing OK. The settings I used are shown in the layer screenshot below along with the before and after:
In the second example I duplicated the original twice, applied the Photocopy filter to one copy and and the Fresco Filter to the other setting the blend mode to multtply.
Looking forward to seeing your creations using the Fresco filter.
Tony
A couple of suggestions - like many other filters the effect of the settings is dependent on the pixel dimensions of the image you start with. I've generally found starting withy an image between 2000 and 3000 pixels on the longest side works best. Also if the filter is greyed out it's likely because your image is 16 bit (for example from a raw file). Convert to 8 bit to use the filters.
Here are a couple of examples. This first was done in the Filter Gallery by applying the Fresco Filter followed by the Craquelture filter and then pressing OK. The settings I used are shown in the layer screenshot below along with the before and after:
In the second example I duplicated the original twice, applied the Photocopy filter to one copy and and the Fresco Filter to the other setting the blend mode to multtply.
Looking forward to seeing your creations using the Fresco filter.
Tony