Cave Painting

[amyb4862461]

I am trying to turn this image into some sort of cave painting. 

[Sahil.Chawla]

Hi Amyb,

Could you please have a look at these articles and see if you find them helpful:

Photoshop Guide - The Making Of Cave Paintings - Pxleyes.com

Completely Free Tutorials: Photoshop Cave Painting

Regards,

Sahil

[amyb4862461]

Thank you for your reply.

I had seen your 2 suggestions before and tried each of them

The first suggestion by Pxleyes.com is very vague and do not include steps

to take with Photoshop.

The second suggestion by Completely Free Tutorials I tried and was hardly

any more successful. When I created a new document it would not let me

select Clouds and therefore could not go any further. I do not know what

version of Photoshop Brianna is using but mine, Photoshop CC/Photoshop CC

(2017), would not progress after the setup of the new document. I could do

some of the other functions like pick colors but it certainly did not comet

anything like hers.

Isn't there some other way or an app or plug-in that I could use?

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:13 PM, Sahil.Chawla <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

[War Unicorn]

When I think of cave paintings, I'm thinking of something not as detailed; more form than anything. Is that what you want?

If you need a surface, you'd use something rocky like a boulder's surface. My suggestion, if you can, would be to go somewhere and take a picture of a boulder or large rock, then use that (with some filtering if you need added effect) as the base. From there, it's a matter of the right brush settings and blend modes and using the picture of the (really cute) cats as a basis for "painting" on the rock. Really quick example:

(Yeah, I know. It kinda looks like a monkey. I'm not trying to win any awards here.) 

[amyb4862461]

That's cool, what you did. I'm working with photographs though so I don't

know how to blend or put the images on a rock. But what you did is the

kind of effect I'm looking for.

[War Unicorn]

Real quick:

The "cave wall" is on the bottom-most layer. The cat was used as reference on the layer above set to about 60% opacity for reference. A new layer is at the top, where I roughly outlined the cat (via the Brush Tool; KYLE Ultimate Pencil Hard was used as the brush) using the reference image. I toggled the visibility of the cat reference image, then I blended the paint layer using the Multiply blend mode.

From there, I flattened the image and added a spotlight via Filter > Render > Lighting Effects on the menu bar. (Remember that this effect works on 8-bit color images; it doesn't work on 16-bit color.)

[amyb4862461]

That's really great but how does this help me? I have 2 photographic

images that need to be put on a cave wall. I have this tutorial I really

like

completelyfreetutorials.blogspot.com/2012/09/photoshop-cave-painting.html

but cannot figure out what version of photoshop she used. Mine, Photoshop

CC, 2017, 2018 doesn't work. It gets stuck on the second step where it

says, Filter, Render, and select Clouds. My version just won't do that.

Any ideas?

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 12:30 PM, Warunicorn <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

[War Unicorn]

Weird. What happens when you use the Clouds filter? Error message? A layer should be targeted in your document before executing the command.

Personally, I would use a real surface of some sort. (Almost anything can mimic what would be a "cave wall"; it just needs to be made of stone of some sort. My example was a picture of the side of an old rock I personally took in a local park.) All that tutorial is doing is creating an artificial surface (at least the first part).

[amyb4862461]

Photoshop just won't proceed with the function. When I click on Filters,

Clouds isn't highlighted to use. I can try it again. I don't know what

you mean by "a layer should be targeted", of course I used a new layer;

what kind of layer should I set up?

I looked up caves in Maine but they're all at least 2 hours from where I

live and I certainly don't want to use a stock photo, even if its free. I

did message that girl who created the free tutorial to ask what version she

had used, I'm just waiting for her to get back to me.

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 12:46 PM, Warunicorn <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

[War Unicorn]

Make sure the document is in 8-bit mode. (Image > Mode > 8 bits/Channel on the menu bar.)