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Hey all,

 

I saw this great tutorial on how to turn your photos into a great vector looking piece. Unfortunately it's done in Photoshop. Is there an oil paint like filter in Affinity Photo to pull off this effect with such ease?

 

 

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Hi!

Didn't watch the whole tutorial, but the basic thing of the effect seems to be a posterisation. So take a look at the "Posterise" filter in Photo.

You could also try the "Threshold" filter. You will get a black & white image then. You can colorise it with the filter "Recolour". You have to increase the "Lightness" there to recolour the black areas. With the other two sliders, you can adjust "Hue" and "Saturation" of the wanted colour.

But G'MIC is a verry fine plugin, I can recommend too.

But this all will end up as a pixel image anyway. If you want to get a vector image, you could autotrace your image with f.e. the free vector graphics program Inkscape. Affinity Designer can't do this at the moment. The advantage of vector graphics is that you can up- and downscale them without a loss of quality.

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Yeah was planning to find an auto tracer after doing this. Would be less tedious. I’ll check out the tutorials posted and do the stuff you suggested. Maybe I’ll start with something simple to understand the mechanics of it all.

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These are all great replies you guys thank!

@Lagarto This is pretty close but I'm noticing that multiple oil painting instances give a specific vector line look. How would we solve that with the pictures you've posted above? ie The hair?

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Fair enough. I'm not looking to do tracing in the grand scheme of things. I'm ok with leaving it as a raster image, just looking to get that "vector" look. Plus running it through a vector tracing app would probably have an easier time too if I chose to do it at a later date.

 

I'm noticing that all these solutions are close but just doesn't nail the style as per the oil painting plug in photoshop. I'll keep tinkering though and glad I can get some of the way there. Maybe the cats at Serif will add that in in a future update.

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I am also trying to get this effect in Affinity Photo. No luck yet. Like @TeryFlipis saying ... it is close. It looks like the oil paint effect in PS is tracing the pixels. I really hope that Serif add this filter soon. Even Photopea got this filter, so it cannot be that hard to introduce it inside Affinity Photo. 

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A plain bitmap-to-vector color trace of the original photo, by just using 4 trace colors and then afterwards assigning other colors (like those shown in that PS video) would give you already this here ...

vec_trace4.jpg.857f106cebd3ed95f9b9e75ef449b5f4.jpg

 

If you would now apply some fine tuning like the guys do in PS, you should be close.

 

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