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This tutorial utilise the History Brush to turn any picture or photo into an artistic painting..

To start off, open an image you want to turn into an "artistic" piece of art. Im using the image you see on the left, if you want to follow the tutorial, you can download this image HERE

First thing you need to do is create a new layer, so simply go to Layer » New » Layer. Click OK on the dialog box and you should have a new layer.

Set your foreground color to white (press D to reset the color palletes, then press X to set foreground to white)

Now use the Paint Bucket tool to fill the new layer with white.

Now open your "History" pallete. If its not open, go to Windows » History

If you followed the tutorial correctly, you should now have the same history as mine tothe left.

Next, click on the empty box to the left of the "Open" item on the history pallete to mark the history brush.

Then in the Toolbox, select and hold down the History Brush, then select "Art History Brush"

At the top you will see a toolbar for the history brush. This is where you can set different variables for the brush, so select the brush size and style you want to use (experiment is the key here).

Then simply use the brush and paint on top of the white layer. You will see that the brush will start painting the image of the original layer, in an artistic style. Base on my settings above, this is what im getting as I paint

After you've painted the whole image, go to Filter » Sharpen » Unsharp Mask, and enter the following settings:
Amount: 200%, Radius: 2px, Threshold: 10

So we've turned

This

into this...

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kishor Jun/09/2010 15:39what a idea sir g!!!!!!
Annonymous Mar/15/2010 12:32Nice. @toothpaste really?? "wow beast!!!!" how old are you 10?
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toothpaste Mar/03/2010 10:22dis is beautiful!!!!!! wow beast!!!!
parikh Mar/27/09 07:19An artistic tutorial on art history brush tool. A real good way to use art history brush tool. Parikh India-Mumbai
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umrx Mar/4/09 15:28NICE TUT..
Annonymous! Jan/19/09 22:40this is awesome! i loved it! i don't know how you figured out how to use this!!!!
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queenie Jun/23/08 11:38thisissoawsome i love it
kim Jun/10/08 22:52it is amazing ..................tell me abt more things about images
Sabiha Apr/26/08 16:37gud one!
ab Mar/23/08 08:30this is weird... the filter didn't do anything on mine...
kh-lee Feb/27/08 03:09very nice, thanks.
MAMA Oct/3/07 00:11COOL
sudhakar Sep/29/07 04:53wonderful and easy, good for ps artists.
MR BIG BOY Sep/27/07 04:53OMFG WTF IS THIS GO SUCK UR SELF UP
Ganesh Sep/20/07 16:31Mind Blowing
roopa Aug/10/07 19:00its amazing.surpised !!! it can look this way...
shekar Jul/16/07 20:17its very nice
mikeshinoda Jul/7/07 08:57do you really think that is a nice work!? that's too easy
guru Jun/5/07 19:30ok
mariano May/14/07 13:17gracias thank you very much really
k May/3/07 04:46lame
bob Apr/26/07 01:38idk
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