Photoshop: Create Powerful, ABSTRACT Expressionist Portraits from PHOTOS.

Photoshop CC 2023 tutorial showing how to create the look of powerful abstract expressionist portraits from photos.
IMPORTANT: At 11:25 in the video, an alternate way to add a textured background behind your portrait is to open a texture as a new document. Drag it onto your portrait document and size it up. Make sure the texture background is placed just below the folders in the Layers panel.
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[@annashaw4329]

Wow! Magic! This tute really helps transform my photos into creative works of art. Great job driving home clipping mask techniques. Thanks so much, Marty.

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

You're very welcome!

[@SSHK237]

Hi Marty! Always a pleasure watching your tutorials! I am 72 and still working! Creative people never retire!!! Basically I am a Fine Art Graduate in Graphic Design and this brilliant tutorial reminds me of my Art School Days, when we used to do different exercises by using old magazines. Our generation is lucky to live in this fast changing world and who are experienced in hand work as well as on todays fast processing, ram-hungry PCs!

[@robster6820]

Best tutorials on the internet EVER!. Brilliant stuff Marty👏

[@RetroMusicMan369]

As always Marty, absolutely great stuff. And taught so well 👍

[@FrshGostHUF]

You have a soothing voice. Very relaxing to follow. Love your tutorials

Excellent, waiting for you every week to learn that technique. 👍

[@craigcannon4958]

Fantastic tutorial! Makes for an exciting project to test out.

[@yanakhilobok]

Amazing! You explain everything perfectly! Thank you!

[@francequirion9547]

Just discover your chanel!! Great teacher and great stuff!!! Thank you so much for this tutorial!! Love art in Photoshop!!!

[@fedotov_stanly]

Perfect tutorials! Tank you very much for your job!

[@hussainmohammedmahf]

Fantastic sir

[@AmeliGDilo]

Beautiful!!

[@cms4Lena]

Poors, but industrious, are also lucky with Marty. You have shown how to make illustration easy in Ps. So that I can modify those lines more distinctly by brushes in masks? and give colors apparently like in Ai with shadows, mid tones and highlights. Love, love, love everything you do! Angel!

[@2Audi]

Thank you sir for this great lessons and absolutely great channel fantastic .

[@fernandpentier1475]

You're the best !

[@831Miranda]

Fabulous tutorial! Thanks ❤

[@SKMRify]

Fascinating stuff.

[@kamalhameedbhatti8281]

SIMPLY AWESOME

[@barbaralongoria6394]

❤ Love this!

[@omegasocialfly6228]

AWESOME

[@EdwardGil-gd5pf]

A thousands thumps up

[@aver4uk]

I did it)

[@831Miranda]

Gorgeous! I'll have practice this! What file type were the textures? I ask because they were transparent when placed over the subject?

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

They're all jpegs.

[@831Miranda]

@@BLTV_Photoshop Thank you! Maybe the opacity was lower/not 100%...

[@SusuKh]

Good

[@aliz4993]

Hi Marty, and thank you for another great video. I followed the steps stated in the video above but for that last step when adding a background, I couldn't get the expected result. I think there is a missing step. :(

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

Hmm...I just reviewed the video and don't see any steps missing. What did your final image look like after adding a background?

[@selenemoreno2906]

✨️💛✨️

[@stirfduvin]

Awesome video. Just like other participants, the last step of the background doesn't work. I go to "file"-" "place embeded"-and choose my texture like in previous steps. The texture doesn't show, but gives a kind of greyish background color. " Make sure the blend mode for the background layer is "Normal" and its opacity is 100%" makes no difference.

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

Alternative method: Open a texture for your background as a new document. Drag it onto your portrait document and size it up. Make sure the texture background is placed just below the folders.

[@marlenecarvery4270]

What software do I need to buy and install on my MacBook air computer to be able to do this sort of thing? I am afraid of "free downloads" because I don't want to get a virus scam"

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

Photoshop is subscription-based. Go to: www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html Get the Photography Plan (1TB) US$19.99/mo It includes Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, Photoshop on desktop and iPad, and 1TB of cloud storage. Minimum requirements: helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/system-requirements.html

[@aakoalipour3414]

It's amazing but my graphic card doesn't support oil paint filter and I don't know what to do. can you give me now that away instead of oil painting filter please?

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

The Oil Paint filter isn't essential for this effect. Instead, go to Filter > Blur > Smart Blur. Play with the adjustments.

[@ВасилийВасилий-л6ф]

Мартин, дружище, рад тебя видеть. Куда ты пропадал на 3 дня?

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

Мой канал на KZbin взломали. К счастью, Google и KZbin смогли мне его вернуть. Это заняло 3дня.

[@malerunwaymodels8951]

Hello, when I put my background texture, it does not appear as yours. It looks pretty light, not darker. Please help.

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

Make sure the blend mode for the background layer is "Normal" and its opacity is 100%.

[@malerunwaymodels8951]

@@BLTV_Photoshop it is but still the same!!!!

[@malerunwaymodels8951]

@@BLTV_Photoshop After I import it, it automatically loses its quality and becomes very light. Not the natural color.

[@veeboogie2356]

An this be done on the iPad?

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

Frankly, I don't know. I do know that some features of PS are missing in the iPad.

[@LeonTheLegendary18]

It won't let me use Oil Paint for mine

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

Go to Image > Mode > RGB color, 8 bits/Channel.

[@meshstore_technologies]

Super!

[@BostonFeliksovich]

👍

[@fyourhandlegoogle]

Why is PHOTOS capitalised, what else would it be, cabbages?

[@BLTV_Photoshop]

lol. 🤔