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Create Impressionist-style images with brushed borders
Turn your photos into painterly masterpieces in Photoshop, and add an artistic edge effect, with this issue’s gift
20 BRUSHED BORDER EFFECTS
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Jon Adams
Jon is a professional photographer and writer. He also provides one-to-one and smallgroup tuition in both digital SLR and Photoshop image-editing skills.
There are several ways to turn a photo into an image that looks like an Impressionist painting. These extend from creative shooting techniques with intentional camera movement during the exposure to more obvious digital manipulation when you process the picture. We’ll focus on the latter here, with a technique that’s not only quick and easy to apply, but also one that doesn’t use any stock paint effects from Photoshop’s Filter Gallery; it can also be varied in all kinds of subtle ways to get a huge variety of different looks.