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Step One: The essential ingredient for this project is the ParticleShop plug-in, and it can be purchased from Corel Painter. If you al- ready have the plug-in, like I mentioned, Corel released version 1.5, and this update includes some new technology for creating a painterly appearance for a photo.
Step Two: For this project, I’ve chosen this fun image of a young woman hold- ing balloons from Adobe Stock. Begin by opening the image in Photoshop and converting the Background layer to a smart object by going to Layer>Smart Objects> Convert to Smart Object.
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Step Three: Before beginning with the simu- lated brushstrokes, there are a couple of things that need to be done. First, the smaller details should be removed with the Smart Blur filter. Go to Filter>Blur>Smart Blur. Set the Quality to High, the Radius at 3.0, and the Threshold at 25. (Note: For the low-res practice file, set the Threshold to 12.5.) Then click OK to apply the blur.
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