Adobe Fresco - Turn a Photo into Painting

Adobe Fresco is an amazing new creative app offering natural media painting and drawing techniques. Follow along and learn how to turn a photograph into a digital mixed media artwork combining watercolour and oil painting techniques. Use time codes below to jump to specific features and check out the Milanote board for resources and exercise files!

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CONTENTS:
0:00 Intro
1:15 Place photo on canvas
2:00 Make selection of woman
2:30 Cut and paste onto the new layer
3:40 Add a mask to the new layer and refine edge
5:00 Turn background into a watercolor with the live brush set to 0 opacity
10:20 Paint back some details on a new layer (trees and mountain peaks)
12:30 Create painterly edge for background with a layer mask and a pixel brush
14:20 Turn woman into an oil painting using live brushes
18:15 Add reflection to separate layer using watercolour
19:41 Paint island on a separate layer
22:36 Paint cloud on a separate layer with Cloud pixel brush and set it to Screen mode
24:44 Add drip effect at the bottom