Creating a painting from a digital photo
The Photo Painting Palettes let you create beautiful paintings from digital photos. The three Photo Painting Palettes are the Underpainting palette, the Auto-Painting palette, and the Restoration palette.

With the Underpainting palette, you can prepare a photo for painting and add beautiful effects and borders, such as a vignette. The Auto-Painting palette lets you magically transform a photo into a painting by automatically applying random paint strokes that vary in stroke type, direction, and pressure. The Restoration palette allows you to touch up your painting manually with one of two special brushes that "restore" areas of the image—such as facial features—to their original pristine detail.

Starting with this digital photo of a dog, we'll create a painting.

Preparing the photo with the Underpainting palette
The Underpainting palette gives you access to several options for preparing an image for cloning. You can adjust the contrast, lightness, or saturation of an image. In addition, you can add a decorative edge effect to an image, such as a rectangular, circular, or jagged vignette.

In the example below, we chose Jagged Vignette from the Edge Effect pop-up menu. After you set the controls, click the Quick Clone button to create a clone of the photo.

Creating a clone
You can choose from a range of preset stroke styles from the Auto-Painting palette to create stylized artwork based on a photo.

In this example, we chose Scribble Large from the Stroke pop-up menu. We also chose the Camel Oil Cloner brush variant of the Cloner brush category to reproduce the digital photo in the clone image. Clicking the Play button starts the cloning process.

You can check the painting by clicking the Stop button . Then, you can turn off the tracing paper to see the painting by clicking the Tracing paper button on the vertical scroll bar.

Restoring photo detail
After using the Auto-Painting palette to create the clone, you can use the Restoration palette to recover photo detail. The Restoration Palette is ideal for restoring a subject's eyes when you convert a photo to a portrait.

We used the Soft edge cloner brush to bring some detail back into the dog's eyes.