Below is a photo from Hernan Rodriguez used in our series of Snap Art ads. He used Exposure to help get the retro look.

As you can see, we are starting with a photo that is already great. Snap Art can cover up some imperfections, but the better your original the better the final art will be.

This is the original. Copyright 2011 Hernan Rodriguez

In this ad I wanted to show that Snap Art can do more than paint, so I used the Pencil Sketch style. You can see a variety of the other styles in our example gallery.

Within Snap Art 3 I used a layer mask on the subject so I could give him more detail than the background. I created a second mask on his eyes, nose, and mouth to make those crystal clear. You can see how this works in the article I wrote on the previous ad. There are also great videos on these techniques.

You can grab Snap Art and run it in trial mode to see for yourself how easy this is! If you are already convinced then head over to our store where you can get Snap Art by itself or as part of the heavily discounted Photo Bundle.

Update

Someone recently asked to see the settings used to make this picture, so I’m including my preset below. However, keep in mind that the shapes of the mask layers are very specific to this photo. You’ll see that one layer covers the body and another covers the eyes, nose, and mouth. To use it on your picture you will need to reshape those layers.

Of course you must already have Snap Art 3 installed for this to work. You can download and use Snap Art in trial mode if you don’t own it.

Save the preset to your desktop first. In most browsers, right-click the link below and choose Save As. That should save a file with a .f1s at the end of the name.

Then double-click the .f1s file to install.  Next time you run Snap Art 3 you should see it in the User Settings list.

Pencil for James Dean ad