Paint with Pattern Stamp

With a decade as a writer and photographer behind him, James knows exactly which Photoshop and Lightroom tools and techniques matter most.

hotoshop offers a variety of tools that let even the most ham-fisted painter turn their photos into beautiful brushbased artwork. Some might look to Photoshop filters for this kind of thing, but they will usually look either generic or unrealistic. The problem with a filter is that it works uniformly across the image.