Photo to oil painting – Gimp tutorial

Every so often I get frustrated at all the things I can’t do as someone who isn’t able to draw and must content themselves with photoshopping pictures.  (Where “photoshopping” in my case = “manipulating using the Gimp”)  There are so few available pictures of people in historical clothes out there, that I’m really going to have to find some method for taking modern pictures and making them look old.

So today I thought I’d start small and see if I could take a modern photo of a guy in a modern Arabic headscarf and turn him into an oil painting of a man in a turban which might do for something historical.

From to  in five fairly longwinded stages.

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