Two Coolest Photoshop Effects For DIY Photo - Art Prints

1. Watercolour effect
Make yourself into an instant Van Gogh with Photoshop's watercolour effect - this looks particularly good with landscape and portrait canvas art prints. To recreate it:

* Create three duplicates of your background layer in Photoshop, and begin by working only on the first two (turn the top two duplicates off in your Layers palette)
* Use the Cutout filter (under Artistic) on Layer 1, with 4 levels, an edge simplicity of 4, and Edge Fidelity of 2. Change the blend mode of this layer to 'Luminosity', using the Layers palette.
* Use the Dry Brush filter on the next layer (under Artistic again), with a brush size of 10, brush detail of 10, and texture of 3. Change the blend mode to Screen.
* Use the Median filter (under Noise) with a radius of 12 on the next layer. Set the blend mode to soft light.

You'll see you have quite a detailed photo for canvas printing with a realistic watercolour effect! Just like creating a commissioned painting of whatever subject you feel like.

2. Pixellated Effect
Think about the pop art of Andy Warhol if you want an example of this effect - or go stand up close to a billboard and you'll get a better understanding of how your canvas printed photo will come out. This is a much more modern look than the watercolour effect, and the texturing of the canvas gives the pixels an extra depth. One of the bonuses of the big pixel effect is that you can resize your photo as large as you want without sacrificing quality... because pixellation is part of the quality! Here's how to 'big pixel' your photos for canvas printing:

* Use the Mosaic filter (under Pixelate in the Filter menu) and set your square size to something that works for your picture. Bigger squares look more striking.
* Create a Pattern of inverse dots the same size as your mosaic squares, by creating a new (square) document the same size as your mosaic squares. Use the circle tool to draw a circle that fills the doc from top to bottom and side to side, and then invert the selection using Ctrl+Shift+I. Fill this with white using the paint bucket. Then hide every layer other than the white corners (using the Layers palette) and go to Edit-Define Pattern. Name the pattern Pixels, Dots, or something recognizable.
* Make a new layer on top of the photo you are using for canvas printing
* Set your blending options, with a mode of normal, opacity of 100% and fill opacity of zero percent.
* Set the pattern options with the blending options, to a mode ofnormal, select your Pixels pattern from the arrow at right of the pattern option and snap to origin
* Scale it to 100%, and you have a Warhol for a canvas art print!

Source : Ezinearticles