: How can I apply realistic brush marks on an image? I wonder how brush marks are applied to images. For example, there are some good marks on the sun graphic below. Are they textural, or do

@BetL875

G'MIC plugin for GIMP

In the example you gave it seems indeed a photography of a real background was used. But nevertheless we can apply brush or sketch marks to an image using external filters in Gimp. Below I did a quick sketch mark using the "Black & White - Sketch" filter from the external Gimp plugin GREYC's Magic for Image Computing.


Source Image


Sketch filter with added motion blur


Overlay of source image and sketched image




The sketched image in step 2. will need further fine tuning for more realistic brush/pencil stroke effects.

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@Caterina889

That is simply a photograph used for texture. No one painted those brush marks in Photoshop. In reality, this is how it's done most of the time.... by using a photograph of a brush texture to add the variation.

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