Simplifying and smoothing photos for painting

Simplify Reference Photos (Reduce Detail Smoothly) With ArtistAssistApp

Simplify Reference Photos (Reduce Detail Smoothly) With ArtistAssistApp

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Using ArtistAssistApp, you can smooth out your reference photo to reduce detail and focus on the big shapes and proportions of your subject while also learning how to simplify and abstract your paintings. Flowers, especially peonies, have so many details that it's easy to get lost in them. By reducing the detail of the photo, you will immediately understand how to depict a flower with large strokes. This ArtistAssistApp feature will help you paint loosely and abstract.

Selecting a photo

Select your reference photo on the Photo tab.

Selecting a reference photo in ArtistAssistApp

Simplifying your reference photo

The ArtistAssistApp Simplified tab allows you to smooth out your reference photo to reduce detail and focus on the big shapes and proportions.

There's no need to squint your eyes to blur your reference.

Flowers, especially peonies, have so many details that it's easy to get lost in them.

By reducing the detail of the photo, you will immediately understand how to depict a flower with large strokes.

Control the blur strength with the corresponding buttons.

Smoothing out and simplifying a reference photo in ArtistAssistApp

Smoothing out and simplifying a reference photo in ArtistAssistApp

Smoothing out and simplifying a reference photo in ArtistAssistApp

Saving a simplified image

You can save a simplified (smoothed) image to your device by pressing the Save button.

On devices with a small screen, to access the Save button, first press the (vertical ellipsis) button.

About ArtistAssistApp

ArtistAssistApp, also known as Artist Assist App, is a web app for artists to accurately mix any color from a photo, analyze tonal values, turn a photo into an outline, draw with the grid method, paint with a limited palette, simplify a photo, remove the background from an image, compare photos pairwise, and more.

Try it now for free at https://app.artistassistapp.com to improve your painting and drawing skills and create stunning artworks.