Smoothing out and simplifying photos

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.

Managing your reference photo simplification

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.

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.