441 Achieving real pointillism with the Pointillize filter

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…This week I'm going to show you…how to achieve what I'm calling "real pointillism"…using PhotoShop's pointalize filter.…Now if you've ever played around with…pointalize then you've probably been…massively disappointed.…It allows you to take a photograph…like this for example and turn it into…a bunch of colored dots against a…white background.…What is up with that?…Well, that background coincides with…the background colors.…So if it's white you see white,…if it's black you see black,…if it's grey you see grey.…

If you apply three passes of pointalize…using white, black and grey then you…can achieve this stunning effect right here.…Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…All right, in the name of full disclosure…here's a work of genuine pointillism…in the form of Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon.…And here's what we're gonna come up with.…So obviously this is not the result of…dabbing a real paintbrush against a real canvas…a bazillion times over the span of three years.…