Turn any image into a retro-style airbrushed painted look associated with classic film posters in less than 10 seconds with this Photoshop action. Featuring incredible life-like depictions which are almost like the original image, but they have a clear hand painted appearance with subtle brush strokes, outlining marks and quite high contrast with vibrant colours. This action will allow you to create the outlines, colours, and shading of a hand-painted image automatically, without the need to trace, paint or draw by hand.

How to use action

Load the action into Photoshop

Go to the actions panel

Find the 'Hand-Draw Illustration' action

Hit Play

Voila! The final result is a classic hand-drawn style illustration with beautiful detail, vibrant colours and defined shading.

This Photoshop action works best with images at the standard size of 1920x1280 pixels.

Enjoy!