Photoshop Oil Painting Effect Plugin Free Download

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Aug 3, 2024, 2:59:14 PM8/3/24

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I used to use the Paint Daubs when working with SD footage from video (pre-HD, pre-4K). Very subtle use of the effect could make a video-looking still pulled from the film look like a much higher quality image, even slightly painterly, getting rid of any sense of the video-look.

I still have the Paint Daubs effect in an earlier version of Photoshop (which no longer runs on my current OS). And tried to install that specific plug-in into the Affinity-folder-for-effects-plug-ins ... but it doesn't seem to translate. I heard something like this could be done. Nada, it seems, in this case.

I have looked into Paint Daubs effect and it doesn't look like something that will be compatible with Affinity Photo I'm afraid. However you may be able to achieve a similar effect to this plugin by following the below thread :)

It's a pre-installed under your Filters. It really comes down to using multiple filters to create your effect where Poster Edges may be your best filter to start combined with either your watercolors filter or your oil paint filter.

What exactly do you mean by "plugin" in this context? Are you looking for a filter that will give an existing image a more painterly look, or are you looking for a set of natural media tools with which you can paint by hand?

If it's the former, then as Chelsea said, I'd suggest you get in the habit of applying multiple filters to create the combined effects that you want. Don't look to any one filter to automatically make anything look good. It's a creative process, with emphasis on PROCESS, always.

The main reason why I want to use a plugin, is because I don't want to spent too much time on each and every individual texture. The mixer brush tip options I can use in CS5, in combination with my tablet, basically allows me to paint whatever and however I want, but it's a time consuming process. A decent plugin however, allows me to get the desired result with only a few clicks of my glorious finger! Not that it would be as good as how it would be if spending a fair amount of time on it, but I don't want to spent 10 minutes on one texture either.

So my question is not how to archive a painted effect, but what's the fastest way possible to archieve the effect. Most plugins are made to take care of all the work for you which is why I was asking for one. I am not saying the results are as good as how it would be when doing it yourself, but in my case, in my pipeline, it's an excellent solution.

It's kinda like how one uses a paper and pencil to sketch out an idea, to throw out proportions and to visualize an idea. The sketch isn't the final result, but it can be used as a visual guide and as reference material during the creative process.

To answer your question, I have used Eye Candy before. I downloaded the demo a couple years ago, when like you, I was looking for a way to speed up my work. I tried to use it for a work project, and then was quickly scolded by one of the execs at the client company, for using "recognizable filters" in my texturing. So, I uninstalled it, bought Fillter Forge, and never looked back.

Looking at the Alien Skin website now, it does seem that at least a few of the filters in Eye Candy package have come a long way in the last couple years. The majority of them don't appear to have changed at all, though.

I'm not sure how much those discount coupons amount to, but if you've got a couple hundred bucks burning a hole in your pocket, I think you'll find Filter Forge to be a MUCH better investment. Once you've bought the program, there are countless thousands of free filters available on the website, including plenty that do the same things as the Alien Skin ones. Plus, you can always make your own.

An added benefit, if you want to bring your texturing prowess outside of SL to platforms with more advanced graphics engines, is Filter Forge will generate bump maps, normal maps, spec maps, ambient occlusion maps, etc., to fit the diffuse textures it makes. It's a quite spectacular piece of software.

Unfortunately the discount coupons I have can only be used for Alien Skin software. However, they have a 40% discount going on at the moment, which is always useful haha. Going to download the trial and see it for myself.

There was some color shifting at the end of the process, but I started by taking it down to 4x4 pixels, exploding, and repeating up to 4096x4096, then shrinking it back down without the explode, but with some sharpen and spectral stuff. The exact effects you get wll depend upon how many times each pixel in the original is duplicated or condensed at each point in the explosion. There are ways to get a horizontal grain, for example, pushing the vertical resolution ahead of the vertical resolution. If you play with it a while, you'll find there's really an amazing amount of texture control by doing several well-considered things in a well-considered order. If you don't reduce, or don't reduce much at the start, the explosions won't toss your color regions around so much as in my case, but I'm doing that deliberately. I haven't tried it, but you can probably variously blend or morph such results with some other kind of "oil painting" effect which has similar final color regions, and get some of the benefits of each effect.

That's an interesting writeup, Josh, on how to acheive with the tools you use, the same kind of effect you could create in a couple of clicks in Photoshop with a clouds filter. Sounds like a neat work-around, to make up for missing tools, if you've got the patience for it.

That's what I gathered the OP was going for, from the conversation. Take the orignal image, and give it brush strokes, knife marks, canvas impressions, a paint-like color palette, all the same stuff you'd see in a RL painting.

I have Photoshop Elements 2020. Does this program allow me to change a photograph into the effect of an oil painting? If so, please provide instructions. If not, which program does this? I've seen other artists do this and wondering how they do this. Thank you.

I watched this video and tried this with many pics... The results are too "one dimensional" for my liking. Is there anyone that knows how to get this type of end results in Photoshop Elements? Are there any plug-ins I can use or download that will help (that actually work) with Elements? If there was just a plug-in that is extrememly similar to the "Art History Brush Tool" The effect could be done easily in Elements. Photoshop: Realistic OIL PAINTING Effect using NO Oil Paint Filters! - YouTube

@Rickenbacker28, what version of Elements do you have? Starting with Elements 2022, there is an Artistic Effects tool that is very easy to use. Here are the kind of results that can be accomplished with this tool:

Elements will probably never have something like the art history brush available in Photoshop CC, and I know of no plug-in that would add this feature. If you really want the features of the full Photoshop, you might want to consider the Photography Plan which gives you a subscription to Photoshop CC and Lightroom for about $10 per month.

Here is a terrific (older) book which covers in detail various techniques that the author utilizes for projects such as you are working on. Amazon has it at bargain price.. He provides suggested initial settings for the various filters, etc. - - step by step.

Becoming familiar with layers is essential. For example, if you wish to add text to a picture, place the text on a separate layer. Now, you can position the information at a locus of choice, or, if you made a mistake, delete the layer and start over.

Is there an auto-painting plugin for PS? I'm thinking of something like this. I start with a source image: a photograph I would like to make look "painted." I would choose a brush and brush size. Then the plugin would make random short strokes, with each stroke setting the color to match the source image.

Seem to me that a random small stroke across an image would be going over many colors bigger tips more colors which color would be your color match? I would think that pointillism may be possible not a Rembrandt.

This is how auto-painting works in Corel Painter. The brush picks up the color underneath it at the starting point of the stroke. It tends to look better if it's a mixer-type brush, which will smear colors and create some brushstroke detail. Kind of impressionistic I think. The final result, depending on the parameters and brush type, is very useful as an image that can be used or recombined with other images, or further processed.

But Photoshop offers various ways to simulate natural media. It all depends what you mean by "painting". You need to have an idea what - what style of artwork - you are aiming for. So, you can use the Art History Brush to make both loose and detailed watercolours and oils, the Mixer Brush can clone Smeary Oil brushstrokes, the Pattern Stamp Tool for detailed oils and watercolour washes, and the Smudge Tool to make highly detailed softened brushstrokes. Then there are chalks for pastels, and filters for pen and pencil outlines used in combination to produce mixed media effects like pen and wash. All of these work from a photograph.

If you look closely at the bottom half of the example you will see that it has a Rasterize effect which affects the edges of the text then there is also a Noise effect applied over all of the image so that it affects the Rasterized parts of the image as well as the body of the text.

I have tried to do this using Photoshop and I have run into some issues. Photoshop does not seem to have a specific Rasterize plugin as it treats Rasterize as the process of converting a vector layer to pixels but what I need is an art effect so to speak. Also the Photoshop Add Noise Filter adds noise to the white background as well as the text which I do not want.