Once the OilPaint is installed, follow these steps or just read along to do a quick walkthrough of OilPaint. My contact at AKVIS for this review was Kat Kharina. You can download a free 10 day trial version of OilPaint from the AKVIS site. Apart from OilPaint, AKVIS also creates other Photoshop plug-ins like AirBrush, Sketch, ArtWork, Refocus, Retoucher, Chameleon, MultiBrush, Enhancer, Decorator 3, Coloriage, etc. What sets this plug-in apart is that you can choose one of OilPaint's 22 ready-to-use presets or play with the effect settings to create your own presets.ĪKVIS OilPaint is from AKVIS, a company based in Russia that specializes in graphic programs. These cause a photo to painting conversion. AKVIS OilPaint works as an artistic filter creating stylish paintings from images using its preset or tweaked algorithms. It's expensive ($49-$89), but if you only want to convert one or two images then we'd try it anyway - the trial build doesn't add watermarks or otherwise tamper with your pic (although you're still not allowed to use it commercially).OilPaint is an Adobe Photoshop-compatible plug-in that creates oil painting effects from any photograph. Its interface is occasionally confusing, but AKVIS OilPaint is vastly configurable and the program gives a vast amount of control over your finished artwork. But it turns out, there's no need: if you want to try a new setting, all you have to do is apply that tweak and click Run again.įinished masterpieces may be saved locally, but if they're really impressive you're able to share them directly on Twitter, Flickr, Google+ and Dropbox.

You can't then 'Undo' that step to return to the unprocessed version, which puzzled us initially. When you're happy with the settings, clicking Run processes the image to display the results. Unlike other tools, you don't just get to select a material: you can set the canvas scale, pattern, brightness and position of a light source, prominence, distortion effect and more. There's almost as much flexibility in defining the canvas. If you need more control, the Home Deluxe and Business editions of the program also allow you to define the stroke direction. Whatever you're doing, the preview window updates almost immediately to show the results. You can then manually tweak these by dragging any of 8 sliders - Simplicity, Saturation, Max Stroke Length, Stroke Thickness/ Intensity/ Curvature, Wide Background Strokes, Random Strokes. This didn't look too dramatic for us, but if you're not happy there are more than 40 preset styles to choose from. Open an image and the program immediately applies its default painting effect to a small preview area.

AKVIS OilPaint is a stand-alone application and Photoshop plugin which can transform digital images into realistic oil paintings.

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