Jasc Virtual Painter

Straight_Man

The avatar attached to this post is a Virtual Painter Plugin (plugged into Paint Shop Pro 9.0 with GDI+ patch from Jasc installed) output of a sunset or sunrise photo transmuted into a virtual painting-- took about 1 min to process this into a virtual painting. If anyone wants to see what Virtual Painter can do starting from digital photos I will post some more output here.... The graphic in the attachment is a larger size of the same graphic I did for fun and to test the Virtual Painter functionality. First, I tuned the photo to 96x96 PPI, then I converted it with a presupplied painting conversion script file that Virtual PAinter offered me as a painting style format option. It is also possible to write your own scripts.

primesuspect

Wow.. that is a really cool fx filter

Straight_Man

I thought you might like it-- actually, Virtual Painter is a SET of filters plus some preprogrammed full-spec filter sets-- it applies filter sets to a digital photo, essentially. I DID pay for that filter set, and for a Paint Shop Pro 9 upgrade from PSP 8.1(not Paint Shop Pro Studio 9.0 which is for folks who want wizards for lots of things by default and which can use Virtual Painter also). Virtual Painter implements something I and others asked Jasc for starting over three years plus ago-- a digtial or scanned in photo-to-painting morpher.

It can do oil painting sims on wood, canvas, parchment, etc. and has about 7 preprogramemd major styles with the ability to then edit just the surface media to get even more interesting custom effects. THEN, you can apply softening and the full range of PSP canned filters to the result. I just thought the Gauche filter subset run in Virtual Painter would grab the attention of folks here, the younger ones as well as some of the older ones. I find PSP 9.0 one heck of a lot more intuitive to use than PSP 6-8 were. It helps that 9.0 has some built-in tutorials and that there are a bunch of others now on Jasc's online learning center.

One reason I got it is to get the benefits of having a painting of my work area or parts of it as a graphic on my Danielson Systems website and possibly on my business card and brochure. Another reason is that it can grab pics direct from my camera's Smart-Media storage now (from the camera's USB interface for that, so I do NOT need to use the Camedia software for that anymore). I can also convert a HUGE bunch of file formats from one to the other between Corel Graphics Suite and PSP, and both together cost me less than 1\2 as much as Adobe Photoshop in full version since I upgraded from an old CorelDraw to Graphics Suite as well as upgrading PSP from what started as a full purchase of PSP 6 or 7 licensing. Between the two, they have a wider scope of function than does Photoshop.