bob
It's better to have two hands than one glove.
Does there exist somewhere a filter/technique/whatever compatible with Corel PhotoPaint that does a fine art transformation. Something like the Oil Paint filter from Filter Forge, only one works at something more than glacial speed?
The Filter Forge item produces perfectly acceptable results but it's so abysmally slow that it's utterly useless for anything much larger that a 92ppi 4"x6" snapshot. I set it to work on a 150ppi 16"x40" image and it ran for six hours before I stopped it out of frustration.
Any of the Filter Forge products that actually do something I'd want to do seem to be unusably slow. The ones that I'd never use for anything seem to run lickity split. This, of course, is the way of the various gods of perversity.
Nonetheless I need a filter or technique or something that renders a photo into a reasonably realistic painting. No impressionism, cubism, pointillism, whatever. The object is to render the subject is such a way that tends to preserve detail but your first impression would absolutely not be a photo.
The Filter Forge item produces perfectly acceptable results but it's so abysmally slow that it's utterly useless for anything much larger that a 92ppi 4"x6" snapshot. I set it to work on a 150ppi 16"x40" image and it ran for six hours before I stopped it out of frustration.
Any of the Filter Forge products that actually do something I'd want to do seem to be unusably slow. The ones that I'd never use for anything seem to run lickity split. This, of course, is the way of the various gods of perversity.
Nonetheless I need a filter or technique or something that renders a photo into a reasonably realistic painting. No impressionism, cubism, pointillism, whatever. The object is to render the subject is such a way that tends to preserve detail but your first impression would absolutely not be a photo.
