computer programme for pictures

2 or 3 years ago, someone posted pictures of tractors which he had treated with a computer programme to look like oil paintings.I have the chance to turn some old photographs into such pictures, but have lost the programme. Can anyone help, please? The pictures are of a farmer in our village in the early 1920s on his new Fordson tractor and his family would like to see a picture so treated on the wall in the kitchen.

The Shareware program "Irfanview" has that feature under "image", "effects" "oil paint".
irfanview

How the heck do you guys know all this stuff?? I can barely get the darn thing turned on!

Photoshop also has the same thing

Google is your friend.

But back to the original question. I use Corel PaintShop Pro for photo editing, much less expensive than Photoshop and does pretty much the same things. Both programs have a long learning curve though.

Photoshop is the best, but not cheap.

I think the one you're referring to is FOTOSKETCHER. A free download.

Phil,

I also use Corel Paintshop Pro. I agree with Tom, that if one has never used a photo editing program there is a fairly sharp learning curve.

I also find "Brushstrokes" to be one of the more difficult effects to apply... because each photograph seems to require different settings (brushstroke length, density, etc.) to get the best effect.

I find people's faces are the most difficult to get to turn out well. Notice on the photo of my husband, because of sun highlights, the one side of his nose has no brushstrokes on it.

Keeping in mind that pixels have been reduced to post online... here are some samples that I have done (with, in my mind, LIMITED success):

(quoted from post at 03:10:54 03/13/16) 2 or 3 years ago, someone posted pictures of tractors which he had treated with a computer programme to look like oil paintings.I have the chance to turn some old photographs into such pictures, but have lost the programme. Can anyone help, please? The pictures are of a farmer in our village in the early 1920s on his new Fordson tractor and his family would like to see a picture so treated on the wall in the kitchen.

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I don't do a lot of altering photos beyond cropping, sharpness, color, etc. And I don't normally use Windows (programs).

Google Picasa is free, has basic effects, not a lot, probably not oil. It is being discontinued and they will stop offering the download. The program will still work fine though, just get it soon, actually, looks like you need to do it before the 15th of this month.... https://picasa.google.com/

Gimp is a free program, not the easiest to use, but there are guides everywhere with step by step. It is comparable to Photoshop in some features if you work with it. If it doesn't support "oil" directly, there are add ons to get, or mess with settings manually. I have not used it much for years.
https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
https://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-oilify.html

For a pay program that isn't ~too expensive, hard to beat Photoshop Elements. Many features of regular Photoshop which is much more expensive. At the end of the year it usually goes on sale for around $40, could look for an older version, or look elsewhere for a sale.
http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-65263875-Photoshop-Elements-14/dp/B014GP8XGM

Might be something simpler than this, just the first result I saw that looked promising.
http://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/editing/Turn-Your-Favourite-Digital-Photo-into-an-Oil-Painting

I don't know how to do it. My daughter did this for me for Christmas. She took the picture at the plowing competition. Plowing with my DC4.
Dave

Trying to get a picture.

I looked at the Windows version of Gimp a little since my post, if you don't want to spend money on Photoshop Elements, I very highly suggest Gimp. Elements has some nice automated stuff, plus works fairly easy for restoring old photos (like removing scratches etc.).

Open a picture, filters, artistic, oilify, adjust the slider to the right for more effect, ok, wait a while. If done, File, Export as (not save, that saves in gimp format, not a finished jpg picture), set the quality, export.

There are a LOT of effects in there besides that.

This isn't meant to be good and doesn't show the best, I just opened a photo, did the above, moved the slider a little, and applied (shrank photos later). Same with the other effect. Of course doesn't look as "ok" as the full photos.

Thanks for all the help and advice. I went with fotosketcher in the end. I found it simple to use, very basic but did exactly what I want. Once again, thanks to you all. Phil

Photoshop Elements is on sale today only for $50. Well worth it for a pay program if you don't mind spending a little. Has a lot of features.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014GP8XGM

http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/adobe_photoshop_elements_14_review/