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I found a program in the Google Play Store the other day called Photo Painter. As the name suggests, it takes a photograph and renders it in various artistic styles…quite a few painting styles, and several sketching styles. You can then apply a realistically rendered 3D frame. I have used a similar program on the laptop called Dynamic Auto Painter. I am still exploring the features of Photo Painter, but the results so far are promising…if you like this kind of thing. <\/p>\n

I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, you can produce some nice effects…on the other what you have created is neither a painting or a photograph. At best it is a photograph processed to look something like<\/em> a painting. “Ah,” you say (or at least I think) “but is it art?” <\/p>\n

Then too, I am fresh from an encounter with a software expert for one of the makers of image processing plug-ins, who claimed that he turned his images into paintings using the software he was demonstrating because he was such a bad photographer. He seemed proud of the fact. That is just sad, and I, personally, do not want to go there. I promise I will never try to save<\/em> an image by processing it as a painting. <\/p>\n

This image, however, stands on its own as a photograph (imho). Processing it as a painting does not make it better…only different. <\/p>\n

Samsung Smart Camera WB800F in Rich Tone mode. Processed in Snapseed and rendered as a painting in Photo Painter the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014. <\/p>\n

Oh, and it is Cascade Falls in Saco Maine.<\/p>\n

And for those who are wondering, here is the image with standard processing.<\/p>\n

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