A new programme

[Fogey]

Following on from Polly's excellent rendition of turning a photograph into an oil painting, and as I simply don't have the skills to do the same as Polly in Photoshop, I cheated!  

I looked on T'Internet for some free software to do this task and came up with this. Fotosketcher.

I had to read the instuctions and watch the video to fathom out how the software worked and found I could manage it without too much trouble, although my computer had a bit of a job to keep up.

I was able ro produce drawn sketches, coloured sketches, water colours, oils, crayons and a plethora of other effects.

This is my second attempt - a scottish scene in oils.

[Clicker]

Well Fogey ...that looks like a very good find for free especially.. I  don't consider anything one uses  to be cheating when it comes to manipulating images ...as long as one  is.... up front about it . !  

Did you post the original shot as a  photo at any time on here ... I don't recall this  scene  from  your Scottish trip..... It looks another lovely place ...what Loch is that ?

You could add a canvas texture   with Photoshop   to  make it even more like an oil painting Fogey ... Do you  have a version of Photoshop  ?

A good find Fogey ....and thanks for sharing   with us ... I shall go and have a look at it now !

 

 

 

[Fogey]

Yes I have posted this image on here before, Polly and no, I have no idea where the loch is or what it's called - I was totally and completely lost.

I pulled into a sortt of rest area as I was sick of driving and when I got out of the car I was met with a vista on all points of the compass, so I just got the camera out and started photography-ing.

I do have Photoshop and I did take this image into it for further editing, selecting different textures for the sky, background, mid and foreground and blended them in with layers and masking.

This is the original image.

[Clicker]

It makes one realIse how handy it is when photos are geo tagged ….  I do remember you saying how you were lost at one point .. shame we can’t work out where it is though …..

What camera do you shoot with?

[Fogey]

I was shooting with a Nikon D601 when I was in Scotland, but now I've progressed to a Nikon D750.

[Fogey]

I do know I was staying at the Lochailort Inn when I took the image.  It was in those mountains, glens and lochs where I got lost.  I do know I ended up in Ullapool, somehow.  Other than that my recollection was of one stunning vista after another until I got sick of them.

[Clicker]

Well I tried to find where this was    …. Even travelled via Google street map from Fort William to Ullapool but I got lost too

[markknittle61]

On 22/11/2022 at 06:00, Fogey said:

Following on from Polly's excellent rendition of turning a photograph into an oil painting, and as I simply don't have the skills to do the same as Polly in Photoshop, I cheated!  

I looked on T'Internet for some free software to do this task and came up with this. Fotosketcher.

I had to read the instuctions and watch the video to fathom out how the software worked and found I could manage it without too much trouble, although my computer had a bit of a job to keep up.

I was able ro produce drawn sketches, coloured sketches, water colours, oils, crayons and a plethora of other effects.

This is my second attempt - a scottish scene in oils.

I like it a lot I won't show my wife, she will want to paint it.