Butterfly Dance

[Alan]

Cabbage White and Daisies in Oil

[seaslug]

Love it!

[inapickle]

The butterfly adds the finishing touch to the photo, but I won't inquire too closely as to it's origin

[Alan]

Thanks pickle how could possibly think I would have added a butterfly - I'm mortified you know I'm such a purist

[loose cannon]

Beautiful.

Even the flowering buds looks great with the oil filter.

[Sully]

Tis beautiful Alan ........ don't have access to the 'oil filter' .....

[inapickle]

Thanks pickle how could possibly think I would have added a butterfly - I'm mortified you know I'm such a purist

Just keeping an eye on you

Barb, the oil painting filter is part of Pixel Blender. It is built into CS6, and runs as a plugin in CS5. Unfortunately it doesn't run with Elements.

But ... there is a standalone version of pixel blender. It was installed on my computer when I bought it. Adobe no longer supports it, but there are still some download links on their site here. You have to sign into Adobe to download. Just create a new account if you don't already have one. If the download still works, you might like to try and get pixel blender working. It is not easy, but worth the effort.

The only trouble was that when I downloaded the CS5 plugin version a year ago, the oil filter was not included. It took a lot of hunting on the internet to find the oil filter to add in.


For painting effects you might like to download and play with the free software Fotosketcher.

[P Plates]

Beautiful - so delicate. I couldn't work out why so many of my filters weren't showing then discovered I had to change to 8 bit to get all to show. Happy now can start playing with more of them.

[Alan]

Thanks again (Fotosketcher has no Mac version )