For the artist lurking within.

[inapickle]

If you are a frustrated artist like myself, there is help at hand. Corel painter is good, but difficult to master, but then I discovered Fotosketcher. A totally free piece of software that instantly creates masterpieces. You can use it by clicking presets, or adjusting and fine tuning a preset you like. It also creates textures in the pictures, adds frames, and text, if you want to add them. There is also the ability to do very basic editing, but I prefer to do that in photoshop first.

Here are some samples of what it does with a photo. I've added a variety of frames and textures to demonstrate some of the ones available. Sorry, some of these frames are not to my taste

Fotosketcher is extremely handy if you have a photo you like, but it is too blurry to use. Turn it into a painting. People seem to like them, and they often come up well as canvases.

Next rainy day - go and have some fun. Sorry, no Mac version to my knowledge

Original photo

Oil painting

Oil Pastel

Pencil sketch

Water colour

[Phoenix]

Oh my, so many choices, it would be like going to supermarket and not being able to figure out which tin of tomatoes to buy!

[inapickle]

Oh my, so many choices, it would be like going to supermarket and not being able to figure out which tin of tomatoes to buy!

That's exactly what it is like

[P Plates]

They look great must have a look at it - thanks for the info.