Virtual Painter 5 plugin

The trial version of the Virtual Painter 5 plugin can be downloaded from this website. You can try a free trial and check it out (plugin only costs $55). You can view a short tutorial on using VP5 here: http://www.digiretus.com/tippek/cikkiro.php?SORSZAM=143

From their website:

You can turn your favorite digital photos into realistic looking paintings such as watercolor, oil painting, pencils, etc. with a few simple mouse clicks. No difficult setup is required. Your photos are turned into paintings in front of your eyes in a few seconds.

Virtual Painter 5 could not be any easier to use -- all you need to do is to select a digital photograph, taken with a digital camera, scanned with a scanner, or downloaded from the web, select one of the 16 painting styles (also called painters or filters), choose the material on which the painting will be created (canvas, wood, stucco, etc.), and let Virtual Painter 5 do the work for you.

Virtual Painter 5 is not a painting tool that you must master to create your own works of art. Rather, the filters it offers are like agents, virtual artists who have their own characteristic techniques and methods. You can preview their art and even request a few changes, but you can leave the hard work to them. Sit back and watch them paint. You're sure to be pleasantly surprised, time after time.


16 painters at your command!
Watercolor
Oil Painting
Gouache
Color Pensil
Patel
Rectangles
Triangles
Impasto
Pointillism
Silk Screen
Collage
Drawing
Airbrush
Embroidery
Gothic Oil Painting
Fauvist Oil Painting
See each painter's profile here.

The Plug-In version of Virtual Painter 5 runs as a "plug-in" to popular graphic applications such as Adobe® Photoshop®. Plug-ins are software that run inside another application to enhance and extend the application’s capabilities. The application plug-ins run inside is called the “master application" or " host application”. Please see below for a list of supported master applications. In order to use the Plug-In version of Virtual Painter 5, you need either one of these.

If you have Photoshop Elements and install the Plug-In version, Virtual Painter 5 should be added under the Filter menu of Photoshop Elements. This means that while you work with Photoshop Elements, you can easily run Virtual Painter 5 and apply its artistic effects. You don't have to switch between the two applications, everything will be done within Photoshop Elements.