Category: digital painting
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In my last post, I shared the workflow I use when preparing one of my photos for autopainting. In this post, I’ll share the very different results achieved by four different autopainting applications on Windows – and also my own final version of the same painting. My own final version combines multiple approaches, layered and…
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One of the pitfalls of autopainting software is its tendency to be literal. If a detail is in the photo, the programme includes it. If the photo is under or overexposed, if the horizon is squint, or if the buildings have converging verticals, then all of those elements will be carried forward into the finished…
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These days everything is about AI, but before neural style transfer came along there was a small, lively scene of procedural painting engines. These programs used algorithms to turn photos into digital paintings. Some have since been abandoned, while others are still being developed. All of them are great fun to explore. Here are some…
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A recent article in Amateur Photographer described post-processing as the most ignored part of photography. In my experience, that’s very true. Among my photography-minded friends, the folk who prefer their photographs straight out of camera significantly outnumber those who tweak and tinker with their images. Is either approach to be preferred over the other? Well…
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