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DIGITAL PAINTING

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Push-button conversions of a portrait of Henri Matisse in Photoshop.

Carl van Vechten, Matisse
Original portrait of Henri Matisse by Carl van Vechten, 1933

Matisse, conversion
As a cut out

Matisse, conversion2
As a craquelure

Matisse, conversion3
As a sponge watercolor

The larger painting programs usually feature a number of push-button filters for transforming an image. By applying a filter, a painting or photo can be made to look like a water color, an oil painting, a charcoal painting or a mosaic, to mention just a few options. Texture and brushstrokes can be applied, and the image can be distorted in several ways. The use of a filter can be recognized by its regularity. Consider the 47 different filters of Photoshop, applied to the same small image of a boat in the water:


texture
Filters for texture (above)

artistic
Artistic filters (above)

brush strokes
Filters for brush strokes (above)

distortion
Distortion filters (above)

sketch
Sketch filters (above)

color
Color filter (above)


Push-button paint-over of a photo, with choice of style, in Psykopaint:

original photo
Before: a photograph


photo conversion
After: a 'painting'


styles
Choice of styles for the 'painting' (Psykopaint)


In computer generated art, the user can play with parameters for forms and colors. The software calculates and constructs the resulting image:

fractal
Rules entered by the artist


fractal image
Picture generated by the software using the rules above


fractal image
More complex rules and images (fractals) in Google


fractal image
Cave diving, computer generated image in ChaosPro


fractal image
Fantasia, computer generated image in ChaosPro


fractal image
Prisma, computer generated image in ChaosPro


fractal image
Silver star, computer generated image in ChaosPro


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Computer generated image in Mandelbulber


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Computer generated image in Mandelbulber


For a detailed overview of painting styles by software and painting apps, visit: A Blog appArt, an overview of styles and features of apps and painting software by Ben Guerette





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