- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (32-use trial); $55.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: June 22, 2006
- Total Downloads: 58,757
- Downloads last week: 95
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 11 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
OK, so you can't really paint dramatic landscapes like the Renaissance greats, but Virtual Painter 5 can. The interface may lean toward the simplistic side, but the transformation of photo files into Van Goughesque oils, colorful pencil art, and sweeping water colors is impressive. Virtual Painter 5 gives you 16 artistic styles and 20 canvases to achieve your look, and lets you make further adjustments to focus, scale, and rendering, among other parameter. We prefer the sliding scale and numeric inputs of Expert mode to the vague descriptors of "subtle," "normal," "intense" in the standard adjustment pane. Tweaks to contrast, brush angle and brush size, and color spectrum are sorely missed, but despite that, playing around with the painterly modes is addictive. The trial's allotted 32-uses disappeared all too quickly.
Publisher's description
From P & A America :Turn your favorite digital photos into realistic looking paintings such as watercolor, oil painting, 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 open a digital photo, select one of the 16 painting styles, then click OK to let the application do the work for you. Version 5 has the quality of all the artistic filters has been drastically improved.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.6 stars out of 11 votes
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Virtual Painter 5.0
Pros: It goes beyond expectations, a work of art in programming. Demo is quite generous!
Cons: I do not know yet if this software uses paypal?
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Virtual Painter 5.0
Pros: better than anything :)
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Virtual Painter 5.0
"this is the software i wanted"
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Virtual Painter 5.0
Pros: It is a fun bit of software- has made some of my photos into quite interesting and colourful 'paintings'
Cons: Certain novelty factor about it for me- that will wear off. Definately wouldn't pay for this software. Some photos come out as a mess.
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Version: Virtual Painter 5.0
"Does an excellent job, if you need a quick painting effect."
Pros: Easy to use, many pictures looks great with the right settings.
Cons: The program can generate many painted picture type effects, but I find a lot of them I'll never use.
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