Virtual Painter for Windows

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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffNovember 7, 2008

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.

Virtual Painter for Windows

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GENERAL

Release: June 23, 2006

Latest update: November 7, 2008

Version: 5.0

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows ME
Windows 98
Windows 10

Additional Requirements: None

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 82,134

Downloads Last Week: 1

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User Reviews

4.2/5

11 User Votes

Does an excellent job, if you need a quick painting effect.
octiumMay 25, 2008
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.
Summary
Busco hacer portadas para mis libros
dealbamtyMay 15, 2008
Pros
this a software i want
Cons
Summary
Fun
frohmannMay 15, 2008
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.
Summary
Great
tunesloverMay 15, 2008
Pros
better than anything :)
Cons
Summary
this is the software i wanted
anmol_teja94March 11, 2008
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Summary
Creates wonderful watercolor effects
photobobbieDecember 24, 2007
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WONDERFUL
lollipopmanJuly 4, 2006
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?
Summary
Rocks!
Leahm37April 22, 2005
Pros
This program is for the artist and non-artist alike. For the artist it lets you pre-view the way your image will look done in lots of different media, (oil, watercolor, etc.) and also lets you tweak it to get something unique. For the non-artist, well, INSTANT ART, without the years of study!
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I loved it!
December 14, 2004
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It is a wonderful software, really enjoying using it. It is very easy to use and at the same time does great things. I couldn't imagine how easy it is to turn a photograph to a beautiful painting. Loved it!
Quite impressive filter
December 14, 2004
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I hope the developer release Mac version too!

Developer’s Description

By P & A America

Turn your digital photos into paintings of various styles and surfaces.

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.