For PHOTO-TO-ART Fans (pt. 2): AI Photo & Art Enhancer

In a blog post a couple of weeks ago, I told you about the version 7 update to Mediachance’s Dynamic Auto Painter (DAP) for turning your photos into many different styles of traditional and modern artwork. This is great fun and another way to express yourself artistically, especially if you’re a photographer and not an Read more about For PHOTO-TO-ART Fans (pt. 2): AI Photo & Art Enhancer[…]

1-Click Image-to-Art Series Part 2: Topaz Studio>Impression (save 15%)

In the first post of this series we looked at Mediachance’s Dynamic Auto Painter. In response, one photo forum poster asked me how DAP compared to Topaz Studio. So let’s take a look! Topaz Studio is described as “The future of creative photo editing… with powerful filters and frictionless masking in a fine-tuned non-destructive layer Read more about 1-Click Image-to-Art Series Part 2: Topaz Studio>Impression (save 15%)[…]

1-Click Image-to-Art Series Part 1: Dynamic Auto Painter

Do you have the patience to paint like a real artist? Neither do I! Whether it’s the side of a barn or a small canvas, I’m just not going to bother with that… But I can take photos all day long, and I do love the look of “artsy” post-processing on my photos! So how Read more about 1-Click Image-to-Art Series Part 1: Dynamic Auto Painter[…]

I still can’t paint, but I can use DAP in Windows

In my last post I showed some examples of turning your photos into artwork using Topaz Impression, which is a cross-platform solution. Today I will show you something for Windows-only (unless you run a virtual machine on your Mac or use a Hackintosh, and I do both 😉 ): Dynamic Auto Painter (DAP). I don’t have Read more about I still can’t paint, but I can use DAP in Windows[…]

Don’t delete it!

In the course of taking your images, you are sure to generate a fair number of clunkers. Our common practice when later reviewing the results of a shoot on the computer is to delete all the ones with technical or other issues without giving it a second thought. Here’s an unretouched/uncropped example of an image Read more about Don’t delete it![…]