{"id":3713,"date":"2022-07-02T12:46:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T19:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2022-11-15T08:22:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T16:22:25","slug":"mac-users-dynamic-auto-painter-7-is-now-ready-for-native-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/mac-users-dynamic-auto-painter-7-is-now-ready-for-native-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac users: Dynamic Auto Painter 7 is now ready for native use!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Perhaps as a Mac user you’ve been following my previous blog posts<\/a> about Dynamic Auto Painter 7<\/a><\/strong>‘s recent release and came to realize it was for Windows only-! There were ways to deal with that such as using Windows virtualization through Parallels or VMware Fusion, but if you weren’t prepared to do that, you had to miss out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until now!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Dynamic Auto Painter 7<\/a><\/strong> (DAP) is now pre-built with WINE using WINESKIN, which means you do not need virtualization software<\/em> to use DAP under macOS (from Mojave through Ventura). This is a great convenience and the process works just fine, even on older Intel hardware or newer M1 chips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s what you will see (below). I tested Dynamic Auto Painter 7<\/a><\/strong> under both the macOS Monterey 12.5 and Ventura beta releases (the former on Intel, the latter on M1) without issue:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Now that you’ve heard the good news, let’s look at some artwork I just created with DAP 7 on my Intel Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the original of an iPhone 12<\/strong> image I shot of a post-lightning storm sunset in the LA area. While very nice on its own, it’s just begging for artsy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve told you before how easy this is: Load a photo into Dynamic Auto Painter 7<\/a><\/strong>, choose a preset, click Start… Your digital painting assistant begins work immediately. You can relax and watch passively or you can interactively join in the fun along the way by using your mouse to steer the effect where you want it. (The examples I’m showing today were all auto-created without my involvement during the process \u2013 I saved any adjustments for post-processing in Photoshop.)<\/p>\n\n\n

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A few moments later you have your results! This version was done using the dOrciaHD<\/strong> preset:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Maybe you like it, maybe you don’t, but that’s OK \u2013 art is subjective<\/em>. And you can always choose another preset and try again, or you can adjust any of the many settings presented to you in Dynamic Auto Painter 7<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of presets, of course a large selection is already included in DAP, but you can also download legacy presets made by users of the app as long as a decade ago \u2013 and they still work fine. The developer makes it easy:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Here’s how a small selection of these legacy presets looks:<\/p>\n\n\n

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And here is where they reside on your Mac (User>Documents>DAP>objectpacks>[your custom folder name]):<\/p>\n\n\n

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Let me take my chances again and show you more of my new Dynamic Auto Painter 7<\/a><\/strong> work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the original digital camera-sourced version of a sailboat off the coast of San Diego on a beautiful but boring-sky day:<\/p>\n\n\n

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After a quick trip through ON1’s PhotoRAW 2022<\/a><\/strong> to do a sky replacement, I was back into DAP with those results for the artsy treatment. This first option is an edited version of the Benson_v7<\/strong> preset:<\/p>\n\n\n

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This alternate version is a combination of results from the AbstractRealism, Benson_v7 and GrNovel(Aquarium)<\/strong> presets (combined together with layer blending mode effects in Photoshop):<\/p>\n\n\n

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Which is better? Who can say! It depends on your taste (which will differ from someone standing next to you, trust me…) and the intended final usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One last example, this time from a 35mm film source, shot in Victoria BC in the early ’90s. The original is shown below. (In my next blog post I’ll spend more time on the process I took with this particular image, doing distracting elements removal in Photoshop, noise reduction in Topaz DeNoise<\/a><\/strong> and sky replacement in ON1’s PhotoRAW 2022<\/a><\/strong> before posting it for print-on-demand use<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n

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And a couple of examples from Dynamic Auto Painter 7<\/a><\/strong> using (top) the Illustrator<\/strong> preset and (bottom) the Graphite_Smudge<\/strong> preset:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Dynamic Auto Painter 7<\/a><\/strong> is only limited by your imagination! Any style and effect is possible. Start with the presets and customize them as much as you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps as a Mac user you’ve been following my previous blog posts about Dynamic Auto Painter 7‘s recent release and came to realize it was for Windows only-! There were ways to deal with that such as using Windows virtualization through Parallels or VMware Fusion, but if you weren’t prepared to do that, you had Read more about Mac users: Dynamic Auto Painter 7 is now ready for native use!<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25,31,7,1],"tags":[189,1123,351,1122,860,220,816,198,1125,199,194,1129,1117,1127,1118,38,166,1120,1119,71,65,951,453,1121,193,899,1126,1128,818,1124],"class_list":["post-3713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-photography","category-post-processing","category-software","category-uncategorized","tag-artwork","tag-canada","tag-chinatown","tag-chinese","tag-clouds","tag-creative-effects","tag-dap","tag-dynamic-auto-painter","tag-emulation","tag-mediachance","tag-monet","tag-objectpacks","tag-paint-style","tag-parallels","tag-photo-to-art","tag-post-processing","tag-presets","tag-sailboat","tag-sailing","tag-san-diego","tag-sky-replacement","tag-sky-swap","tag-sunset","tag-the-gate-of-harmonious-interest","tag-van-gogh","tag-victoria-bc","tag-virtualization","tag-vmware-fusion","tag-wine","tag-wineskin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3957,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions\/3957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}