Oil Painting
Turn any photo into an oil painting: pick the brush size, add passes for a flatter, more painterly picture, and lay it on a woven canvas.
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Turn any photo into an oil painting: pick the brush size, add passes for a flatter, more painterly picture, and lay it on a woven canvas.
or browse filesdrop an image here or paste
An oil painting is made of dabs: within a brush stroke the colour is flat, and between strokes the edges are crisp. This oil painting effect and filter rebuilds a photo that way - a photo editor step that makes any picture look like it was painted, and a good starting file for an oil print. For every pixel it looks at the four brush-sized patches that meet there and takes the colour of the calmest one, so textures like skin, foliage, water and sky settle into solid patches of paint while the outlines of a face, a roofline or a horizon stay sharp - the opposite of a blur, which softens everything alike. Drag Brush size to choose how broad the dabs are: small for a detailed, fine-brush picture, large for a bold palette-knife look. It renders live on the stage, and the i-button reports the brush size in screen pixels and in pixels of the saved file.
Passes runs the painter over its own result again. One pass keeps most of the photo's detail and reads as a light painterly filter; two or three flatten the picture into larger, simpler shapes, closer to an impressionist painting than a photo. Canvas texture lays a woven cloth pattern over the paint - the over-and-under threads of a stretched canvas - which is what makes a print of the result look like it came off an easel rather than a screen. Try a big brush, two passes and the canvas for the full photo-to-oil-painting-on-canvas look.
The painting saves at the photo's full resolution, brush size scaled to match what you saw on screen. PNG keeps every dab exactly; JPG and WebP are smaller and fine for sharing or for sending to a canvas-print service. Copy puts the painting on the clipboard, and Share on a phone sends it straight to a chat or a post.
Portraits, wedding photos and family pictures are the usual subjects for a painting, and none of them leave your device here. The filter runs in the browser's own canvas, in bands so that even a 12-megapixel photo is painted without a server; the download is built in memory.
A blur averages a pixel with everything around it, so edges soften. This filter averages only within the calmest brush-sized patch next to the pixel, and at an edge the calm patch is always on one side, so the edge stays. Flat areas get flat, edges stay sharp: the two properties of paint on canvas.
It depends on the photo's size and subject. On a phone photo, 4 to 6 gives fine brushwork with faces still readable; 8 to 12 gives broad palette-knife dabs. The brush is set in screen pixels and scaled up for the full-size download, so the file looks like the preview.
Yes. Raise Passes to 2 or 3 and use a bigger brush. Each pass merges neighbouring dabs into larger shapes and removes the last photographic grain.
Yes. The preview is computed at screen size for speed, and the download is painted at the photo's full resolution in horizontal bands, so a 12-megapixel picture takes a few seconds but is never downsized.
No. The whole effect runs in the browser on your device; the photo is never uploaded and no copy is kept anywhere.