Hello Everyone, I am trying to take an image I made in Poser look like an oil painting in progress. What I have attached is the original image ( on the left ) and the version I tried to "oil painting" up. FOr paint program, I only have Micrografx Picture Publisher, but shall have AUra in a few days when it arrives. Any hints or suggestions would be invaluable to me. Another thing I could use help with is how to make a painting "frame" for use in poser. I want to have the "painting" framed, even though an unfinished painting would never be framed. Then I need to make the painting and its frame, a prop for Poser 4...but I am lost as to how to do it. Thanks everyone.. Eryk

1. Set the entire image texture to "canvas" in your art program. 2) Have some portions very crisp and complete. Many times I'll finish a portion of a painting before moving on. This is especially true of faces, hands, or other bothersome details that can become obsessive. I love the "charcoal" sketchs of his feet. Excellent touch.

PaintShop Pro hab been bery good to me: Lasso (feather..20, anti-alias) around edges. Image, Motion blur (slant angle, and strength-40) Image, Dilate, Gaussian blur...1, Edge Enhance. Image, Effects...texture, canvas, depth 3. eng Lovely work on your part, by the way.

You might try the canvas setting and instead of going full B&W you might overlay the thing in photoshop or something similar as a partial ... so you see both. Good luck

Thanks for the complement Tygercub, glad you like it. :) Canvus...ahhhh yes! Great idea, I can't believe that thought never even crossed my mind. But, with the 3 of you mentioning it, I will jump right not it. grumbles at self for not thinking of that one Engelken, thanks for the image, that really helps me to visualize how it should look. I actually have paint shop pro (5, I think), so I can try those effects. Ghostofmacbeth (cool name, BTW), my room mate suggested that same thing, perhaps I should give that a whirl after all. Thanks for all your help everyone. I'll try this stuff out and be back begging for help if it doesn't look right...although I bet it will. Take care all, Eryk

Before you do all that canvas texturing you might consider this for your original image: When I imagine an oil painting in progress I don't imagine that the artist started at the top of the charcoal sketch and worked in finished detail until they got to the bottom. You started the idea with your smudged edge, just take it further. Consider letting part of the chair only have a few intitial layers of paint or have the lower part have a little more base coat before revealing blank canvas and charcoal. Nice lighting! good luck

Deci6el, very good point. Hummmm..that may be a bit beyond my abilities at this point. I am very new to art work in general, let alone this 3d stuff. But..it sure can't hurt to try. Thanks very much.. ---Eryk