I have tried making paintings from photos and Poser renders but the results are dismall. The tutorials I have found on the art history brush do not help make that tool of any use to me unfortunately. I have had better luck taking snapshots of filtered images and compositing them with the history brush with different settings and tips... but really I am not doing well. So far the best is carefull smudging or just painting with eyedrop sampled color but the results can be either surreal or flat as the case mightbe. I wish the smudge fingerpaint would alt-key to eyedropper. Anyone have advise for a "hand painted rather than filter aproach to paintingafying pictures...