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- scotchw, on 05/29/2009, -2/+57Haven't PS filters been doing this for, like, 15 years?
- KISSOLOGY, on 05/29/2009, -1/+20Set sails for n00b island.
- raustin, on 05/29/2009, -1/+14i think this tool is for those without Photoshop, like moms and grandparents.
- StigNordas, on 05/29/2009, -1/+12With a name like PsykoPaint, I was expecting to see a photo of Hannibal or Charles Manson. Or maybe a unicorn. All three would look lovely in brush strokes.
- chadsmith729, on 05/29/2009, -0/+10Well said, it's exactly what I thought when I first saw it. It's actually 22 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop
- nimawin, on 05/29/2009, -2/+11what is this? 1996? first of all, who would want that anymore? it's so cheesy and lame. second, ummm.. photoshop has been enabling amateur designers do that for decades. give it a rest. think about all that money and effort they put into building that website. thumbs down for me
- Frostek, on 05/29/2009, -0/+8Any setting I tried just smeared everything in the picture into a blurry mess.
Possibly if you spend a few hours on each picture you might get something, or if you are already a talented artist, but I can't imagine any ordinary person getting anything out of the program at all.
Looks great, until you try it. :-( - NoozeHound, on 05/29/2009, -0/+8So calling it anything other than Psko Paint is the first step in re-branding.
- asssa3000, on 05/29/2009, -0/+6Well you may be right but PS is not free and it is not not web based.
- PhrosTT, on 05/29/2009, -0/+6i think the point is these look like ***** and people learned to never use those photoshop functions a long time ago.
putting into a web app doesn't change that. - decker12, on 05/29/2009, -0/+5Note that your end result will look like *****, probably because your original photo looked like *****.
- TBombadil, on 05/29/2009, -0/+3like photoshop, or the gimp, only lame
- sdipaola, on 05/29/2009, -0/+3Non photo-realistic rendering ( and painter rendering) is still a big research area ( Adobe has a resaerch group in Seattle on it - HP has a research group in UK for cameras). The interesting thing about is -- artists can take something that is real and correct ( a photograph of a person say) and distort it ( more incorrect) in a way that we as humans prefer by emphasising the important and leaving out the less important among other things - one theory is that they are exploiting how our brain works ( vision and perception). I am working from the perspective and have a paper about how Rembrandt intuited vision science. Anyway I have a page of some early results with our system ( portrait konwledge based automatic process - java code), we are still working away to make it better.
http://www.dipaola.org/painterly/results08/ - NoozeHound, on 05/29/2009, -0/+3To paraphrase my learned Diggers above, Meh.
- VegasAlive, on 05/29/2009, -0/+3dugg for diabetis
- hawk196, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2THE FILTER WILL NEVER LOSE
- jwolcott, on 05/30/2009, -0/+2In other news, PerfectCircles.com allows you to draw perfect circles with your mouse. You can even choose your own color!
- Philbert, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2http://photoshop.com is flash based I believe, but it doesn't really have any filters, I just checked. However Gimp is free and does accept Photoshop filters, many of which are available free online.
- PeterFile, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2Haven't photo booths been doing this for years too?
- peutichat, on 05/30/2009, -0/+2Hello, i am the developer of this program,
i am kind of upset by your comments really,
first of all this is not a big company doing this, it is just me, flash developer living in London, i don't have lots of pretention replacing photoshop or anything like that. I just want a simple tool that can transform photo into paintings and i believe it is quite different from photoshop. First of all Photoshop is photo editing software, you have to dowload it, and it is far from being simple to use for everybody. Secondly this is quite different in the way the image is processed, in photoshop we process the pixels in psykopaint we paint using colors of an image, the idea and result is massively different. Thirdly if it looks like ***** than it is probably that you don't know how to use it yet, i am sure the first time you opened photoshop in your life it didn't look so great, and psykopaint is really like any new tool to learn, it takes a bit time before you do something good. Blame yourself, not the software.
It takes a bit courage to just be curious, what i think is lame is the narrow-mindedness that you have, not this software. Thanks. - hmphargh, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2Its like those crappy photo booths at the mall that will "paint" your portrait so you can give it to your grandma.
- Bodminzer, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2A web based suite offering photoshop like filters you say? Aviary!? What the ***** is that, I'd much rather turn my images into fingerpaintings if its all the same with you.
- thunderflash, on 05/30/2009, -0/+2Are you ***** kidding me? why the hell is this on Digg?
- jeremymccurdy, on 05/30/2009, -0/+2Buried for being something that Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro have been doing for over a decade along side being fully featured image editing suites.
- asozansky, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2pretty lame and pointless.
- Plakband, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2Dude, i think it's awesome you made this app. The way i see it, it's just something for fun. No need for photoshop for some filter effects, and pretty easy to use.
Don't know what people are complaining about since there are no remarks on the site about being a replacement or whatever. Digg sucks sometimes. I think you have to be pretty narrowminded not to see a just-for-fun project. Kinda gives me the idea everyone prefers photoshop over almost every other application. Seems weird because of the steep price of € 1000,- but still everyone has it.
@ thunderflash, this is far from the worst being posted on digg. Not everything may be to your liking, But don't forget not everyone is like you.
At least appreciate someones dedication to spending some time into something else than World of Warcraft or other time-wasters. - Philbert, on 05/29/2009, -1/+3They already have that http://www.photoshop.com
- Citruspers, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1Sounds great indeed, but my result was horrible. It turned one of my photos into...crap, basically.
- NickLee808, on 05/30/2009, -0/+1...and phasers to FAIL.
- arthursk, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1what is with all these flash errors lately... am I going crazy or is any one else getting tons of these?
- BlueCadenza, on 05/30/2009, -0/+1Awesome comment. Rembrandt was a genius. Its fascinating that this sometimes means that you have a connection to nature and patterns that you just "get" something that others may never even be able to understand by studying.
(that automated process is astounding btw, would be a crazy expensive PS filter) - KGtheway2B, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1For a much more powerful similar form of this check out: FilterForge ( www.filterforge.com )
Here's a great example http://www.filterforge.com/gallery/7.html - scotchw, on 05/30/2009, -0/+1It's... not.... free...? What are you talking about?
@nishalspace
I have no idea what you were trying to say, but dugg - Citruspers, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1Well, there is a version on their site that uses Adobe Air? No substitute for the real thing though.
- RunningboardV2, on 05/30/2009, -0/+1"We said 'meh'...m.e.h."
- MasterGrief, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1lame does mp3s
- mrBitch, on 05/30/2009, -0/+1RE: the watercolor of venice example :
http://www.filterforge.com/gallery/7.html
That is the best digital photo to watercolor result I have ever seen... - jwolcott, on 05/30/2009, -1/+1See below.
- futonpimp, on 05/29/2009, -0/+0yeah seriously...what a complete waste of money
- B1665r, on 05/29/2009, -0/+0Actually... and I will be dug down for this... Yes photoshop has things like this, but the renewed trend is is caused by Corel Photo Paint, because it has one of these that is.. you know... good.
- NickLee808, on 05/30/2009, -1/+1Wait, people PAY for Photoshop?
- peutichat, on 05/30/2009, -0/+0Your researchs are absolutely amazing!
I think the artistic sensibility comes with the differences or what we would call errors between the reality and outcome,that are sometimes conscious or not, i am trying in psykopaint to emphasize those 'errors' by making it as simple as possible to achieve but leave this process to a human cause i think feeling is not something that can be encapsulated into an algorithm. And i think that is the huge difference between filters like photoshop ones which are algorythm with few controls (what people who didn't check the software are talking about) and psykopaint in which it's human filter.
Mathieu. developer of Psykopaint - perfunction, on 05/29/2009, -2/+1Very impressive use of Flex/Flash/AS3. But I'll never use it again.
- nishalspace, on 05/29/2009, -1/+0gosh !!! this is just okie, title is unexpectedly different than actual content. Mathematics and aesthetics must be concentric at some point of time.
- chadsmith729, on 05/29/2009, -4/+2Oh it's an online version of Photoshop. Great!
- nishalspace, on 05/29/2009, -4/+1but not the GIMP, PS is a feature not a brand if you use of MS that cause bucks, at the same time Richard Stallman exist, aah :)
- Nickolassc, on 05/29/2009, -7/+3I hate prickin my fingahs! With this device on my arm, I don't have to go through the hassle. It even talks to me!
- Demens, on 05/29/2009, -8/+2These are not just plain filters that distort the image. Just for example, try the vector mode and notice how the end result depends on your skill and gifts as an artist.
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