I'm trying to make a digital photo look like a painting using all kinds of programs, how can I do it best?

I have GIMP, Picasa, Photoshop 7 (which I don't know how to use), ACDSee and Photo express 3. I tried all sort of stuff but it's never quite what I'm trying to get.


If you have any tutorials or simple instructions please put them here.I'm trying to make a digital photo look like a painting using all kinds of programs, how can I do it best?
Gimp ~image editor,


http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.h…


Adobe - Photoshop CS3


http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/…


Picasa Album viewer


http://picasa.google.com/


ACDSee Photo Editor


http://store.acdsee.com/store/acd/en_US/…





gimp, photoshop, and acdsee have some artistic filter you can apply to image for painting effects, picasa has some effects, yet not for art paint effects, by combining any of your results you could achieve what you wanted, there are also texture filter options like canvas that you can apply with paint effect,


..I'm trying to make a digital photo look like a painting using all kinds of programs, how can I do it best?
http://www.photoartomation.com/ArtWork/pages/05_4_Gothic.htm

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go into photoshop and find the filter tab. try a bunch of different filters on it. paintbrush might be the one you want.