digital art plug-ins for AF?

[dotlyc]

I'm interested in finding out if there are any digital art plug-ins that work with Affinity Photo. I don't need anything too fancy but I'd be interested in plug-ins with filters that can create and customize a variety of "painterly" looks from photos.

 

If there's nothing that will do this as a plug-in, I'd be interested in recommendations for stand-alone programs that could be applied after an image is processed in Affinity and exported to a TIFF or PNG file.

[toltec]

This one is very well known for creating painting in the style of classic artists if you are really serious.

 

http://www.mediachance.com/dap/

 

There are online options to do it for free if you only need one or two done.

 

https://www.befunky.com/features/photo-to-art/

 

http://funny.pho.to/artistic-photo-effects/

 

Of course, photoshop has an oil paint filter but it looks a bit "overused".

[dotlyc]

toltec: Thanks for the references. I should have specified I'm working on a Mac. It looks like DAP is Windows only.

 

I'll check out the online options but I'm leaning more toward something I can use on my own computer.

[jer]

I saw this one on the Internet:

 

http://fotosketcher.com/about-fotosketcher/

 

Free (completely, or donate) for Windows, MAC version in the works. I have not tried it so cannot comment on quality or features. If you do, please let us know your results.

 

Edit: sorry, just saw you require Mac. Ask them for the Beta. :)

[MEB]

Hi dotlyc,

You can also try Topaz Simplify.

[jer]

Edit: sorry, just saw you require Mac. Ask them for the Beta. :)

 

Eh, what the heck! I got a 13.5 yr old cat that needs immortalizing. Maybe I'll try fotosketcher on my Win 10 system.

[dotlyc]

Hi dotlyc,

You can also try Topaz Simplify.

 

Thanks for reminding of this. I actually have the Topaz suite of plug-ins but when I first got Affinty Photo, there was a problem getting AP to recognize them and I forgot about them. I just tried installing all the plug-ins and most of them work, including Simplify. These provide more than enough options for my needs. You just saved me a lot of time and expense. :-)