I recently started playing around again with digital effects to make photographs look like paintings. I have played with this using Photoshop from time to time. I happened to see someone mention a free painting effects program called PhotoSketcher, in an online photography discussion forum. I downloaded and started playing with this program and was quite impressed with the capability of this free program. Below are a few examples that I worked on. The first image in each pair is the original photograph. The second image is the digitally modified image.
