Playing with Painter 12

Today I played around with Painter 12, which has been hanging out on my computer for a while. I made this piece by cloning two different versions of a photo I took today of some ferns. One version is color while the other was a b&w version of the same shot. I used a variety of cloning brushes to get different effects including a fibrous brush texture and a smeary oil effect. Painter is a really spectacular program for getting painterly effects with a mind numbing number of possible brushes and surfaces. I doubt I'll ever be worthy of its power.

Photograph worked in Painter 12

I recently upgraded my Painter software to version 12 so I decided to play around with some photos in the program today. Here is a Lubitel shot I took in Paris this past summer:

 I opened this image in Painter and then applied a woodblock effect to it. After that, I painted it with the different watercolor brushes available. This is the result:

I'm not very adept with the software so the end version isn't exactly what I was expecting. However, it was fun to mess around with the different brushes and watch the "drying" of the paint. Something different.