Creating a painted look for your images in Lightroom is just as easy as using this lightweight and user-friendly software altogether.
While Lightroom is generally perceived as a more lightweight alternative to the rather intimidating Photoshop, its powerful photo editing capacities will not fail to impress you.
Simply import the image of your choice, then unleash your creativity and play with highlights, shadows, exposure, contrast, and luminance until you are satisfied with the painting effect you achieved.
Let’s quickly look at its key features:
- Comprehensive toolkit to edit, store, organize and share your photos across any device
- Versatile tools including sliders and presets
- Your work is automatically saved into the cloud and updated everywhere
- Interactive in-app tutorials, plus inspirational materials designed by professionals
- AI-powered imagery solutions to automatically recognize people and themes
Adobe Lightroom
Light and friendly, this powerful app will satisfy all your editing needs.
Corel PaintShop Pro is a greatly powerful photo editing app that has a great range of photo effects that allows you to easily transform your photo into a painting, by using the automated Pic-to-Painting presets.
The Pic-to-Painting presets can be downloaded directly from the Welcome Tab found in PaintShop and then can be accessed by going to Effects, and then Plugins.
PaintShop Pro has such a wide range of features, that it is hard to choose which of them are worth presenting, but here are the most notable options.
Let’s quickly look at its key features:
- Artificial intelligence processing
- 360° photo editing
- Great performance, stability, and features
- User-friendly UI with easy to access customization options
- Great set of photo editing tools with layer-based editing
- Can add different textures, brushes, drawing and painting tools
- Quick fixes for photos – crop, straighten, resize, retouch, etc.
- Remove imperfection from your image
- Support for 64-bit versions of third-party plugins – Topaz Labs, Nik Collection by DXO, Adobe, etc.
Need a helping hand? Here’s a full guide on how to turn your photos into paintings using PaintShop Pro.
With filter controls, neat presets, and countless photo editing features, you can achieve a wide range of creative photo effects in Luminar 4.
Reproducing the painted look is not much difficult than a walk in the part with this amazingly versatile and highly adaptable tool.
Luminar 4 lays artificial intelligence at your fingertips, allowing you to create stunning artwork that truly reflects your vision.
By further adding layers and textures you can produce dramatically dynamic photography with special effects to dazzle.
Let’s quickly look at its key features:
- Customizable user interface with easily accessible functions and neatly organized workspaces
- Non-destructive editing and native RAW support
- Comprehensive editing tools including presets, layers, filters, masks, and more
- Batch processing, Photo Enhancer, and Color photo editor
- Extensive library of plug-ins to further personalize your workspace
Because we can’t all afford to hire an oil or watercolor painter to manually transform our photos into paintings, you can use good software that allows you to do just that.
If you have the required experience and you also need a wide range of customization options and features, you might want to start with Adobe Photoshop or Corel PaintShop Pro.
This list encompasses software options with batch processing, pre-made templates, and also custom effects racks that will surely cover all your creative needs.
Let us know which software you chose to use by reaching for the comments section below.
FAQ: Learn more about photo editing software
- How do you turn a picture into a painting?
You can turn a photo into a painting by using specialized software. Take a look at this guide with the best software to turn photos into paintings.
- How do I turn a picture into a pencil sketch?
Most modern image editors provide the tools to convert a photo into a pencil sketch. Find in our guide the best software to turn a photo into a line drawing.
- Which photo editing software is best for beginners?
We recommend you to use one of these great photo editing software solutions that have plenty of features and intuitive tools.
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in January 2019 and was revamped and updated in January 2021 for freshness, accuracy, and comprehensiveness.
This post was written by Milan Stanojevic and was first posted to WindowsReport