Smear the photo into brushed paint with pooled color and visible stroke ridges. Control the strength, compare the result, and download a finished image from your browser.
Review the available effect capabilities before you begin.
Color is smeared along the direction the picture is not changing in, so a brush stroke follows an edge rather than crossing it, and the smeared color is then pooled into a limited set of mixed tones. Where two strokes meet, the original edge comes back as the darker ridge of paint that a loaded brush leaves behind.
Upload a photo, adjust the Oil Paint intensity, compare its processed preview with the source, and download the finished result.
Use the intensity control to balance the Oil Paint treatment with the detail and character of your original photo.
A reduced Oil Paint preview keeps adjustments responsive. Free downloads are clean and web-size; Premium or a credit unlocks the original resolution.
Oil Paint uploads are processed on secure servers and automatically removed under the normal Pixoate retention policy.
Color is smeared along the direction the picture is not changing in, so a brush stroke follows an edge rather than crossing it, and the smeared color is then pooled into a limited set of mixed tones. Where two strokes meet, the original edge comes back as the darker ridge of paint that a loaded brush leaves behind.
Oil Paint runs as a classic image effect and does not use an AI action.
portrait gifts, canvas prints, album artwork, landscapes with clear structure, and turning a good photograph into wall art.
Less suited to: small text, fine jewellery and dense crowd scenes, where the strokes are wider than the detail and the picture loses the thing that made it interesting.
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