Alien Skin make a nice bunch of filters under the title of
Snap Art 3; one of which is oil painting. I'm still dithering about whether or not to use Photoshop since CS3 (which I own) is outdated and going defunct, and Photoshop CC (PSCC) is more than my machine can handle (not enough RAM for the 3D filter).
I have a set of actions that use the Oil Paint filter in PSCC which is not a part of CS3, so I tried to find an old one and Alien Skin is what I came up with. I am amazed at what these plug in do in the default settings. Here's a couple of examples (in close up).
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Default "Oil Paint, Abstract (colorful)" filter with a minor tweak of making the strokes shorter. |
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Default "Oil Paint" filter with no tweaks. Dig the texture! |
These filters are to supposed to require PS CS4. But they work in my CS3.
Still undecided.