Design

Psykopaint Adds Striking Paint Effects To Your Photos

If you have a photo that could stand for a little artistic flair, Psykopaint is a feature-rich, web-based virtual painting tool.

Source image by freebird.

Psykopaint is definitely not a traditional editing tool, so if you’re looking to make more standard image adjustments, check out previously reviewed SUMO Paint. Psykopaint is focused exclusively on recreating paint effects and paint textures.

You can fine-tune the brushes you use by setting the minimum and maximum width of the brush, so each brush stroke will be unique and vary in width based on your parameters. You can also adjust the highlights and shadows for the brush strokes, the blending mode, and how strongly it will mix the colours it pulls from your source photo. Psykopaint currently limits images to 1000px by 1000px, and will scale any image you upload to fit within those constraints.

Pysckopaint [via DownloadSquad]

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  • Argentum

    Sounds neat! *goes off to try*
    Watch me waste a ton of time on this. xD

  • Dai Tryon

    @haydenphb: WAY TO GO!

    Dai Tryon

  • haydenphb

    ONE MORE TIME! [tinyurl.com]

  • haydenphb

    Or that one (angryface). Try this one [tinyurl.com]

  • haydenphb

    I guess that link didn't work :-(. Try this one: [tinyurl.com]

  • haydenphb

    You know, I guess you could use this program to trick out a made-it-yourself wallpaper even more than just Photoshop. For more instructions, go here: [tinyurl.com]

  • ADiSH

    Very cool

  • Urchin089

    @haydenphb: That's what I was hoping I could do but the final image size is way too small to make good wallpaper with. Hopefully they will increase it to something larger soon.

    Urchin089

  • jaxun

    This is awesome! I've used Corel Painter forever, and this has some of the same features as the cloner tool.

    I can see parking on this site for entire afternoons.

  • haydenphb

    @Urchin089: Remember to take the picture fullscreen and, in Photoshop, enlarge to the size you want. Photoshop is pretty good at enlarging without pix elating an image.

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