FotoSketcher & Xara Painting

[Ross Macintosh]

That's what I was attempting to do Ross, it sure used to be easier and less confusing.

Might be more of a problem with the forum software. The jpg/png files that wouldn't upload here for me opened fine in other software I have.

Kieth - your Filter Forge example looks good. I can achieve a similar rendering of the bridge in FotoSketcher but it won't have the stroked sky like you achieved in the same image. Interesting effect. I went to the Filter Forge site and see lots of beautiful images by users. I particularly like the softer more fluid effects but the painterly ones are very effective too. Being recently retired with ZERO income I'll have to pass on buying Filter Forge -- even though I really want to!



In my testing of the framed Elvis (impersonator) I found Windows 10 Home had installed a program called 'Paint 3D'. The attachment is a screenshot -- which seems to be the only way to export the 3D image it produces...