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Turn Photo into Painting: Oil and Watercolor Photo to Painting Converter

Upload a photo, choose Oil Painting or Watercolor, and get a photo to painting conversion from SoftOrbits AI, ready to download.

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Picture to Painting Converter for Windows

The upload tool above offers two presets and uses SoftOrbits AI credits. On Windows, you get 12 painting presets and 9 artistic style models, with Batch Mode to convert many photos on your own PC.

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Presets for Oil Painting Styles

Oil Painting has 6 presets, from Relief to High Contrast; Watercolor and Impressionism have 3 each. Pick a preset and adjust the sliders for thicker strokes or more detail.

Batch Mode

To convert a group of photos, choose your settings in Batch Mode and convert them all at once. You'll find the results in your destination folder.

Visual Watermarks

If you want to protect your paintings, be sure to use the watermark feature to add your signature or watermark. This will enable you to share them on social media without having to worry that someone will take them without authorization.

Examples

Drag each divider to compare the original photo with the painting. The first example shows strokes on skin in a portrait; the other three show wood and water.

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Photo to painting example 1.
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Photo to painting example 6.
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Why Turn a Photo into a Painting?

Most people turn photos into paintings for a gift or for a portrait of a pet to hang on the wall. The result is a digital painting made by software, not a canvas painted by an artist. To hang it, print the file on canvas or art paper at a print shop.

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Paintings from photos make good gifts

You can personalize a gift with a custom painting from a photo. You can come up with painting gift ideas, such as converting a photo of grandchildren, children, or a favorite pet.

You can create an oil portrait of your friend.

After you take a photo, you can create oil painting portraits.

You can make a greeting card or a poster

Image to painting converter is a creative way to have fun with these items.

Painting Presets

The Windows program sorts its presets into 4 styles of digital art.

Oil Painting

To convert a photo to an oil painting on Windows, use the 6 oil presets: they lay brush strokes over a canvas texture. Choose from 8 brush shapes, including a circle and a heart.

Watercolor

The 3 watercolor presets, including Abstraction and Small Details, give soft edges and washed-out color.

Pointillism / Impressionism

Impressionism uses short dabs of color that blend at a distance. The Spots preset gives the closest pointillism look.

Convert a Photo to Oil Painting or Watercolor Online

The upload box at the top opens your photo in SoftOrbits AI, our web app, with Oil Painting selected. For softer color, switch to Watercolor. Each conversion uses credits from your SoftOrbits AI account. Download your finished picture there.

Custom Artistic Filter

The 9 style models repaint your photo after well-known artworks, including Van Gogh's Starry Night and Munch's The Scream. They download when you first open the Artistic presets.

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How to Convert a Picture to a Painting: Step-by-Step Guide

On Windows, you convert a picture to a painting in 4 steps.

Choose Add File to add photos

Add photos to convert together. You can open JPG, PNG, BMP and TIFF files, plus camera RAW such as CR2, NEF and DNG.

Add photo.

Select the preset and preview it

Pick a preset from the list grouped by style and check the preview.

  • Artistic style models such as Starry Night and Mosaic
  • Oil Painting
  • Watercolor
  • Impressionism

Picture to painting presets.

Change the drawing settings to make it perfect

In the settings panel, adjust brush shape and stroke thickness. Detail level and stroke count control how busy your painting looks; canvas texture sets the surface under the paint.

Picture to drawing settings.

Save or run Batch Mode for multiple pictures

You can Save the converted photo, or you can run Batch Mode to convert a group of photos in one pass.

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Batch Mode

Batch Mode applies the selected painting preset to every photo in the list and saves the results to your output folder. It works in the trial and comes with the Pro license.

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Features

SoftOrbits Picture to Painting Converter makes oil paintings and watercolors on your own PC. Large photos and long batches do not depend on your connection.

Easy to use presets
Customize the painting appearance
Add your logo or text watermark
Bulk processing
Crop and rotate the photo before painting
Picture to Painting Converter
Picture to Painting Converter
Price
from $ 19.99 / month
Version
9.1
File Size
48.2 Mb
Last updated on
21/09/26
System Requirements
  • Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7 (32/64 bit)
  • Intel i3, AMD Ryzen 5 or above
  • 4 GB of RAM or above
  • NVIDIA® GeForce® series 8 and 8M, Intel® HD Graphics 2000, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX 5600, AMD Radeon™ R600, Mobility Radeon™ HD 4330, Mobility FirePro™ series, Radeon™ R5 M230 or higher graphics card with up-to-date drivers
  • 1280 × 768 screen resolution, 32-bit color
  • 1 GB of free hard disk space or above

Frequently Asked Questions

Upload a JPG or PNG photo in the box at the top of this page. It opens in SoftOrbits AI with the Oil Painting preset selected, or you can switch to Watercolor. Run the conversion with your credits, then download the result. For more styles or a whole set of photos, install Picture to Painting Converter on Windows and click Add File.

No. SoftOrbits AI and the Windows program both apply a painting effect to your photo with software. You get a digital image. If you want a physical piece, print it on canvas at a print shop. Hand-painted portraits are a separate service that artists sell.

21 presets instead of 2, and more control. The program has 12 painting presets in three styles plus 9 artistic style models. Sliders control the strokes and the canvas texture. Batch Mode handles many photos at once, and you can add a watermark. The PC program does not use credits.

Choose the closest of the 21 presets and adjust it in the Windows program. Fewer strokes and thicker brushes give a looser, more painterly result. Higher detail keeps faces and small objects recognizable. Canvas texture adds a real canvas weave under the paint.

Try the 9 Artistic style models in the Windows program. Mosaic and Candy give a flat, graphic look closer to illustration than oil painting. For a lighter, poster-like picture, try Watercolor with the Abstraction preset.

Not with this program: it makes paintings, not pencil drawings. For a sketch or line drawing, use Photo to Sketch Converter.

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