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Oil Painting Effect

Brush strokes and detail

The Brush Size controls the radius of the painterly smoothing effect. Lower values preserve fine detail, making it ideal for portraits. Higher values simplify the image into bold, expressive color masses.

This edge-preserving filter intelligently smooths textures while maintaining sharp boundaries. It creates a convincing oil painting effect without the muddy blurring found in basic photo filters.

Paint vibrance

Paint Vibrance boosts the color saturation before the brush strokes are applied. This simulates the rich, heavily pigmented look of actual oil paints.

Keep it low for a muted, natural result, or increase it for a bold, gallery-style aesthetic. Use this alongside the brush size to convert a photo to an oil painting online free of charge.

Canvas texture

Canvas Texture Opacity overlays a subtle woven fabric pattern onto the image. This adds physical realism, giving the digital oil painting the appearance of a physical artwork on stretched linen.

Adjust the opacity to match the scale of your image. A moderate texture often provides the most convincing final result.

Frequently Asked Questions

JPEG, PNG, and WebP. The exported file keeps the same format as the original image.

No. , so your image stays on your device.

Brush Size controls how broad and painterly the smoothing becomes. Smaller values keep more detail, while larger values create chunkier, more stylized brush-like regions.

Paint Vibrance boosts color saturation before the painterly filter is applied, helping the result feel richer, warmer, and more like fresh paint on canvas.

It overlays a subtle woven canvas pattern on top of the final image, giving the artwork more material character and a traditional painted-on-fabric feel.

Yes. Once the page is loaded (or installed as a PWA), the processing can work offline because the effect runs fully client-side.

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