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Photographic Paintings of Tonle Sap: FotoSketcher

Posted on August 2, 2010January 5, 2011 by Ānandajoti

In earlier posts I have shown some of the tools I am using to output panoramic photographs and make videos out of them. Here I will show a great software that can make “paintings” out of your photos. The software is FotoSketcher, which is a free download for Windows machines.

The programme is very versatile and can produce many different sorts of effects, including pencil sketches, ink drawings, and different types of paintings. Here I will show how I made one sort of painting. This is a naturalistic photo I took of a rose when I was in Sri Lanka:

Pink Rose

I then processed it using FotoSketcher, using the “Painting 3 (median + bilateral filter)” setting, and this is the result:

Pink Rose Painted

Which is quite a good effect and does I think look like it has been painted. The photograph that I use for the theme of this blog (top of the page) was also “painted” from a photograph I took at Borobudur in the same way.


Using the programme I “painted” a number of photographs I had taken on Tonle Sap, and then panned and zoomed them in the Digital Clip Factory, which I discussed last week, and here is the result:

[flv image=”https://dharma-records.buddhasasana.net/images/Tonle-Sap-Paintings/04-Houses-Reduced.jpg”]https://www.archive.org/download/Photographic-Paintings-of-Tonle-Sap/Photographic-Paintings-of-Tonle-Sap_512kb.mp4[/flv]

The music is by Tootaton, who accompanied Ajahn Suthep on his recent retreat here, and also played music while the retreatants were meditating. I hope to feature more of his music in the future.

Here are the photos from the video, which I have not published elsewhere, they are linked to somewhat higher definition versions of the same:

Village Scene

Village Scene

Village Scene

Village Scene

Houses

Houses

Houses

Houses

Lake View

Lake View

Fishing Nets

Fishing Nets

Village Scene

Village Scene

House

House

Fisherman

Fisherman

1 thought on “Photographic Paintings of Tonle Sap: FotoSketcher”

  1. rutuja says:
    May 11, 2012 at 10:05 pm

    super stuff… *superlike*

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