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We all enjoy creating works of art from our photographs by applying filter effects, but there are almost too many third party filter manufactures and many amateurs creating them too. Many are not so good and what they do to our images could hardly be called art, but there are some exceptions. A filter system that we use ourselves is the Alien Skin range and the set that interests us here is their Snap Art set. From this filter set we demonstrate how to apply a oil painted look to your images and the effect is very good. What we particularly like about Alien Skin filters is that we have a number of preset effects we can choose from and from there, many more ways to adjust the effects, so we create something a little more unique.

For these types of effects we need to choose a bold image and this one above meets those requirements both in the content and the colours. What is also good with the Alien Skin filters is that when you find a filter combination that you particularly like you can save the settings and apply them to other images again and again. No point in reinventing the wheel is there and we like this option within the Snap Art Range. We have created our final image here quite large, but of course you cannot see it quite the same here as you will in the high resolution finished image. We have included this image with the download along with our starting image too. Remember these are not copyright free images and are supplied to enable you to follow the tutorial with our images if you wish.

As an alternative we have a dedicated video tutoral disk that covers filter effects HERE Although we used Photoshop CS-3 to record the videos on this disk, the tutorials are valid for Photoshop CS-4 too.

Download our readme file HERE