(quoted from post at 03:10:54 03/13/16) 2 or 3 years ago, someone posted pictures of tractors which he had treated with a computer programme to look like oil paintings.I have the chance to turn some old photographs into such pictures, but have lost the programme. Can anyone help, please? The pictures are of a farmer in our village in the early 1920s on his new Fordson tractor and his family would like to see a picture so treated on the wall in the kitchen.
I don't do a lot of altering photos beyond cropping, sharpness, color, etc. And I don't normally use Windows (programs).
Google Picasa is free, has basic effects, not a lot, probably not oil. It is being discontinued and they will stop offering the download. The program will still work fine though, just get it soon, actually, looks like you need to do it before the 15th of this month.... https://picasa.google.com/
Gimp is a free program, not the easiest to use, but there are guides everywhere with step by step. It is comparable to Photoshop in some features if you work with it. If it doesn't support "oil" directly, there are add ons to get, or mess with settings manually. I have not used it much for years.
https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
https://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-oilify.html
For a pay program that isn't ~too expensive, hard to beat Photoshop Elements. Many features of regular Photoshop which is much more expensive. At the end of the year it usually goes on sale for around $40, could look for an older version, or look elsewhere for a sale.
http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-65263875-Photoshop-Elements-14/dp/B014GP8XGM
Might be something simpler than this, just the first result I saw that looked promising.
http://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/editing/Turn-Your-Favourite-Digital-Photo-into-an-Oil-Painting