I have the same problem, sometimes black boxes stay on the image, sometimes saturn like rings. As this is a tool I use several times on every image it is very annoying. ... View more

Hi Noel, you described exactly what and how i used the oil paint filter and I always had to adjust the curves to taste. Is there any workaround to achieve that anisotropic blurring in another way? Frankly I did not know how to call what I did.... ... View more

Thank you Pierre. Too bad that they did a major downgrading on Photoshop CC 2014... I used it to calm down the appearance of the pictures. At the end of editing, i make 2 copies. One will be way oversharped, either with highpass or sharpening tool, the other will be oil painted. The oilpaint with all settings to 0 except the first 2 options to 9 or 10. then reduce the opacity of the oil effect until it meets the taste. Usually down to 50%. Details come back due to the oversharpening and it gets a wonderful calm tone. I use it for portraits and landscape. ... View more