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RonD-Photo
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January 15, 2014
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Missing Oil Painting Filter

  • January 15, 2014
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I can't find the oil painting filter. PS CC.  Indications on tutorials and elsewhere are that it should be a choice under "Filters".

It is not there, but I know I used it several months ago!  Anybody know what would change?

My only choices in drop down are: Convert for Smart Filter, Camera Raw Filter, Blur, Noise, Pixelate, Render, Sharpen, Stylize, Other, Browse for Filters Online.

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Correct answer

Good news e'ryone. It's back as of December 2015. Use the Oil Paint filter in Photoshop

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Anonymous
October 16, 2017

My PS is 2015 and the Oil Paint is missing even when I tried to download the plug-in, Please I really need my Oil Paint back, any viable solution is gonna be a life saver

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Anonymous
Correct answer
January 7, 2016

Good news e'ryone. It's back as of December 2015. Use the Oil Paint filter in Photoshop

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ggrossman_photo
Participating Frequently
August 22, 2015

Sooooo, WHERE do we complain to get Oil Painting back, now in PS CC 2015!!!

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    madderhatter
    Participating Frequently
    August 22, 2015

    There's a large discussion on the community site.  From speaking to one of the senior programming engineers, that also banned me from the chat for asking for specifics of the history and programming of the filter, and also accusing adobe of possibly being nefarious in the implementation of the filter,  it appears that this is a technology issue and an implementation issue that will be pretty difficult to overcome and going to need a serious effort to get it included past the 2014 release.  I'm still working on mine using pixel bender accelerator.  Made a lot of headway, but the math and the size of the kernel is still a  huge issue for me.

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    ggrossman_photo
    Participating Frequently
    August 23, 2015

    Thanks for the "sad" news...

    I still have PS CS6 on my system also, so I do have access. I am worried that bouncing between PS CS6 and PS CC will corrupt something and then I will really have a problem.

    I am not a techie, but just a user. Can a "mere mortal" speak to someone at Adobe about this problem?

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    madderhatter
    Participating Frequently
    July 1, 2015

    Pixel bender accelerator is available as a plugin now for all versions of photoshop and uses gpu acceleration.  The only problem is that the pbk and code that it uses is not open source.  Trying to come up with a solution that is similar but it's painstaking.  Anyone that knows anything about tensors and anisotropic filters I could use help on how to program this thing, cause I haven't done any serious stuff in years, and this math and converting the math to actual pixel bender is giving me a major headache for weeks now.

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    dbater
    Participant
    June 24, 2014

    This has happened to me and I had to restart Photoshop to get the oil painting menu item back.  It happens when I go from Lightroom to Photoshop if photoshop is not open at the time.  If I start photoshop and then go from Lightroom to Photoshop the filter is there.  So something is up between the two of them.

    John Waller
    Community Expert
    John WallerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 24, 2014

    Lightroom is launching Photoshop CC.

    When you're launching Photoshop yourself, you're launching CC 2014.

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    Oil Painter
    Participating Frequently
    June 21, 2014

    I may have discovered a very strange bug in Photoshop cc 2014.  If I open PS CC 2014 FIRST and Bridge SECOND, I get more features in Photoshop than if I open Bridge first including some of my old plugins and OIl Paint.  Go figure.  Is this a fluke? Please give it a shot. 

    Noel Carboni
    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    June 21, 2014

    Check your Bridge file associations (in the Bridge Preferences).  Make sure Bridge has the files you want to open associated with the new Photoshop CC (2012) executable, which is completely separate from the Photoshop CC 14.x executable.

    -Noel

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    Oil Painter
    Participating Frequently
    June 21, 2014

    I suspect that you are on to the problem but sorry I have very little technical experience.  Can you please provide more detail.     I open Bridge, got to the File pull down menu, then go to preferences, and then .......?  The "new Photoshop CC (2012)" isn't that the old Photoshop?   Thank you very much for your help.

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    Oil Painter
    Participating Frequently
    June 21, 2014

    I WANT MY FILTER BACK!!   This was key to my workflow and what I sell.

      Trevor.Dennis
      Community Expert
      Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 21, 2014

      But you still have the original CC with that filter installed.  Same thing with all those Extensions that are not compatible with 2014, and some of those were a lot more useful than the Oil Paint filter.

      It would be an aid to workflow if it was possible to have two instances of Photoshop running at the same time, but I have a feeling that is not possible.

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      RonD-PhotoAuthor
      Participant
      January 15, 2014

      I checked the preferences in PS and it is set to use the GPU (and it confirms what you say about oil painting filter with GPU) but even turning it off, exiting PS, then restarting PS and turning it on (and repeating restart) did not bring filters back.

      Running Windows 8 on Lenovo laptop, with Intel HD Graphics 4000.  The filter DID work.  I have a photo I applied the oil painting filter to and want to do it to another.

      Mylenium
      Mylenium
      Legend
      January 15, 2014

      Withouzt system info nobody can know. The oil paint filter uses GPU acceleration and if it's not available, the filter won't be, either.

      Mylenium

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