Missing Oil Painting Filter

[RonD-Photo]

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.

[daveontrak]

Man, I could kiss you square on the lips for that. I've been struggling on a new computer to do my homework which requires CC and I couldn't find it anywhere on the Adobe site. Many thanks

[katm1902298]

I just went to do this and it told me that it will uninstall cc2014.. so I cannot have both??  I am trying to get the oil paint filter and when I try to browse filter online in cc 2014 I her "can't connect to cloud"  WHA!!???  I am connected.. any suggestions?  can I even get a oil paint filter for 2014?

[madderhatter]

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.

[ggrossman_photo]

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

[madderhatter]

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.

[ggrossman_photo]

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?

[Guest · Accepted solution]

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

[Guest]

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