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.

[Mylenium]

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

[RonD-Photo]

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.

[Oil Painter]

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

[Trevor.Dennis]

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.

[Pictus 171]

For Windows users there is an alternative, see ModelMayhem.com - Photoshop CC 2014 Oil Paint FREE alternative

[ruthied70245211]

They have it blocked! I tried to download but I got that it was blocked because of copyright issues

[Oil Painter]

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]

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

[Oil Painter]

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.

[Oil Painter]

If I open PS first and then hit the button at the very center bottom of the screen, it automatically opens Bridge and my plug-ins and oil paint works, which I think supports your solution, if I could execute it.    BTW:  Why does perspective warp work but not transform or free transform?  Thank you, Noel.

BTW;  I am going to Adobe Tuesday night and can bring these issues to the attention of developers.

[Noel Carboni]

Sorry that was a typo.  I meant Photoshop CC (2014)

Photoshop CC (2014) is the new release, and has eliminated the Oil Paint filter.

Photoshop CC 14.x is the prior release, and has the Oil Paint filter.

Yes, it's VERY confusing.  I'm sorry for having made it more so.

-noel

[Oil Painter]

I appreciate all well-intended help and I figured out what was going on.   When I downloaded CC 2014 it did not place an icon on my desktop.  Consequently sometimes I was opening CC 64 bit and sometimes CC 2014.   I went to a blog by an Adobe developer and found an explicit statement that CC 2014 does not include Oil Paint and all the talk about accelerators etc. is irrelevant.  HOWEVER, I note that installation of CC 2014 does not remove CC 64.  Simple solution: edit in 2014, close and save, finish in CC 64 bit.  Seems like all the other fancy stuff would be pointless.  In the meantime, Snap Art 4, a very sophisticated painting program, claims to work with CC 2014.  But when I downloaded the trial version, it only associates with CC 64. 

[dbater]

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]

Lightroom is launching Photoshop CC.

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

[Noel Carboni]

John may have it backwards, but the point is right - If you start Photoshop CC 14.x yourself, then whatever application sends data to Photoshop will use the one that's already running.  The latest release - Photoshop CC (2014) - is being started if none is running already.

Oil Painter, the terminology "CC 64" is ambiguous.  I suggest using these terms to help reduce ambiguity.

• Photoshop CC 14.x
• Photoshop CC (2014)

-Noel

[dbater]

Regardless, you should be able to stand on your head and launch whatever program you want, in any order and all should be fine.  In this case Adobe should be looking into it and fixing "the BUG"  🙂

[Noel Carboni]

Um, no.  You're allowed to start whatever version of Photoshop you want, and it's well-known behavior that operations will use the one that's running.

Regarding Oil Paint being missing, they took it out on purpose in Photoshop CC (2014).  If you want to call that a Bug I'm not going to argue the point.  I too think it was a bad idea to take it out.

-Noel

[dbater]

I stand corrected Noel, I forgot to change the app on my app tray. 

[Noel Carboni]

Right  You must be running the older version of Photoshop if you see Oil Paint.  For anyone else confused about what version they're running...  Do Help - System Info and see what version you're running.  It should say 2014.0.0, like this:

Also, check here for info on removed features:

2014 release of Photoshop CC: FAQ

-Noel

[dbater]

I have both versions on my computer (mac) in Lightroom it was correct and started CC 2014 when I asked but in the app tray on the desktop I had the icon for the previous version.  I never updated it.  All is well now, I will keep both version so I have the oil painting feature for some of the work I do.

[jeffschihl]

I hate Adobe products since switching to the Cloud. I've had so many problems, plus with each update, all my interface preferences get reset. Now the oil filter is gone in PS. It's too bad that Adobe has run all the other graphic design programs out of business. However, with a continued shoddy line of products I'm sure some other company will come along to challenge Adobe...hopefully sooner than later!

[LoriJillD]

I updated my laptop to a Solid state drive, with a super fast processor specifically to handle painting in Photoshop. I used the Adobe Cloud to install CC 2014 on my new machine, and ha - no more oil paint filter!!! Really Adobe? And I can't install an earlier version now because I am on a new machine. Frustrating that they keep adding things we get use to and put into our work flow and then remove them again. Does anyone know if we can go back and install the Pixel Bender Plugin that we use to use before they included the Oil Painting in PS? I have the Alien Skin and a few others but would really like this oil paint filter back also for under painting work.

[LoriJillD]

Jeff, I have been using Photoshop since 5.0 - isn't funny now that we pay this ridiculous $50/ month for a "Cloud" service and yet nothing we really wish would be saved in the Cloud is being saved? You are right it's like having to start all over again each time we update. Why Adobe? If we are paying a monthly update plan then it should be good customer service and simple to hit update, all of your setting are saved in the cloud and re-installed with that update. Please find a developer who can help make this happen and get rid of all the frustration your customer's are feeling.

[Noel Carboni]

LoriJillD wrote:

I can't install an earlier version now because I am on a new machine.

What makes you think that?

-Noel