PhotoRetrica

Photo to Art

Turn a photo into an oil painting, pencil sketch, watercolor, pop art print, halftone, mosaic or poster.

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How to use: Photo to Art

  1. 1

    Upload a photo

    Drop an image or click to browse. All effects run on your device.

  2. 2

    Choose an art style

    Turn the photo into an oil painting, pencil sketch, watercolor, pop art, halftone print, mosaic or poster, and fine-tune the style.

  3. 3

    Download

    The full-size version is rendered when you download. Save it or keep editing in the editor.

Seven art styles

These effects imitate traditional techniques with image-processing filters that run on your device, so nothing is sent to a server. Oil paint smooths the picture into strokes of the brush size you choose. Pencil sketch traces the photo in graphite lines with adjustable stroke width and darkness, or in color pencils. Watercolor softens shapes and adds paper texture.

Pop art turns the photo into bold flat colors in the spirit of Warhol prints, as a single image or a 2 × 2 grid, with a tone balance slider. Halftone recreates printed dots in black or CMYK colors, pixelate builds a mosaic of blocks with optional gaps, and posterize reduces the picture to a few color levels for a screen-print poster.

An intensity slider mixes the effect with the original. The full-size version is rendered when you download it as JPG, PNG or WebP.

Everything runs locally in your browser — your images are never uploaded to a server.