John McWilliams
On 10/9/14 PDT, 11:55 AM, Savageduck wrote:

Savageduck
On 2014-10-09 17:49:40 +0000, PeterN <peter@verizon.net>said:

PeterN
On 10/9/2014 12:26 PM, Savageduck wrote:

The fact is that very little can be done in any plug-in that can't be done in PS. Almost anything can be done in both RGB & LAB. LAB is a lot easie, and faster for some processes. that gives more flexability, which is a good thing. Getting into a tool war, is meaningless, unless there is a reasonable accurate description of what eah plug-in does.

Savageduck
Do the research, & experimenting, you have the plug-ins.

PeterN
Habing said that, I am annoyed that the oil paint filter was removed from CC 2014.

Savageduck
to the best of my recollection the "Oil Paint" filter and one other were add-ons back with CS5. I see that it isn't there in CC (2014). So I checked with the "Filter Gallery" and I see that will only be available in 8-Bit mode, and "Oil Paint" is absent from that.

So, for now if you want to use the "Oil Paint" filter you will have to uses PS CC or CS6.

That said I am sure that with some digging about it can be located and installed. Perhaps Adobe support might be able to help.

John McWilliams
If you really want to paint, get StudioArtist v. 4. Amazing program. Free trial.

And, IIRC, there used to be actions you could download (or make yourself) that'd do painterly things.