Painterly flow guide

Start

The tool opens with two sample pictures, A and B, and the Broad oil preset. Picture A shows already painted, and B paints in is on. The panel sits beside the picture.

What you need

• A current browser with WebGL 2. Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari all have it.
• Two pictures of your own, if you want them. Any image the browser can open works; the samples are there until you swap them.

Your first result

1. Open Painterly flow. Picture A is shown as a painting. Move Brush size to see the daubs grow or shrink.
2. Pick another preset under Presets, such as Swirl comb. The painting changes at once.
3. Tap the picture again to paint A back in. To keep a still painting of picture A alone, turn off B paints in under Sliders.
4. Tap the picture, or press Replay at the top of the panel. The brush swells, the painting of A turns into the painting of B, and the brush settles. See paint in.
5. At the top of the panel, press the Image A and Image B tiles to pick your own two pictures, or drop two at once.
6. Press Save PNG for a still, or Record video to keep a run.

Good to know

• Every preset keeps B paints in on.
• A tap during a run does nothing; wait for it to finish. Replay always starts again at once.
• Moving any control takes the highlight off the preset.
• The frame takes the shape of picture A. Picture B is stretched to that shape, so two pictures of the same shape look best.
• On a phone the controls sit in a bar at the bottom of the screen. Tap the bar to open them.