iCPainter 4+

I only found this app recently and have been using it constantly since then, but after the recent update I’ve been wishing I could use the old version again. The controls and layout are definitely an improvement in this version but I feel that the new rendering is way too “tidy” now. Previously, my favorite aspect was that the image started very abstract and messy and then would tighten focus and detail as the rendering continued. I feel that the rendering is now far less expressive, and there’s no way to restore that element of the process. (Maybe most people only want the end result from the rendering, but I really enjoyed the images that were created ‘during’ the rendering process, and now I feel that those qualities have been lost). Given this, I can only hope that a future version will include a way to increase the abstract/ messy/ painterly aspects during the rendering, or that the rendering will go back to how it was in terms of starting out loose and abstract and then becoming increasingly precise. For example.. previously if you were rendering a face, the brush strokes would extend beyond the edge of the face or eyes, lips, etc. but now the brush strokes are all contained and don’t really extend beyond the edges of the face or eyes, lips, etc. and the edge of the face is now more of a hard line and is never blurred by brush strokes, so the rendering comes out more rigid because of that.

Not able to open a photo to use the app. When Incluckmon photo it kicks me out of the app

It opens. Poc selector opens. But totally unable to select photo because it crashes as soon as the library appears. Bummer.