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Beautiful Parrott. I am enjoying your paintings of your images, however, I think I prefer the original of this particular image. Nice sharp detail. I would not change a thing.

What fun things we can do The colorful bird is so colorful it looks like a painting before the application. A very appropriate subject for the technique.
 

This is a beautiful image of a parrot.  However I see little difference between the two images other than size and a bit more background texture in the larger one.  Neither looks like an oil painting to me.  I do not understand what you were attempting nor what your thought process was--based on your brief comment.  So I do not think I can comment intelligently.  Sorry.

I think the original of this parrot is very good. I do not think the painterly version is "painterly" enough. It simply looks out of focus. I went to Filter>Artistic>Dry Brush and got this. It may be a little too much, but that can easily be corrected by playing with the sliders some more.

You’ve achieved a very nice effect here. The bird is colorful enough and well-placed in the frame. The painterly effect is works well with this subject.

This is a colorful bird in a well composed image. Your "oil painting" effect works well, but I think it would have been more striking and original if had NOT been applied to the head, and particular not applied the eye, which are appropriately in sharp focus.  It would give depth to the image.

I have been involved with photography since 1948. I began with an Army Signal Corps field photographer kit and an adjustable 35 mm camera.
 

I graduated from Purdue in 1958 with a BS in aeronautical engineering. In 1962 I moved to Detroit, Michigan to work for GM. I joined the Photographic Guild of Detroit and got deeply involved with art photography. Most of my photographic education was the result of my association with the Guild. I was a member until 1996, when I retired from GM and moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where I now live.

My interests in photography are varied, and included B&W and color printing, salons, nature, color slide, and experimental photography.

I have been a scuba diver since 1952, and began underwater photography in the mid 1960s while diving in the Cayman Islands. My equipment was a Calypso UW camera and flash bulb unit. (The Calypso is the original Nikonos V outfit.) I began a lifelong affair with UW photography. I still dive and have a Nikonos V outfit. I am in the process of converting several thousand UW slides into digital images with my Nikon ED V scanner. My other equipment includes a Mamiya RB67 outfit, 4X5 cameras and lenses, several Cannon 35 mm cameras and lenses, and a complete darkroom.

I am still shooting film and converting it to digital with a scanner. I still find it hard to work on a photograph in the computer without having all the lights out and tanks and trays all over the place, but I will adjust.