PicToPainting with Paint Shop pro 2019

[RCPhotos]

I'll try this again.

Pic-to-Painting plugin is not working. I have uninstalled and re-downloaded the 64bit version then downloaded PtP and still the wheel spins without stopping.

What is the solution?

Certainly someone here has an answer





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[JoeB]

I'll try this again.

Pic-to-Painting plugin is not working. I have uninstalled and re-downloaded the 64bit version then downloaded PtP and still the wheel spins without stopping.

What is the solution?

Certainly someone here has an answer

There are 11 pages in this thread on my computer. Have you read all of the posts in this thread? The answer for most people has been found within those pages. If you have read all of the posts, then please tell us which of the solutions (there really is only one that seems to work for most people) that you have tried and that have failed. If you have not read all of the posts, then please do that first.

[RCPhotos]

JoeB, not sure if you are a photographer, a volunteer or work here, but why not just place the link to (there really is only one that seems to work for most people) in your response to me? You want everyone with the same problem to read 11 pages of posts? Why not just make it a Sticky? Or at least place the link to the 11 pages you are referring to. Is that really how this support forums is supposed to work?

[RCPhotos]

JoeB

So I went through all the posts I could find, not sure if it was 11 pages, but the only thing I could find that somene posted was that the OS needs to be w10, AND MINE IS, AND THAT THE PROCESSOR NEEDS TO BE AN I-SERIES PROCESSOR AND MINE IS NOT. coULD THAT BE THE PROBLEM? Oooops sorry about the Caps button

[Ken Berry]

This is not a forum which is run by Corel, and Corel people rarely visit it. It is run by volunteers like me who are users just like you, not Corel employees. I think what JoeB was saying was that you are hoping another user will trawl through 11 pages to give you an answer, or else that the person who made the suggestion which many here found useful will actually chip in. Incidentally, as far as I am aware, that was not JoeB. And I never got involved here since I never had a problem with Pic2Painting in the first place, and still don't.

Anyway, I have trawled through the first 3 pages and found this post by Levi Fiction: viewtopic.php?p=365096#p365096 on page 3. It appears to have worked for various users. I am not sure what happens on subsequent pages, but as I say this suggestion alone worked for various users, so you might want to try it first to see if it works for you.

But if it doesn't you might indeed want to look through the remaining pages to see if a further tweak is required.

[RCPhotos]

Thanks and I will read that, but yes actually I had assumed that the Support forum was run by and attended by Corel staff since it is a Corel website called Support and there are Sticky's here. Since the post you mentioned is from over a year ago, I had thought a Sticky Post would have been created. I do appreciate your help, but Corel is not well represented or respected IMHO if they do not help their own customers. What other business does that?

Anyhow I'll take a look at whatever tensorflow is, never heard of it. Actually I just typed into my Windows search bar tensorflow and its offering only a web search so it doesn't appear to be on my PC

[RCPhotos]

Wait......yes I was able to find it after all. I'm not a pc wizard, just a photographer. But I found it and I have been able to follow his advice up to a point, the very last point;
C:\Program Files (x86)\Pic to Painting\resources\app\app\nnart\lib
Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Pic to Painting\resources\app\app\nnart\lib

rename the tensorflow folder to something like tensorflow-old

copy the tensorflow folder from the zip file into the lib folder

....................so........where would I find the zip file? or do you know?

[RCPhotos]

As another guy here with the same problem, I have followed your advice down to the last step you have described just above
While working with Iraisok we found that replacing the tensorflow library with an older one worked for him. No guarantees but here is a download and instructions for trying that.

Tensorflow 1.5 Library - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1b4yV3 ... r0tK2PijkB

Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Pic to Painting\resources\app\app\nnart\lib

rename the tensorflow folder to something like tensorflow-old

copy the tensorflow folder from the zip file into the lib folder

This is me.........so where do I find the zip file?

[iraisok]

As another guy here with the same problem, I have followed your advice down to the last step you have described just above
While working with Iraisok we found that replacing the tensorflow library with an older one worked for him. No guarantees but here is a download and instructions for trying that.

Tensorflow 1.5 Library - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1b4yV3 ... r0tK2PijkB

Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Pic to Painting\resources\app\app\nnart\lib

rename the tensorflow folder to something like tensorflow-old

copy the tensorflow folder from the zip file into the lib folder

This is me.........so where do I find the zip file?

I can help you.. Firstly, give LeviFiction all the credit as he worked with me, quite awhile ago, (earlier in this thread) to solve the PiCToPainting issue on my Win 7. I was his test bed as he did not experience it.

So is what you asked for and more:

viewtopic.php?f=56&t=64218&start=120#p367932 has a fix to the slider as you will read here.
viewtopic.php?f=56&t=64218&start=30#p365096 has the link TensorFlow 1.5.zip (that I include below ... but read this post, too)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b4yV3r ... PijkB/view links you to TensorFlow.zip to use in place of the TensorFlow 1.7 if you find PiCToPainting goes around in circles.

Good Luck,

[RCPhotos]

Thank you Irasok

So with your first fix the slider link: the slider will move but only after I click send and close and then the send and close button is no longer a working button. It fades to an inactive state, so clicking a second time is not doable. The whole Plugin is in suspended animation while the wheel spins until one stops breathing, it's a forever thing.

As for the Tensorflow 1.5 zip link, as I said, I get the steps down to this step, "copy the tensorflow folder from the zip file into the lib folder" and don't know how to accomplish Step 4. Its not something I am familiar with. Oh maybe I am starting to get it, Once I download your third link, the actual TenserFlow zip file, that would be the file I would copy to into the lib folder? Yes?

And if that's true, I'm doing this from memory, copy into which part of the lib folder? I seem to recall many many files within that folder.Should I get a screengrab for you? I can do this tomorrow morning but not this afternoon.

[iraisok]

Thank you Irasok

So with your first fix the slider link: the slider will move but only after I click send and close and then the send and close button is no longer a working button. It fades to an inactive state, so clicking a second time is not doable. The whole Plugin is in suspended animation while the wheel spins until one stops breathing, it's a forever thing.

As for the Tensorflow 1.5 zip link, as I said, I get the steps down to this step, "copy the tensorflow folder from the zip file into the lib folder" and don't know how to accomplish Step 4. Its not something I am familiar with. Oh maybe I am starting to get it, Once I download your third link, the actual TenserFlow zip file, that would be the file I would copy to into the lib folder? Yes?

And if that's true, I'm doing this from memory, copy into which part of the lib folder? I seem to recall many many files within that folder.Should I get a screengrab for you? I can do this tomorrow morning but not this afternoon.

I should be able to help you, by similarity, if nothing else. But, I can't get to it until tomorrow AM (PDST). If LeviFiction pops in, I am sure he will pick up. Hang Loose, it will work - famous last words.

Ira

[LeviFiction]

A Zip file is a compressed folder, it holds other files inside of it. So when you open the file in Windows File Explorer you'll see a folder named "tensorflow" just copy that file, then go back to the folder - C:\Program Files (x86)\Pic to Painting\resources\app\app\nnart\lib and paste the new tensorflow folder into this location.

I demonstrate this process in the following video.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=12Odkh ... x1mk_dP73p

In this video you see the full process as laid out in the instructions

1) Go to C:\Program Files\Pic-To-Painting\resources\app\app\nnart\lib
This folder holds all of the libraries that Pic-To-Painting needs to run.

2) Rename the "tensorflow" folder to something else like "tensorflow-old"
We rename the folder so we can have a backup of the original tensorflow library.

3) Download the tensorflow library from this Google Drive link - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b4yV3r ... PijkB/view
This will download the Zip folder, when it's finished downloading open the file and you'll see a folder named "tensorflow" inside.

4) Copy the "tensorflow" library from the zip folder you downloaded, and paste it into the library folder - C:\Program Files\Pic-To-Painting\resources\app\app\nnart\lib

This effectively replaces the original tensorflow library with the older version that works on computers that the official version does not.

5) Try Pic-To-Painting again. Keep in mind it could still take a while to work depending on your computer. It's not a fast process to use ML for this purpose.

[RCPhotos]

3) Download the tensorflow library from this Google Drive link - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b4yV3r ... PijkB/view
This will download the Zip folder, when it's finished downloading open the file and you'll see a folder named "tensorflow" inside.

(((I will attach a screenshot))) of what I see by clicking on your google drive link. I cannot right click to copy, it merely highlights and de-highlights. If I open the tensorflow file by clicking on the folder, there is no tensorflow file inside, you'll see.

Ok hold on apparently I have to re-do both files as there is a limit on the size. I am sorry this is not easy for me.

I have to do this one step at a time. I'm not a dunce, I just am not techy sorry for the prolonged effort

[LeviFiction]

If you watch the video I show you how to download the zip file from Google Drive. You cannot copy the file from Google Drive directly, it just shows the contents. You have to download the whole file. At the top of the page there is a download Icon. Google will warn you it's too big to do a virus scan on and you click the download button to accept the risk. Then your browser will download the zip file and you can open it.

[RCPhotos]

I see what you're saying now. Ok so I will have to play/pause, play/pause over and over because your video is wayyyyyy too fast for me. Its the part where you find the 'tensorflow' file that is too fast for me. But I will try.

In the meantime, I have been told by someone that since my pc is 10 years old that the hardware lacks what it takes to make this happen. You can see in my list to the right what I have. What do you think?