Picture to Painting Converter installs to the program’s folder, holding 35 files at ~167 MB, with an additional folder in C:\Users\ [UserName]\ AppData\ Roaming\. New registry keys are added for uninstall & the app itself. Both 32- and 64-bit versions of the app’s executable file [the file you run to run the app] are added to the program’s folder. Those .exe files appear to hold all the code – there aren’t a bunch of .dll files like you usually see – the exception being a single file from the 2015 Microsoft C/C++ runtimes, vcomp140.dll. The setup program would need to install the correct version of that file, 32- or 64-bit, & *maybe* that’s related to comments on the download page of the app not working, reporting that that file is missing.
The oil painting FX crashed the app in my win7 32-bit VM… Windows reported it wasn’t responding during the preview phase, but waiting it out, seemed to almost work, as the CPU use dropped to nothing, & the not responding message disappeared, but the preview bracket was messed up & there was no preview. Clicking the Run button however killed the app, which I had to exit using Task Mgr.
The remaining FX changed the appearance of the image dramatically, but to me the results didn’t look particularly like a painting. Photoshop doesn’t include any built-in painting FX, though you can combine FX to get something perhaps close, while PaintShop Pro 2019 & 2020 have a free plugin available to download & install – its FX are along the lines of Picture to Painting Converter, but you get more of them for greater variety. For what I think of as painting FX, [maybe old school] showing brush strokes, The GIMP is the champ, with all sorts of filters available.