Here on youtube you can follow how this fantastic software "paints" my photo:
this is a fragment of what you see onscreen
To make this van gogh art from the original photo which is below, it is simple: open the photo in DAP painter and let it run one of the presets, in this case "vangogh1".
Then sit back and relax and watch your computer screen: DAP actually "paints" the art live!
This alone is worth the program
I made a screen video of this proces to be seen here:
https://www.screencast.com/t/6sNtfUvMl7cc