Thanks to digital imagery software, we are able to take an original digital photo and make certain adjustments to convert that image into one which looks like an oil painting. Here is one example. Flowers are especially good for this sort of conversion. As an aside, I suppose we can stop referring to photos as being “digital” versus “film” since the latter has pretty much passed into photographic history…although in consideration of some photographer purists, film is still being used.
Making a Painting

….and what is the program that allows that..?? great work!