[[Media: OilPaint.zip]] This is our complete optimized solution, including the executable, code, and an image. The original parallelized solution took 3 arguments, the brush size, intensity level, the file name. Our default brush size was 5, and intensity level was 20, these values would be good for testing. Our optimized solution took only 1 argument, the file name. To run the parallel and optimized examples, the OpenCV files, specifically opencv_world320d.dll needs to be in the same directory as the executable. We tried multiple optimization method, some of them worked while others made our times worse. Below we have all our attempts at optimizations, what worked and what made it worse.