Photo art.

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Anyone else dabble with this kind of thing ? Original photo below.

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Sometimes I do, not only a painted look but also a watercolor look and whatever else I can think of. I often use backgrounds on images. I'm not a big fan of the Topaz painted look but that has worked out on occasion. I always feel a little bit bad when I do this as Ansel Adams and the f.64 group worked so hard in the 1930s to move photographs away from the fuzziness of paintings and onward to the sharpness available only in photography (thus the name of the group), but I do it happily anyway. I love to play with my images and I have hundreds of images that I've altered.
 
I’ve recently done a few using a program called Snap Art 4. I’ve enjoyed seeing what some photos look like when converted to a painting. It almost feels like “cheating” because I have no artistic talent outside of photography.
 
I'm sure like most everyone else I have shared my photos with artists that use various media and techniques to create art. It is always a bit exciting for me to see the end result. I love to see nature represented in art. No problems here with a soft image if it represents the subject nicely. Sorry Ansel lol

<<< Not a pro
 
Another hobby of mine is textile arts. It is not uncommon to use a photograph as the basis for a textile art. I have yet to transfer one of my photos into a textile wall hanging but it is in my want to do list (sigh, if I could only afford to retire).
 
I trialled Snap Art 4 but it wasn't what I was looking for.

I use Fotosketcher which is free and Impresso Pro which is $49.99. Both have a lot of options to provide different looks.
 
It's also possible to create some excellent effects using a clipping mask and brushes in PS.

There's also a way of doing things ithout the clipping mask which is pretty simple. Basically, you put in a background that would be suitable by not clashing with the existing background in the photo. Then you selectively paint that background away to reveal the original photo. A plain colour works well. In this image I used a white background.

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I have taken images and pushed thme to an "artsy" or abstract version as with the ijellyfish refflected agains the underside of the water surface.
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