Anyone into photo to painting effects besides me? I don't have Photoshop but I can get some pretty good effects with GIMP along with 3rd party plugins. Fotosketcher is a great free stand alone program I recently discovered also.
Here's one I did with GIMP and the G'MIC plugin using the Artistic/Brushify filter. I actually had this one printed on canvas and framed to hang on my wall:
Original. This photo was taken in 1957 by my father while stationed in Japan during his service in the US Air Force:
I found this awesome HDR photo on the net and ran it through Fotosketcher then tweaked it in GIMP. The effect is subtle but looks cool:
Original HDR photo:
Fotosketch and GIMP. I had this one printed on canvas and framed also:
Original. Ugly outbuilding cloned out and additional scenery added through cloning before running through Fotosketch and GIMP:
This VA State Fairground pic I did earlier this afternoon is pretty colorful. Fotosketcher "Painting 6" and "Painting 7 (brushstrokes)" merged together:
Original
Captured this HDR image from the internet. Fotosketcher "Painting 6"
Original
FotoSketcher "Painting 6" then GIMP Colors/Auto White Balance then Colors/Color Enhance
Took this photo of a swampy area off the side of 64 West many years ago then clone tooled it into a panoramic image
Here's one I did with GIMP and the G'MIC plugin using the Artistic/Brushify filter. I actually had this one printed on canvas and framed to hang on my wall:
Original. This photo was taken in 1957 by my father while stationed in Japan during his service in the US Air Force:
I found this awesome HDR photo on the net and ran it through Fotosketcher then tweaked it in GIMP. The effect is subtle but looks cool:
Original HDR photo:
Fotosketch and GIMP. I had this one printed on canvas and framed also:
Original. Ugly outbuilding cloned out and additional scenery added through cloning before running through Fotosketch and GIMP:
This VA State Fairground pic I did earlier this afternoon is pretty colorful. Fotosketcher "Painting 6" and "Painting 7 (brushstrokes)" merged together:
Original
Captured this HDR image from the internet. Fotosketcher "Painting 6"
Original
FotoSketcher "Painting 6" then GIMP Colors/Auto White Balance then Colors/Color Enhance
Took this photo of a swampy area off the side of 64 West many years ago then clone tooled it into a panoramic image
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