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Reader Submissions: Photo Art Examples

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Photo art is when you take an ordinary photo and transform it into something that looks like it had been created using traditional art techniques like paint, colored pencil, graphite, chalk, charcoal, crayon, marker, watercolor, and so on. The photo art in this gallery was created by visitors of varying skill levels using their own photos and a variety of art-oriented software. Browse the photo art gallery to learn from our members and see what kind of results can be achieved with a little graphics software know-how, or submit your own photo art to the collection..

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Balloons a Go Go with Corel Paintshop

This image was created from an original photo of children towing a stream of balloons to a party. I wanted to retain the colourfulness of the balloons, but wanted to lose the background emphasis and …More

Butterfly Wings

Simple cut-and-paste that would be available on any photo editing software. I used Paint Shop Pro 8 (which is my favorite software). The background was also created by me.I used a bunch of digital pi…More

Trees in the Woods - PhotoArtMaster

PhotoShop for tidying up, but PhotoArtMaster for the main work.The techniques used in PAM are not easy to put into words. It is mainly selecting "distorted" versions of one's original, modifying it a…More

Painterly Puppy with Lightroom

This was done entirely in Lightroom 3. I started by changing the photo orientation to portrait by cropping. This served to remove a lot of the background distraction. Next, I applied heavy noise redu…More

Temple of Diana

Photoshop CS5Corel Painter 11Start by optimizing images in a photo-editing application such as Photoshop.Apply as many filter effects as you want.Open image in Corel Painter or similar application.Ju…More

Tom Bishop at Foxfield Steeplechase Races

Software: I use Photoshop CS5 to develop the photo and get the color, tone and saturation I like and Painter 11 to render the painterly image.There's no other software that has the extensive inventor…More

Occurrence in a Temple by Starik39

Photoshop 7.1 is my beloved software, mostly LAYERS. With Photoshop I use them very often with Blending mode. PhotoScape is very useful and interesting program. Also I love using Sketch Up. It is a v…More

Bee by Arphot

Photoshop. Using layer masks to blend the texture to the photo is key. Start with a soft brush at a low opacity and increase either or both until you feel you've got what you're striving for. In my c…More

Indigo Bunting by DigDiva100

I painted the background with black and used the Topaz Simplify filter on the image first and then the free Pixel Bender filter from Adobe for Photoshop CS5. I used a layer mask to bring back some sh…More

Little Boat - Watercolor Effect Saves a Blurry Photo

When I downloaded my pictures from the camera I noticed this picture was a little blurry. I almost deleted it, but then decided maybe I could work with it. I ignored it for months looking at those ot…More

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