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I was playing with a PS plugin I found called Impressionist and discovered that I can paint like an Old Master or at least do something interesting with a so-so pic.

The original photo:


The Van Gogh

Love how you've coloured that pigeon! Now...forget cheap plug-ins, try this in PS. Open your image and choose the art history brush. Make your brush size about the size of a small button and start smudging up your image. Now make your brush size very small and go back over the interesting parts of your image. Magic!

Yep. Real cheap. It's freeware

I thought it was a duck!
I actually like the "painting" quite a bit!

Matt. K wrote:Love how you've coloured that pigeon! Now...forget cheap plug-ins, try this in PS. Open your image and choose the art history brush. Make your brush size about the size of a small button and start smudging up your image. Now make your brush size very small and go back over the interesting parts of your image. Magic!

As requested

John, the first version made it look like you converted all the innocent strands of grass and weeds into the kinda weed you smoke...

Love the birdie shot and I will take a kilo of the grass - thank you

John
Not bad for a first attempt. You need a really small brush for the eyes, beak etc. Print it on canvas, frame it, sign it John Picasso and you'll get about a squillion bucks for it.