Turning Photos into Artworks

Last week when I joined the Collaborative Art Journey (you can see my collaboration here), I realized that editing photos to turn them into pieces of artworks it's an activity that I find very pleasant and even fun to do. I've been editing photos for years as a hobby, not to ruin them but to turn them into artworks and I must say that I really love doing it. Thus, today I want to show you my first work of a series in photo editing that I hope you like it.

All the photos will be taken from Pixabay. This first work is called "Iguana" because, well...

... it's a photo of an iguana :)

Now, I'll show you 5 artworks resulting from editing the photo above. While most people use Adobe Photoshop to do this type of editing, I use Photoscape because it's extremely user-friendly and has very nice features and tools. For now, it does a good job for my purposes.

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1.)

Water Painting (Level 10)
Backlight 200%
Cartoon Filter (Pen thickness: 1, Threshold: -10)
Colorize (Color: 165, Saturation: 255, Level: 26%)
Color Enhance

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2.)

Grayscale
Watercolor Pencil (Level 100)
Backlight 200%
Agfa (High)
Backlight 200% (again)
Color Enhance

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3.)

Playing with saturation curve
Agfa + Cross Process (both high)
Pastel Filter (Pen Thickness: 2, Stroke: 10, Direction: Vertical)
Water Painting (Level 5)

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4.)

Colorized (Color: 165, Saturation: 255, Level: 100%)
Cellophane (Level 16)
3x Backlight 200%
Color Engraving

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5.)

Edge (Level 2)
Colored Pencil (Level 8)
Negative
Backlight 200%
Bandicoot
Cellophane (Level 6)