Digitally Painted Portraits

I have shared my love for Mountain Mama in the past, so it should not come as a shock that I read her blog daily.  I entered a recent giveaway of hers thinking the prize would be something neat for my brother-in-law and I won!  Talk about God’s favor, I found out I won another giveaway this week, too (more on that later).

I won an 11x14 “painted” portrait.  Pam at Alf Photography edits your high resolution image and makes it look like a painting.  So your snapshot becomes a true work of art. 

I know some of you out there have mad Photoshop skills and could do things like this, but my brain is still processing the ISO, shutter speed, aperture triangle with every snap.  SO for people like me (and most of you reading this), this is a cool idea for yourself or a gift.

I emailed the photo of my three nieces I took last week to Pam.  She is already hard at work on it.  Can you believe it?  She asked if she could use the photo in a post about how she “paints” her images.  Of course I said yes because I wanted to see how she did it.

So head over to Alf Photography and read about how she is manipulating the pixels to make a photo look like a painting.  I think you will really enjoy reading about the details or maybe just seeing her very neat art.  Here is a piece she did of a Schnauzer.  How cute!

I know my brother-in-law is going to love the picture of his daughters.  Now if he can get it past my mother-in-law.  I may have an idea on a present for her.  *light bulb just flashed on*