[monkeyfinger]

Originally Posted by Sela

Well, no collage from me this time, for once.
I have a demo version of Alien Skin Snap Art and wanted to try it out on this photo. So here's what I did:

-upped the contrast on the original
-applied Oil Painting filter in fairly large strokes for the hair and background
-applied Oil Painting filter in small detailed strokes for the face (I did this each in a separate layer and masked out the appropriate parts)
-masked out the eye to show some of the original eye so it would be fairly sharp
-flattened
-lowered the saturation a tiny bit

And that's all she wrote.

Thats bloody beautiful.