I normally process my photos for standard edits required when you shoot in RAW format (contrast, brightness, sharpening, levels etc), and have edited a few with added texture backgrounds in the past, but limited time to get my art studio has me craving to create more artwork and this looks like a good way to satisfy those creative urges. While I do see photography as art, these edited photos take photography to a whole new level somewhere between painting and photography, and like digital painting, the possibilities are endless.
This is two versions of the same photograph that obviously gives a quite different look to the final image.
