Colored Pencil & Cutout effect - 3rd post

This time I would like to do some basic and simple things with the image I found royalty free on the Internet: http://www.bigfoto.com/sites/galery/nature1/natur001.jpg

When I have a look at this photo, I feel pretty safe and sound, somewhat relaxed. However, the sunset landscape also gives me a little blue feelings. Maybe the reason is that everything in that image is so quiet, so static. Moreover, the dark colors also makes the photo look more silent.

This image can be considered an example of monochromatic with the values of color varying from white to black. Or it can be thought of analogous as well if the clouds are blue darks and the light are extremely light red. It depends on our perception.

I do not want to do complicated effects on this image. I like simple matters. Hence, I just applied the colored pencil effect on it at first.


Now, we have the manipulated photo. It looks kind of impressive and nice. I thinks it can be considered as a painting. The clouds and black shades of the objects in the original one now turn into grey. The sunset lights still look clear and now more contrast on the gray background.

Then, I used the cutout effect on the original photo. And here is the result. In this image, the objects look more real but not too real to be a photo taken by a camera. The clouds change to black. It modifies the whole sight below (the house and the trees). The lake now is a little dark. We can still recognize the sunset light spreading through the whole image.

In conclusion, I think we can use these two effects on the image that do not contain many color to produce a photo looking like a water - color painting.