Some messing around with two different pink lotus photos in a variety of photo apps.
Original photo of a spectacular lotus flower on the Mekong River in Vietnam. The image is quite sharp.
This photo was zoomed in so much that it’s not nearly as sharp and considerably noisier.
Pixlromatic’s transformations are often over the top but always fun.
Second pink lotus in Pixlromatic.
First lotus painted with Sketch Guru’s Watercolor option. I found the second lotus too out-of-focus to work well in this program.
Stackables transformation. For some reason every time I see a Stackables version of something I think ‘book cover’.
Again the second lotus didn’t work as well so I apped it in both Waterlogue (a watercolour app) and Stackables to compensate for it’s lack of focus.
Mekong lotuses in Psykopaint, an app that mimics painting by stroking the image with various mark-making ‘tools’ such as brushes.
I’m not sure why the first lotus is so visibly brush-stroked, and the second so smooth that it almost appears as a photo instead of a painting. I much prefer the brushier look.
More of Nancy Merrill’s Photo a Week Challenge: It All Depends On What You Want.
Batz Gallery 
I love the Psykopaint effect…I will have to find that app!
It’s a bit unpredictable but fun – unfortunately it only saves quite small and it appears that they haven’t updated it for awhile…
So fun! I love all of them! Thank you for including so much information about what you did with each treatment. Thanks for joining the challenge!
I learned so much from Robyn G’s now defunct One (Photo) Four (Ways) Challenge – there was a real exchange of ideas, tips and apps – if you haven’t heard of it I have picked one of her One Four posts at random: https://robynsfineart.wordpress.com/2016/11/21/one-four-challenge-2016-november-week-3/
I remember hearing about it, but just as it was ending so I missed participating. Thanks!