One-to-three is a monthly photo processing challenge on my other web site, theSquirrelChase.com. I’d love to have you join in: The challenge is simple: take one photo and get creative with it by processing it three different ways. Then share the results, with a link to this month’s post. I’ll do a start up post on the first of each month and at the end of the month I’ll do a round up, so we can all share in the creativity and fun.

Here’s my February 2020 contribution:

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How to get the looks above:

The G’mic plug-in for the GIMP has many different filters (over 500). The first variation uses the “brushify” filter in the Artistic group within G’mic.

The second variation uses the “illustration” filter in the Artistic group within G’mic.

The third variation applies the Orton effect, as described in this post: Creating the Orton effect in the GIMP. The cartoon effect is found in Filters>Artistic>Cartoon. In the GIMP I layered the cartoon effect image over the Orton effect image and used the soft light blend mode.

Background

Since having to isolate due to the pandemic, last spring, I’ve been doing a lot of experimentation with photo processing and I thought it might be fun to share some of the things I’ve discovered and see what others are doing.

I’m hosting the challenge on the other site to try and keep my WordPress.org skills.