Those are great pics, Ida.

I can't remember the name of it, but our Kindergarten teacher used an aging app to show the kids what they'd look like at 100 - it was kind of scary!

Oh wow! That WOULD be scary, daisy! It's amazing what one can do with photos these days.

I am having too much fun with the Sketch Camera app!

I’ve never seen that before, but what a fun way to make wall art. Makes you wonder if that’s all a lot of the pictures on the art selling websites are. What a fun way to make a buck.

The only one I’ve used is Waterlogue which I learned about here.

Oh, I forgot about Waterlogue! Thanks for mentioning it.

I wonder if these tweaked pics would transfer well to canvas. I did a test run on the CVS photo site of the yucca pic and it indicated the resolution was too low and the pic would be blurry or pixelated. Is that by nature of the tweaking itself?

It could be the camera is shooting the pic with a lower resolution or the program might be diminishing the resolution to create the effect. I bet a quick google search could explain it.

It could also be that the canvas size you’re choosing is too large for the resolution of the picture.

I used Waterlogue on a closeup of Bessie that hangs in my bathroom.

Always take photos at the highest resolution your device allows.

Waterlogue. This is from Oahu.

I had a Waterlouge photo transferred to canvas at Costco. Turned out pretty good.

I've been wondering what that might look like, Catticus. Costco has a special right now on their canvas prices, so I may give it a try. Now I just have to find a special photo to reproduce!

My colleague just posted this the other day: Remove.bg will remove the background from any photo. I have not tried it yet.

We need to keep these app ideas in mind when people say "I can't find art I like for my walls!". :) Absolutely great pics, people! IdaClaire, I remember your NYC pics - you have a great eye. And that cat of yours is beyond photogenic! :D

I recently had some dog pictures printed poster sized at Walgreens. They said the resolution was too low, did I want to proceed and I figured for $4 (on sale) it was worth a try. They turned out very well. I would consider poster size and framing vs canvas for low res photo since the canvas itself causes a less crisp image. I would totally hang your photos as art!

Is anyone else having trouble with Waterlogue? I’ve been trying to use it for days and it isn’t working for me. I choose the picture I want “painted” and nothing happens.

My colleague just posted this the other day: Remove.bg will remove the background from any photo. I have not tried it yet.

It is limited to 500 pixels square for the result, so not very useful for anything you might want to print or use in a high resolution image. If you layer the result with any photo straight from your phone, for instance, the remove image will be tiny.

I'm a waterlogue agnostic, I fear. When it works it's great, but it's terribly difficult to use on a photo not taken right that minute with your phone and I find it works well on about one out of twenty pics I've tried it on. But trying to use it on a photo not from the device camera is incredibly tiresome. And I don't find that any of the other presets besides the first one ever look good--too much detail loss. Also, in iOS it applies the filters to the interface itself so you can't read what the buttons do--very hard to figure out how to save your result when the save/apply button is just a blur. When it works, it's very nice, though.

Note that you need to dial in the resolution you want in the bar to the right of the presets. Scroll over to see the settings.

Hhireno, it’s working just fine for me today.

Ida, what app did you use in the first pics above?

Sue, all of those pics I posted were done with the Sketch Camera app. I might try printing one of them to a small canvas if I can find someone with a "deal" going on. I spent much of the weekend creating a Shutterfly photo book and am "tweaked out" at the moment -- that's more work than I realized! I still want to play around with various apps and see what all I can do though. It's fun (and addictive).