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Using a painting program and then completing the processing in iColorama for color, tone, and depth, I was able to transform an ordinary photo of two poppies into something painterly and artistic.
I started with this iPhone photo of mine.
I opened the image in Paintstorm and reduced the opacity so that I could use it as a guide to my painting on new layers. On a new layer, I used a pen to draw outlines, using different colors for the strokes.
On another new layer below the pen layer, I used a paintbrush to paint over the flowers.
On another new layer below the pen layer and above the orange layer, I used a paintbrush to paint a darker shade of orange/red for shadows in the flowers, and I blurred the layer.
On another new layer, I used a pencil to paint in the black centers.
On another new layer, I used a pencil to paint in yellow centers.
On another new layer, I used the Transition Grass brush to paint some grass.
On another new layer, I used a paint brush to paint a green background and purple shadows, then I blurred the layer using Filter/Blur.
On another new layer, I painted two buds on the right side.
On another new layer, I painted some white highlights in the grass.
I adjusted all the layer opacities and I saved to my camera roll.
I opened the image in iColorama and used Adjust/Tonelab, Adjust/Levels, and Tone/Duotone to adjust the tone and contrast. Then I used Effect/Raise preset 1 at low size to lend emphasis to the strokes.
I used Effect/Scrape to soften the image and lend a painterly effect to the strokes. I tried all the slider settings.
I used Style/Flow at low opacity to smooth the scraped lines a bit, and then I used Effect/Denoise preset 4 to get rid of the aliasing that occurs with Flow.
I used Adjust/Levels to increase contrast.
I used Form/Warp to increase the size of the flowers.
I blended the warped version with the prior version using Effect/Blend in Normal mode at half opacity, using the Rotate slider and resizing as needed to match the yellow centers of the two images. I used a low-opacity brush mask so I could blend the grasses but only partially blend the flowers. This has the effect of adding some complexity to the grasses.
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