Cardinal

I had a picture of a cardinal I had found and was working with some digital enhancement filters and features within Gimp, a free software similar to Photoshop.  I was able to make some pretty cool adjustments to the photo, I hope you enjoy the variations.

This one has some B&W Screens and Overlays to it, and still fairly closely represents the original image, which was pretty flat with a dull washed out background.

This one adds some lines and layers to it.  This one is probably my favorite as it looks like a really well inked and watercolored photo.

This last one tried out some other features and background filters and brought out much more of the red from the bird, as well as more focus on the outline of the bird.

There are quite a few cool layers tricks and modifications you can do to images using Gimp, I highly recommend it as it is very powerful for a free software.