Thermopolis Hot Springs - Playing With Filters

The job of a photographer isn't to create an image, but to discover it and then capture it in a pleasing way. The job of an artist is to create. So, what happens when you combine the two? You end up with filters on photo software.

I recently featured a set of pictures from Thermopolis Hot Springs, here in Wyoming. I took one of the pictures from this set and ran it through a bunch of filters both on Photoscape and on Gimp and found a couple of interesting pictures to share with you.

On the whole, I like the Photoscape effects better, though Gimp has more versatility, so (as usual), you gain some, you lose some.

The first one I'll share with you today is Gimp's tile feature. It claims to make your image into seamless tiles - very important for many purposes - such as coloring an image. I liked the effect here... It really grabbed the best of the image and repeated it.

Then, I really started playing.
I've sort of lost track of what all I did - mostly in Photoscape, but also putting together layers in Gimp.
They really became new worlds here...

This time, I took out the background and replaced it with a freebie.from Pixabay.
Do you like it?

Photos taken by myself in May 2019 with my Pentax K30. Edited on Photoscape and Gimp.

Crossposted at Steem, Whaleshares, WeKu, Hyperspace, Publish0x and Stish.