How to turn any photo into beautiful watercolor art for FREE!
This site makes it so easy to make any photo look like a soft watercolor painting with a single click. There are a ton of other free filters as well!
I love to share cool ways to create custom art at home. A lot of times I use photos in our home instead of buying art — it's more personal and a lot cheaper!
Recently, I wanted to print a photo from our our latest vacation for our kitchen, but wanted to soften the original picture to look like a watercolor print.
I've used the Waterlogue iPhone app to get this softer paint effect on photos in the past and it's such a cool option! But this time the image the Waterlogue app created was too washed out for what I wanted.
If you're familiar with Adobe Photoshop or similar photo editor program, you can make this kind of edit there. But I wanted an easier and quicker option.
I started searching ways to turn photos into watercolor art and discovered this site called Lunapic. I had so much fun playing around with it! There are a TON of filters available, and it's so easy to use. And did I mention free?
I'm sharing a tutorial on how to use a few of my favorites filters and edits on this site!
I started with this photo of a stone building with those gorgeous wood doors from the village we stayed in:
And turned it into this colorful sketch:
