[Monte Williams]

First off, a photo for which I used more Pixlr and/or PicMonkey tools than I can remember or care to list:

Ghost Town by Monte Williams, on Flickr

And here it is with a Prisma filter:

Ghost Town—Prisma by Monte Williams, on Flickr

And the same photo after some playful PaintCan tinkering:

Ghost Town--PaintCan App by Monte Williams, on Flickr

I initially found PaintCan quite difficult and unforgiving, so much so that, once I did finally figure out how to navigate it (thanks largely to a helpful suggestion from Joe Moore), I overcorrected a bit, producing photos that barely resembled paintings; instead, they mostly just looked like blurry toy photos.

Consequently, my favorite thing to do with PaintCan (and, admittedly, the most self-indulgent thing I do with PaintCan) is to save the photo at various stages of the editing process, which I like to think creates something of a step-by-step process of the "painting" coming together:

I pretty much never bother to photograph people who aren't made of plastic, but I was curious how PaintCan would work on more traditional portraits, and I thought I'd share one of the results here in the form of a self-portrait I purposefully left half-finished to really sell the "paint" gimmick:

Bored, I even photographed a page from my Ninja Turtles coloring book and gave it the PaintCan treatment:

PaintCan seems to work on most any kind of photo.