I couldn't find a decent forum to stick this in, but I wanted to pimp my brother's website. He is doing what he called "Digital Portrait Painting" (he has told me he's not 100% sold on the name but cannot think of anything cooler). His buddy from way back is a professional photographer and he is paying my brother to give it this treatment. My brother also takes pictures others give him and do it. There is actually a picture of my wife and I from Wishes in 2006 that he gave the treatment with a digitally added background since the original photo was black. You can see the pic of my wife and I if you go to 'Enter Portrait Gallery' and we are picture #10. The link is: http://www.mdharkness.com/Home.html
I am very proud of his talent. I just hope it can finally "pay off" for him. Apparently, the professional photographer friend of his is already selling this to his bridal customers. I am trying to convince him to do it to one of my Disney photos, but he told me that none of them peak his artistic interest, that I haven't captured anything that tells an intriguing story yet.
