Photo Editing: From photograph to art

This is the original, The Abbey for the Arts in Glen Nevis, Ontario.I went through a number of stages to transform this image … enough that I know I couldn’t reproduce it … I started with  linedraw in PS Elements and moved on to Sagelight for tints and details through HDR effects, and then over to Fotosketcher for the painterly effects, and back to Sagelight for fine tuning.