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The sky looked beautiful the other day, so I naturally took a picture of it. With a picture so simple like this, I could have done a variety of different effects on it. But I chose to first crop it, because there were a few distracting trees in the corner. I also brightened the picture, to make the colors softer.

Then I began to play around with the different filter effects, until I settled on one called Cubism. Cubism had a very interesting effect on this image, because it is very versatile. In one value, it made the clouds appear cartoon-like. I would have chosen the cartoon clouds, if there were perhaps a bird in the sky as well. But I adjusted the values and got a much more artistic, painter-like outcome on the clouds.

I'm pleased with this project because it shows how the smallest tweak of a value can drastically change an image. The filter itself even changes! This image almost looks as if someone had painted it in the Impressionism style!