Via via I learned some graph­ic trick with the high­est im­pres­sive-re­sult/hard-to-do ra­tio I've ex­pe­ri­ence so far. The hard­est part is find­ing some good im­ages to use, then it's easy as pie us­ing Gimp. Of the al­most 4000 im­ages I screened these were the re­sults:

The last one was easy be­cause the orig­i­nal im­age al­ready looked like it was of a minia­ture.