As promised, a photo I took on a recent holiday. Enjoy creating....!

Such a lovely place to be on a sunny day!

I just used Color Range to separate out the sky and ran halftones-then Fragment and Ocean Ripple on it. Took a Color Range of the sand/plants and similar range and copied to own layer set to Screen layer mode. Added texture layer and erased to taste.

I desat, dodge/burn, oversharpened, aniso. Masks, blends,opacities.

Neve - Thanks for the pic to work on. Keep 'em comin'!

CJ and Kiska - I like both of your renditions. Always a pleasure to see either of your work.

T

After the last two, I decided to NOT go the path of the artistic.

This is mainly done using various curve, level, and selective color adjustment layers, while masking in parts. Mainly, I kept the sky and land areas seperate in the adjustments. I used a little background Gaussian blur to make the trawler pop just slightly.
I cropped it, because I didn't like the sky taking over half the composition.

T

:bigthmb: Just a few posts but such variety, well done everyone!

PSP8.1

Quick Watercolour....

Bottom Layer - Buzz Simplifier - Dupe BL
L2 - Virtual Painter/Pastel/Default (free filter)
Mode - Luminance (L) - Dupe L2
L3 - Overlay 38%
Merged all visible.
Mask added
New Layer (bottom) filled with white.
Merged both layers.
Matte frame

VP Gouache then Painter Flat Oil Cloner.

Christine

OOOH very painterly, lovely! :nod:

Interesting varied effects!
Painter 8, sargent brush modified. Ooooh, i love my new toy!! Thank you dear Neve, for this beautiful photo!

Woosh, woosh, Judy's at work. VERY painterly indeed. :)

Yes, in between grocery shopping, household chores etc., I'm "RAPTUROUS"as well.... :lol: