Made some pics the other day and thought maybe you'd like to play? Have fun if you will

I thought the village was an excellent BW candidate. Thank you for sharing your photos.

Beautiful picture, Amica. Thanks for sharing!
Sylvia

Nice images Amica

Palms

Thank you and wow, beautiful outcome to all, personally I like the b/w interpretation of Danny best, absolutely catching the ruins :-)

Beautiful shots Amica999.

Added sky and reflection.
Modified perspective to give the comp more dynamic.
Curve for contrast.
Pumped saturation.
Blended impressionist chalk for artistic flavor.

Beautiful Lonnie, wish we had the sky as blue when we were there :-) Looks great. Thanks for playing

Here's my go... Palms, love your attempt!
Thanks for the pic.

very grunchy, kimlou, like that one

Thank you, Kimlou I think i have gone to the dark side lately :grin: but it makes a change from the over saturated look i also like
Do i detect that you also are venturing into the dark and grungy style ?

Palms

Thank you, Kimlou I think i have gone to the dark side lately :grin: but it makes a change from the over saturated look i also like
Do i detect that you also are venturing into the dark and grungy style ?

Palms

Well I thought I would give it a go, it just seems right for this image!

Amica, you found my weak spot. Love to paint old buildings.

Watercolor with PST.

Amica, you found my weak spot. Love to paint old buildings.

Watercolor with PST.

Very nice Swampy I keep trying the pst tool, get a bit better each time :)

Palms

Very nice Swampy, Berlin has more old buildings than you would like :-) Will keep your weekness in mind next time I go shooting, will take a while as winter came back :-)
Attached another one to bridge the waiting :-)

I wasn't going to do this image but Lonnie did such a beautiful rendition it inspired me to have a go.

Palms, Painting soft watercolors has become a challenge since getting my Intel Mac and not having BUZZ available. I can get to BUZZ, but I have to quit Photoshop, set it for Rosetta mode, relaunch Photoshop, do BUZZ, quit, reset Photoshop for Intel, then load the buzzed version. What a pain.

In the mean time I working on new ways to simplify an image for painting and I kind of liking the minimalist look I've been getting with cutout, drybrush and other filters when faded.

Getting just enough "painted" effect on the version that will be saved as the Pattern is 3/4 of the battle. The PST brushes themselves offer some great watercolor effects especially the ones with wet edges at mid to low opacity,

Here's my take on the other photo, obviously goin' for drama...

Cloned out power lines
Punched up sky
Perspective correction
Crop for composition
PWL against sepia vignette
Embossed painterly

Never really had much luck with the pattern stamp tool so I thought I'd give it another go (inspired by Swampy). So here's my first real attempt with the pst.

Lonnie, Kimlou, nice interpretations here. I personally like the "sinistre" look with this picture :-)

Keep it up, Kim. That is nice.

Thanks Swampy, glad to know I'm on the right lines with it (at last!)

Kim- great job with the PST, sometimes I get really disappointed with it and other times I just love the results I get
Swampy- thanks for the PST tips

Everyone has done wonderful work, but Sylvia, your soft pastel look really stood out for me.
As for all the grungy looks, I went for something a bit more colorful. Maybe a bit too colorful, but at least I'm different :)

Thank you, Jordan :)
Sylvia

Thank you for the photos.

Pavel

@Jordan and Pavel, nice work indeed

Keep coming back to this image, couldn't resist another go now I have impressionist plug-in!