O. Olgen took this photo of a shop in Turkey.

Danny:
I really liked the contrast of stone shop with the colorful fabric in the shop's doorway.
Thanks
Bob

I agree, Bob. I, too, liked the contrast between the colors and the architecture.

I applied impressionist style #djroil24 (available HERE (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=69893#post69893) ) on this one. I like it when I can do something I like in less than 24 layers!

~Danny~

Just Xero Lithograph and texture.

Christine

I used the Impressionist Tutorial on this one. Used the default Pencil Sketch settings
A Larger Image (http://www.pbase.com/image/32478012.jpg)

Nice choice of photo Danny, thank you. Architecture is always popular to work on along with colours! Rlspencer - nice work and nicely defined.
Danny - Like your rendition very much. Xaran - lovely pastel effect, well done. Steve - terrific work, you got a good colour going on the walls and good choice of brushstrokes...

I was determined to experiment with Impressionist. Lightened image via Levels first. Duped layer - Impressionist/Conte Faithful (rather like this one...)only change made was reduced from 100 to 25%.
Layer Mode - Soft Light slightly reduced/to suit the image.
Applied a mask, filled in background with an image colour. Merged
and applied a canvas texture.

I like working with textures.

Please do not ask how I got there - I cannot remember!

Super photo with great colours in it and a beautiful doorway

so got the ahb brush's out

Palms

I worked on the red channel to get the building details as line art. Masked out the window areas and ran a water color filter on the underling photo. Played with the blending modes until I got something I liked and added a beige color fill layer to add the oxydation color back to the building. Lovely photo!

Nice variants, guys.
AHB+Smart Blur and blendings

Palms, I'm loving that style...

Thank you Lonnie, it is a technique i enjoy and the bright colours of this one was irresistable

Palms

Dup, ACE, Grain Extract Overlay technique for this one. Did some Supersmooth (Xero filter) also. :)

Lots of texture as well as colours in this one. Nice pics all.

Peter

Better quality one:-

[img=http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/5586/turkeyheo5.th.jpg] (http://img115.imageshack.us/my.php?image=turkeyheo5.jpg)

Wish I had listened more in art classes. Did not learn anything about styles and the artists techniques. So what I do is not copying anyone it's just what feels and looks right. I used many steps in the Gertrudis software to acheive this look so hope it looks OK.

Lots of folks love Gertrudis, bcarll. It looks great to me!

bcarll looks very nice to me ( i am the same as you and dont know much about the names that go with all the styles but you even learn that here as well )

Palms