[Kraellin]

Originally Posted by klassylady25

You're a kick.... that's the song!

craig

[fets_b]

Actually second but the first one didnt work...hope this one does hope you like the color treatment!!! Dont be shy rock the vote
Stef
hope you get to see the pix this time

[Peter S]

With all the great pictures here, Im not sure mine is up to it, but what the Heck

Smoothed
Lucis
Poster edges
Diffuse
Loads of brush strokes to remove a halo that appeared around the edge of the building
Auto levels

Peter

[palms1]

Originally Posted by Peter S

With all the great pictures here, Im not sure mine is up to it, but what the Heck

Peter

I think it just about cuts it Peter
very nice Peter really envy you the lucis still cant justify the price of buying it

Palms

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by palms1

I think it just about cuts it Peter
very nice Peter really envy you the lucis still cant justify the price of buying it

Palms

Thanks Palms.
It was a present so didn't ask price - just very grateful.

Peter

[belhbo]

I'm submitting a pair of images for this challenge. This is the first. I applied 19 effects to the original to "fix" the photo to my taste. This involved the following steps:
1. select the sky as a layer and render in blending mode 'multiply'
2. Rosenman/diffuse glow filter to the sky
3. fill flash (amount=6) to everything but the sky
4. Rosenman/diffuse glow filter to everything
5. Photo Plugins/soft focus filter
6. select sky/inverse then Lighting effects/omni filter
7. Copied image as Layer 1
8. Desaturated L1 by Enhance/remove color
9. Copied L1 by dragging to icon in layer screen to make L2
10. With L2 as active layer, Image/Adjustments/Invert
11. Set L2 blend mode to ‘color dodge’
12. Applied Minimum filter to L2 to taste
13. ‘Merge down’ L2 to L1 taste
14. Adjusted opacity of L1 to Background to taste to add color
15. Photo Plugins/soft focus filter
16. Red Paw/beautifier filter
17. Xero/caravaggio filter to trees to soften them
18. Pog/blurrinator filter to sky
19. Pog/blurrinator filter to trees

[belhbo]

This is my second submission. It takes off from my previous image which involved 19 steps to "fix" the original to my taste. This image is my attempt to give it a 'Van Gogh' look. It involved the following 8 filters:
1. Paint Engine filter/custom brush stroke
2. Paint Daubs
3. IP Process/adaptive equalization
4. Lighting effects/omni
5. Photo Plugins/contrast mask
6. Paint Engine filter/custom brush stroke
7. Rosenman/diffuse glow
8. Little Ink Pot/xpose (to sky) to bring out yellow tones

[Mining Art]

Lots of nice versions, I just played with everything for awhile, went for color and brightness. Combination of built in effects and the Fantastic Machine Paint Engine.

[LdyNghtWng]

Better late than never? I just wanted to try out a new idea and thought I would post =)

Layers in Photoshop

1. New layer
2.Duplicate Background
3.Duplicate Bakground
4. Background

First, I turn off layers 1 and 2 so I can see what I am doing. Layer 3 Find edges, then desaturate, adjust brightness and contrast to get nice line drawing.

Then fill Layer 1 with white. Turn down opacity so I can see layer underneath and used a painterly brush, in this case, 27 pixel spatter brush and added in colour all over the place. Then returned to 100 % opacity and used watercolour filter.

Deleted layer 2.

Then Layer 1 darken and layer 2 overlay to bring in some colour from the original to "fill in the blanks" left by my painting.

Adjusted brightness/contrast to suit, erased a few distracting dark spots by painting over in white, and there it is =)

[mikajomc]

I like the look of your technique. Thanks for giving the details. Welcome to RetouchPro!