I love how the chairs came out, and the lettering in the background. The colors were great too...hot and cold.

OK, I'll play:

Levels 8, Simplicity 6, Fidelity 2

I wanted a little more realism in the foreground.

(Original from above the Perurail station in Aguas Calientes, Peru.)

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Very nice. As you probably know I've been messing with artistic filters a very long time. The photo is just a starting canvas for me, and even with a very sharp and interesting photo I find it very hard to lay off tinkering with it. I had just recently decided to cut back on the artsy stuff and try to improve my photograghy skills using a tripod more, getting better DOF, etc., but now you've inspired me to keep going with the art, maybe try new filters and such.

Probably not art... maybe photo illustration. All the photoshop filters look a little canned to me when used straight.

OK, here's one:

-adjusted the hue saturation (+60)

-artistic/paint daubs

-copied the R channel into a new channel, found edges (which creates a contour outline), inverted, adjusted the levels to blow out the junk, and used that as another "black" multiplying layer on top of the paint daubs to add some emphasis to the building edges.

-resisted the urge to use photoshop's canvas texture and instead found a photo I'd taken of scribbling some kids did on our asphalt driveway with sidewalk chalk, and put that on a top layer to add a more natural scruffier look to it.

low res of the original (Westport, Ireland)

I have some occasional fun with the Filter>Artistic>Paint Daub tool. And then there is this after watching Schindler's List a few years ago. I Photoshopped this cock shot from the Museum of Appalachia.

It works a bit better if viewed in Internet Explorer as I have yet to make Firefox do silly things such as crossfades.

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I wanna get in on this too, but I haven't done anything cool with photoshop, and we don't even have photoshop. We have Picasa which is good for fixing trouble spots in pictures and we have whatever came with the computer when we bought it.

I do have a roller derby poster my wife put together using a photo that she messed with, and I have no idea what all she used to make it look like this, but I think it's cool and not entirely off topic.