Burano, in the lagoon of Venice

Just beginning to appreciate and experiment with this sort of thing.

Used paint daub, glass, angled strokes, canvas texture and emboss on

a seperate layer in combination.

Excellent image. Very nice colours. Congratulations.

nice colours and compostion

Wow ... very interesting ratings on this one. But, I'm a little curious. I know people ask this all the time, but if you give me a 2/3 or a 3/3, would you mind explaining it, whoever you are? I've submitted a lot of photos for critiques over the last year and don't usually get twos. In fact, the unaltered version of this received nothing less than five! So, obviously some people don't like PS manipulations or photos coverted to oil paintings or the heavy saturation (necessary to get that painting look in this case). But, I'm just experimenting with this stuff and trying to learn, so if I'm misguided here, attempt to explain it to me.

Nice composition but the manipulation is not doing anything for me. It's too obvious. I think I would love the original.

Quite a nice shot. I like almost everything. "Almost" means the red and violet buildings are too strong. At least for me. But is very nice and interesting. By the way, thanks for your comment on my picture.

Here the painting effect don't work very well in my opinion. It is hardly different of the original photo. I don't know why. I have tried also to obtain some oil painting effect and have never be satisfied of the result. It works better with large paint brushes.

I do know why it didn't work now. It has to do with the resolution of the original picture. If you apply the filters to a high res pic (as I did here to the original 8MP shot), the detail is too fine to make it out unless you print it huge. I've printed this at 11 X 14 and it looks pretty good, but not as good as the original picture so it was a failure in that regard. Anyway, if you lower the resolution of the picture before you apply the filters, as I did to some others in this folder, you get a much more painterly effect.

The Paint work intended may not have worked but the photo concept I like allot. Brilliant colouring very good composition. I don't do much of this is PS. But this is good. So many ways to do these things that the mind boggles. The fun part is working it out and charting it as you go. Well done Bill I still think this photo is worth a view. Regards Randall