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Nice photo, Mike! Topaz Denoise AI clean, Topaz Gigapixel AI x6, resized to original, ACR adjustments of geometry, highlights, Topaz Detail 3 large details slider, Hue/Saturation master increase in PS, Topaz Sharpen AI standard.

New sky and a little later in the evening.

Hey, Glenn. Déjà vu, but we do get fresh art work and more vegetation this time! :) I like them both.

A combination of two sketch versions.

BREAKING NEWS: Overnight the spirit of Antoni Gaudí transforms an entire block in his beloved Barcelona.

As always, there are no rules as to how you apply your post-processing to this image; but, please let us know what you have done so we can all learn. If you would like to post a candidate image next week, please ensure it is of sufficiently high resolution for manipulation by the participants (3000px on the long side, 300dpi for example). Most of all, let's have fun while we are learning or demonstrating how we use our post-processing software, imaginations and interpretations. Lots of balconies in Barcelona.

Mike-- Were you trying to recreate the iconic Marilyn Monroe photo?

Exposure SnapArt impasto painting with adjustments in ACR.

[ATTACH=full]1432884[/ATTACH] Mike, Your photo is very cool!

Oops...I wrongly identified the geyser in this post. :rolleyes: My bad, as they say. Props to you, Old Faithful!

Early Snow?

I tried to make all the different areas in the photo interesting enough to look at. I think I strayed a little too far from the original photo. I didn't cheat and use the raw version.

There are no rules as to how you apply your post-processing to this image; but, please let us know what you have done so we can all learn. If you would like to post a candidate image next week, please ensure it is of sufficiently high resolution for manipulation by the participants (3000px on the long side, 300dpi for example). Most of all, let's have fun while we are learning or demonstrating how we use our post-processing software, imaginations and interpretations. SOOC. Not THE GEYSER but A geyser in Yellowstone.

Guess I'm in my gloomy phase again.

OTT Painting

Leslie--I agree, this photo is a distortion nightmare, taken from a moving boat no less. I do have the raw to work on, but I'm still not sure things are sorted out as viewed in person.

There are no rules as to how you apply your post-processing to this image; but, please let us know what you have done so we can all learn. If you would like to post a candidate image next week, please ensure it is of sufficiently high resolution for manipulation by the participants (3000px on the long side, 300dpi for example). Most of all, let's have fun while we are learning or demonstrating how we use our post-processing software, imaginations and interpretations. Straight out of camera landscape photo with many problems!

A little Topaz Remix AI, Topaz Simplify, SNS-HDR and a crop.

I so love the view from my balcony, especially when the water filter seems to animate the corpses. Tea, anyone?

Oops, the PHOTO ABOVE is in ProPhoto RGB. THE VERSION BELOW THIS LINE OF TYPE IS sRGB. Sorry for the confusion.