I started with Pixel Bender, oil paint, using different opacities for the foreground and the background. I replaced a plain sky with a bit of clouds and adjusted with PS gradients at very low opacity. Then some of the regular PS tools of curves, saturation, etc.
This is just part of a fence that is still standing in a lovely high mountain park area that I try to visit yearly. Out here "park" means a plains-like area between mountains.








