To create this image, I removed a few distractions, reduced noise with Noise Ninja, sharpened with Nik Sharpener Pro, applied an orton layer, seeram illustration action and a photo warming filter layer.
Dan- I absolutely love it-has to be one of my favorites ever posted in this forum!!! The effect along w/ the palms w/ the addition of the warming filter-just great! If it were mine I might clone that one stick going perpendicular to the palm tree on the right-but just the one. I also am not sure but it may need a slight rotation. Dan this is very cool and look forward to more of this series!!!
Nice one, Dan! I'd be interested to see it au natural without the illustrated part and just the Orton applied. This is nice but feels a bit overdone to me.
I do really love the silky texture to the entire image, though.