Impression of the Lake District

Shot on very expired APS film and then manipulated to within an inch of its life in GIMP.

 

Gives a nice painting-like effect without using a preset.

 

Basic steps:

1. Duplicate

2. Despeckle top layer with adaptive=no recursive=yes

3. equalise top layer and set to around 50% opacity and merge mode=dodge

4. lower layer despeckle adaptive=yes

 

HSS!

Done