Laura Macky’s photo is lovely as is. For this challenge I wanted to enhance the mood created by the old boat and bring that into the background. Here’s Photoshop recipe:
- Original image with some slight adjustment in Lightroom
- Curve adjustment layer: negative RGB, opacity 30%
- Grunge layer applied in on1 to a copy of original, blend mode: difference
- My cloud image. Blende mode: Hard Light, opacity 70%
- B&W adjustment layer default, opacity 70%
- Copy of original layer masked to show the boat, opacity 80%
- Smoke brushed, blend mode: Soft Light, opacity 89%
My version has an old postcard look and is also somewhat ominous.
Link to One Photo Focus http://wp.me/p14eaH-24Q
Sherry Felix - port4u 
Nicely edited Katie! I like the texture you gave it. 🙂 Hope you have a wonderful 2016! Happy New Year!
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Laura’s picture was such a great starting point, I love your treatment of it, a lovely warm image with lots of great texture.
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Thank you so much.
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