The white house is on the hill beside Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. I've been told it was a favorite residence for law students. The picture was taken from a public park some distance away with a Mavica digital camera at full zoom, x20 if memory serves.



The "repair" was to eliminate the power lines, phone lines, whatever they were, which was done at various times in various ways in the last 20 years. The prep for the Free Painting, Landscape Preset, version was simply to lighten the image with a white layer on overlay mode with reduced opacity. A Soft Light mode is also effective for this.

I rarely used painting effects on my own digital photos before beginning to use GIMP a couple of years ago. Not to suggest the photos are somehow too good to deliberately distort (they certainly are not) I just didn't care for the look I usually got from the effects. Diego's plug-ins, especially the recent ones, have been different enough from what was previously available to me to completely change my mind. Feels like I've been waiting a long time for this. Very glad to have it available now.

I'm not the addressee, Ella, but I feel the urgency to post my opinion: a very nice and "credible" real painting; I hope you think the same.
Thanks for posting it.

:paint Enjoying this effect.