Took my experiment into creating fake HDRs and acidified it. lol

Basically I ran G'MIC's Cartoon preset (lowered sharpness and set edge thickness to zero) on the convolution layer and set that layer result to Grain merge. I then used a copy of the original layer, copied it on top and set to color. I did do some additional play for further simplicaton but that's the nuance stuff that's my personal secret (i.e., way too lazy to outline everything; the above steps get you quite close though). Some may like the result; others won't. Again, just an experiment.

ref: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... _visit.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34520999@ ... 4/sizes/o/

I like it lyle. And the various effects and layers have been applied democratically to the whole image.

Exaggeration filter with convolution layer deleted and an extra multiplied layer.

Wow! That is an amazing image! I think I must try that myself!

I like a 2 minute blend of the 2 with more detail in the foreground (bottom of the gradient layer mask) and abstract sky quickly erased.

Nice blended result, Brian.