Amazing photoshop....

It's amazing what photoshop can do. We've all heard about the edits for media and entertainment. But I was still amazed what someone did with one of my photographs. There's a "fix my pic" group on Flickr, where people can can post photos they would like to have corrected or artistically interpreted. Here's the result for mine:

BEFORE





AFTER



posted by Clearly Ambiguous
Increased saturation by 40%
Increased contrast 50%
Decreased brighten 50%
Created a second layer and used a paint brush type filter.
Set opacity to 50% and merged to original layer
Clarify 1
added frame.