This is the river walk along the Mississippi River in Memphis, Tennessee. Not sure if this works or not, it's hard to tell after a few hours on it. At this point, it seems that the original photograph just may be better, but I do kinda like this effect too. I'm not gonna post the original here, but from this version you can for the most part figure it out. Does it work, or is it a bit overdone? Comments? Be rough, if necessary. I'm relatively new here, but I've already developed a lot of respect for those of you I regularly see here on the forum.

Nice job! The diagonal composition keeps the eye following the highway, letting the viewer explore the entire image. It pulls you towards the right, which is what you'd want. I assume you used "film grain" for your effect. Regardless, it adds a nice "surrealism" to the pic. Looks "not quite a photo/not quite a painting", if ya know what I mean. Welcome to the forum. Looking forward to more of your work. Nick

IMHO the composition is excellent, and it all works well...but the purple tone of the road is a little dominant. Anyway, hope to see more of your work soon! :)

The purple road kind of bothered me too, and I may tone it down some even though I have already, but I also thought it matched well with the bright yellow-green grass. I didn't use the film grain effect, but did in part have a blend of 3 layers using "find edges" under the "stylize" filter with "overlay" as the layer option. It's part of the same thing I did with the Memphis Brewery photo. Like nnelson1 said, "not quite a photo/not quite a painting", although the brewery colors remained closer to the original. If there were a car wreck here with police cars, ambulances, fire trucks and a huge crowd, then this could be my contest street shot!

Neat work! "Purple road, take me home to the place I belong..." (Singing. Badly.) he he - seriously, though, I like this. The road isn't overly purple, it's just a strong colour like the rest of the pic. If it was close to the dark grey of Tarmac it would be too harsh, IMO. Nice. (",)

I would consider darkening up the image a bit. or burn in the sky. I love the composition, but there is somthing that bothers me with the way the sky goes compleetly white. -Gabe-