How to achieve this look?

[TranquilGames]

Hi, first time posting here, so hi to all.....

im looking for the right settings to achieve a look like this, it looks like a watercolour painting but smoother and more vibrant, any help would be very much appreciated....

many thanks

[iDad]

first thing I thought of was Topaz Detail
http://www.topazlabs.com/detail/

great pluggin!

[TranquilGames]

Many thanks, looks like a great plugin....

do you think it is possible to achieve it with the standalone filters?

[iDad]

I'm sure it is but lots of tweaking to get there and you'll have to very proficient with filters

[jerryb]

hi,
my 2 cents worth.
to get something like that.... iI think basically they mask off the sky and did a saturation hue adjustment to deepen the ccolor.... along with a curve adjustment and then they mask the rest of the scenry .... applied alittle again a hue and saturation, maybe used the channel mixer a little .

once you got your colors the way you want... then you can look at the various other techniques to apply such as water color, imprssionist, etc...

now i am not that good so I end up with plugins and the one i uses is this to stretchout the color tonality ...
http://www.mediachance.com/plugins/redynamix.html

[iDad]

jerryb,That looks like a decent pluggin also.

[jerryb]

hi,
thank you.... i also picked it because of the price...lol ... it was good value for what it does.. i like the idea the within the plug you have curve and hue adjustments, gamma adj, and such... it has really worked out good for me...

jerryb,That looks like a decent pluggin also.