i wanted this to be a painting as well....although something went awry on the upload to flickr as this image looks far darker than it did in ps.....i had a crash last weekend and had to get a new box and reload everything....if someone has some insight to this problem, i sure would appreciate a reply....
anyway, here it is...
i cropped with a slight adjustment to the leveling of the frame...used levels and shadows/highlights to make the water appear less white...sharpened....duplicated the layer....used the dry brush filter and set it to overlay to pop out the colors...decreased the opacity of this layer...the blues started bothering me so i used a color adjustment layer of orange, set to color and decreased the opacity....added a vignette on a seperate layer and again used the overlay blending to help seperate the water as it fell....freaked out about the bits of sky in the upper left of the frame and went back, cloning it out of the first two layers....
i'm so bummed that this image went so dark when it uploaded.....
thanks
peeper