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My father-in-law took this picture of my son running for me while we were at the beach. I loved the motion, and story it conveyed, but it was so blurry it had to be rescued.
I opened it in Gimp, and used the clone stamp to clear out the sign in the background and clean up the back of my son's shirt. I duplicated the layer. I adjusted the colors of the sky and beach in separate layers and used a layer mask to get both colors correct. I then applied two textures (one golden one and one sandy one) as layers and changed the layer mode on each of the textures to Overlay. I reduced the opacity of the texture layers until I was happy.
The textures added a nice "painting" effect and made the picture artistic rather than just blurry. What do you think?