Public domain photo of a Danish immigrant at Ellis Island in the early twentieth century that was altered with the Perfect Exposure plug-in (dehaze effect), then the Photoshop paintbrush, then the Topaz DeNoise plug-in, then Topaz Clarity plug-in (desaturated warm edge effect), then the Topaz Clarity plug-in (studio effect; base image), then the AKVIS Sketch plug-in on the base image (soft stumping effect; soft stumping image), then the Topaz Impression plug-in on the base image (soft sketch effect type 14 stroke; sketch image), then the soft stumping image was overlaid and merged with the sketch image, then the Alien Skin Exposure X2 plug-in (vignette effect), then the Topaz Adjust plug-in (burning), then the Topaz Clarity plug-in (portrait soft effect), then the Topaz Adjust plug-in (burning), then the Photoshop paintbrush, and then the Alien Skin Exposure X2 plug-in (vignette effect). Public domain image by Augustus F. Sherman courtesy of The New York Public Library. High-resolution JPEG image download on Flickr.