Graphic Novelization of a Favorite Tree Photo

Here's an old favorite photo (from four years ago) that I processed with Photomatix. I kept this one as my desktop background picture for a while. 

The image had all of the workings for what goes in to a great graphic novel filter image: Wood grain, tree branches, winding roots, grass. I made four different light levels of Graphic Novel filter images and layered them all together in Photoshop Elements:

Finally, I added the color back into the graphic novel image. It's interesting to compare the original HDR above with the colorized graphic novel below. I think the lines in the graphic novel image help to give better definition to the image.

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