Wild and surreal

For the first 10 years of my career, I did nothing but special effects -- and this was in the film days. Wild and surreal images still appeal to me, so I was looking through my past Venice pictures with fresh eyes trying to come up with a creative image. This is what happened. Here are the steps: 1) I mirrored the the shot of the colorful houses on Burano Island, 2) then I used the Photoshop plugin 'Flood' to eliminate the small motor boats tied up along the canal, 3) using the pulldown menu command, Image > adjustments > hue/saturation, I punched the saturation to outrageous proportions, 4) I used Select > all, then Edit > transform > distort to angle the entire background, and 5) I selected the costumed model from another picture and pasted her in front of the architecture.