Given what I started with and what I ended up with, I’m reminded of Bare Naked Ladies’ “Tonight Is The Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel.”
I like the effect – maybe one of these times I should keep track of which filters and effects and settings I used so that I can more or less replicate it at some point in the future instead of just stumbling blind from scratch every time.
Maybe.
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 
I’ve been playing with filters on pictures in Gimp for book covers. Eventually I discovered two which are really useful!
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I’ve got Gimp but never learned it – had Photoshop and loved it but then they went to the “pay-every-month-until-ten-years-after-you’re-dead” model – I finally gave in and got it again. For quickies like this I just use the filters in IrfanView, which is free and marvelous, if simple.
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