It's been a long week, and this pretty much sums up how it's been. I followed THIS TUTORIAL for the know how and the rest of the credits go to:

a different view of my photo St. Jay Congo for the castle.

Reminisce II for the water and the rock foundation.

cgtextures for the sky and cloud textures,

and the rest was effects and textures made in PhotoShop.

I certainly had fun with it and learned some new things along the way, so perhaps it was not all wasted energy!

:)PJ