By following these instructions, you can make a postcard effect too!

Take 3 pictures of the same scene, setting your camera to different shutter speeds. In the end you want to have an overexposed, properly exposed, and an underexposed image. One of each exposure.

Load the 3 images into HDRsoft’s Photomatix Pro and produce a Tone Mapped HDR image.

Using Nikon’s Colour EFex Pro 3 I altered the image with Tonal Contrast, Bi-Colour Filters, and Cross Processing.

The Final Step is to Overlay (Soft Light) another image of a texture in Photoshop.

In the studio at Chemical Sound, Toronto.