@pittendrigh thanks for sharing the pelican with us. The natural colour palette is truly beautiful, complementary full. A lot of interesting POVs and executions. I like your own version, also @msd 's . @Mike_Bing 's lying bird ('cause of the nose, avoiding misunderstandings) gives much needed extra space - Lola’s a bit centered - good one!
Filmulator, already pretty nice IMO (that HL rescuing tool is needed)
gimp
the processing in gimp, all gmic but a curve << experimented blending a LCE layer in divide blending mode, plus an inverted in exclusion BM
cheers
PS
BTW I have the feeling the (dark) BKG theme in pixls is darker; anyone’s also experiencing that