I got this Idea thinking about biology from school,I remembered photosynthesis and it just took a second to realize I needed a synthetic photo. So I photographed a picture of me making a synthetic photo and kept the adjustments "basic"
Converted from raw
cropped
adjusted levels
adjust Hue/saturation
resize
USM
save for web
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You achieved this under basic editing rules?!? Amazing!!! Is this a photo of a photo? I hope you post how you did this because I would definitely like to learn this trick.