A fab set of images Brian, and interesting to see your edit process too.
I don't flatten the images. I like to keep the layers separate so I can go back and adjust it at any point. Probably the reason some of my photoshop files are flippin' enormous, but I like the flexibility to change my mind over an edit.
Each image can take between ten minutes and a couple of hours depending on the image and how many of the above steps I take.
Same here, I try not to spend too long on an image (the longer I take the more I seem to over-analyse and second guess what I am actually doing)
Thanks Dan, and thanks for the inspiration behind the post. I think if I am honest that the above process is when everything goes well. If you were to look through my folders you would often see image1-wip, image1-v1, image-final, image1-final-v2 etc all with all of their layers intact ha ha. I have been told that I am not the only person that does this. 😂😂