Filters and effects have never been my favorite tools in Photoshop or any other image processing tool, but I am completely blown away with the easy at which some tablet apps now offer quite amazing effects that are simply impossible to resist playing with from time to time.
This is how the original photo looked.
This is what came out after fiddling with Laminar effects during a few seconds.
Straight from the proverbial old shoebox, isn'it?