I found this awesome image at Stock Exchange. I love the whole feel of the image. You can find the huge version at http://www.sxc.hu/photo/561058

Amy

The kind of shot you always hope you come upon..especially when the fog drifts in.

Here are a couple of tries.

Steve

amy,

that's a great find. thank you!

steve,

i like both of those but the second one more so. just one comment on it, however, that translucent border seems a bit distracting. a solid one might have been better. but regardless, very nicely done!

craig

Lovely find Amy had to have two goes at it ( and who knows maybe another)
first one ahb and the second one half a smudge

Palms

Love your first one Palms! This is my try...

Steve prefer the second one the most the red leaves really look like leaves, and Ziaphra thanks "your try " is great love the earthy tones

And yes had another go ( dont worry signing of for the night now) this time used a emboss action

Palms

Yeah...I can take it or leave it on the second one. Tried to see if I could do a combination of the images colors in a frame and they didn't line up as well as I wanted. Sometimes that works and sometimes.....

Steve

amy,

that's a great find. thank you!

steve,

i like both of those but the second one more so. just one comment on it, however, that translucent border seems a bit distracting. a solid one might have been better. but regardless, very nicely done!

craig

Thanks Palms...to me you gave the image a nice sinister, ominous look. Beauty with apprehension. Interesting combination.

Steve

Steve prefer the second one the most the red leaves really look like leaves, and Ziaphra thanks "your try " is great love the earthy tones

And yes had another go ( dont worry signing of for the night now) this time used a emboss action

Palms

Glad y'all like this one. I did about 6 versions before I got one I was even sort-of satisfied with. About 7 different filters applied to different parts of the image, PSP9 and finally VP.

Then in the second I did what I always do with an image... I used it as fodder for my own version of art.

Amy

Retinex, Xero's Carravagio filter, and GIMPressionist Apply Canvas preset with canvas set to 75% of size. :)

A couple of my contributions.....

some very nice pieces here! and palms, you know i love your smudges :)

here's one i did with a new filter forge filter i made but havent submitted yet. dont really have a name for it yet.

craig

and another with the same filter, different settings and some post work in Paint Shop Pro 10 (a little hue/sat and bright/contrast).

craig

sorry, but FF is just too addictive :)

craig

...searching reality.

Craig tried to help you with a name but couldnt :depressed It is probably as hard to name as to create, and by the way love the third one, moody

Palms

thanks palms, on both counts :) the folks over at filter forge suggested it looked a bit like wax or cheesecloth so i may go with 'cheesy wax' or 'waxy cheese' :)

craig

here my version :happy:

I used Gimp :happy:

and here my next version :happy:
to simulate aniso-look I used Gimp's greycstoration plugin, then changed
colours by channels manipulations, and then used nice canvas texture (thanks Sherry!)

I used Gimp :happy:

Really like this last one Barbara, love the greens as well.
Some really great pieces of work in this one

Palms

Yet another watercolor representation.
Mostly done in Gertrudis plus some additinal manipulations in Photoshop.

Pavel