Last winter from my front porch. Adjusted with hue/sat for more blue. New layer with 20 pixel border stroke. The old standby for icicles - flip the layer 90° clockwise, do a wind blast filter (from the right) about three times, re-rotate back to original and diffuse/normal. I also ran hue/sat colorize on it to blend it more with the picture color.

Brrrrr! I need some hot chocolate now!
:wavey:

First entry in this gallery challenge!
Excellent work Phil, that's pretty much what it looks like when I look out my window in mid january :cold:

- David :)

Does make you want to grab a warm blanket. You got the cold frosty feel to this one for sure. Excellent job. My favorite part was the icicles. They look real. :)
DJ

Now that’s a frosty image! Congratulations on being the first entry and a nicely done one at that. I agree with DJ, the icicles are my favorite part too. They make a nice wintry photo edge.

~T

Now that's a chilling image. :) Nice work.

Gary,

I moved your image to it's own thread in the Gallery Challenge #10 forum, so everyone can comment on it separately there.

You can view it directly by going here (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4621)

Cheers,

~T

Thanks. :)

That is one cold looking yard Blackknight. Glad I'm in NY (sometimes)
Debbie