Been working on this since I found this site, not sure I remember all the steps or correct order but heres a "best guess". Photoshop-Selected Hawk, cut to clipboard, new layer-solarize, poster edges, adjust color balance/hue & saturation.Pasted back hawk and saved. Photo Impact- select center area, paint red, then effects- twirl. Back to Photoshop- added Bridge, lighting effects-spotlight, Darkened edges and adjusted hue/sat. Back to PhotoImpact and added Frame. Hope thats all of it, next time I'll remember to write down what I did and the settings I used.

Very vivid strong image. Powerful to say the least.

PhotoShop has some great filters to experiment with and it looks like you have been testing a lot of them! The poster edges and the sharp beveling gives the image a very “strong” feel to it. Nicely done.

~T

Nice image. The colors pop out, very vivid.

DW