Here's an interesting still life called "Clutter" from www.pdphoto.org
Hope you enjoy it.

AmyHutton

Nobody likes this one? Maybe I have weird taste!

Buzz, seriously increase saturation, sharpen the heck out of it. Nothing more. Looks much nicer at full resolution.

AmyHutton

I like your image, Amy, and i'm happy with my experiment. This is what i did.
L1 - played with levels - 0,2.46,141, then cutout filter.
L2 - duplicated and applied glowing edges 3,6,5, invert, g'blur 1.7.
L3 - Dup L1, hardlight blend.
L4 - Dup L1, multiply blend.
L5 - Dup L1, impression filter (modified), opac 72.
L6 - Select all, copy merged, paste. Ps7 filter - watercolor.
L7 - Blank layer -fill - render clouds- foregr color majenta backgr color green.
L8 - Select all, copy merged, paste.

Jaykita....and I'm VERY happy with your interpretation!

Amy

Amy, I like yours a lot. Yours is good, too, Jaykita.

For mine, I optimized contrast & saturation using PSP's built-in tools. Then used Mehdi's posterizer (available here: http://www.selwane.com/mehdi/). Next, Adobe posterizer, followed by edge-enhance more.

Cheers! & Happy Thanksgiving!
Jeff

Ha! You think YOU have "weird taste"!! Here's "Clutter - playing baseball"

Now that's weird... ;)

I like the image -- it's just the kind that let's you visualize your imagination...

New toys... (free plugins) from http://www.Redfieldplugins.com.

Danny, I love the fish that you've added to the first one. Very artsy! :happy:

I decided to play with this one and went pretty abstract :happy:
http://www.pbase.com/image/40210713

Cat, now this is a picture to hold interest for a long time. The composition and coloring are great. The flow isn't static nor boring. It is one of those abstracts that makes one feel good. :bow:

Janet

Thanks, Janet :happy: It was a fun one to do as I got to playing w/ the polarize filter in PS.

I can't give you exact steps I'm sorry but basically....

Made a selection of the ball and repasted as new layer and made it a full ball shape and merged layers. Duped bottom layer. Selected around this ball and used FP/Flood Filter. Erased a small amount of the water effect around the base of the ball and reduced the opacity so that the other bits and bobs showed through the water slightly. Duped this layer and L3 Screen Mode. Merged all.

Duped this layer - L2 Did another selection again of a straight horizon and around the ball once again...another FP/Flood fill but wavier. Again slightly reduced opacity. Merged again. Sharpen tool...all the litter under the water.
Added a lighting effect and some text.

Not exactly "arty" but a change is as good as a rest... :lmao:

I did this a few days ago but for some reason it wouldn't upload, now I can't remember what I did with it.

Peter

Larger one:-

[img=http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/1119/muddlehiq2.th.jpg] (http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=muddlehiq2.jpg)

Not feeling creative tonight, so got the Amazing Circle action out (this time) to help create this one (did a few other things during the preprocessing in GIMP before porting the result into CS2 for the final Action). :)