This is a splice (by me) of two images of Lopez Island, WA taken by a friend of member Marylynn Strickland. Marylynn (with the photographers permission) thought it might make a fun CI.

Note: The colors were not manipulated by me. This is a soon-after-sunset shot.

Thanks, Marylynn -- and tell your friend thanks, too.

~Danny~

MaryLynn -- wonderful image -- the colors and the mood.

Using the Kaleidoscope action from RetouchPro's forum topic on the subject, I then selected some areas for post-processing -- selected a hue from the image to use for the border (left white by the action) and ran a Leather texturizer filter on it. Selected another copy of the moon from the original and added it in the center, with a radial zoom blur for effect.

This one is easy.
I duped the Background.
Then I loaded the Red Channel as a selection and ran the Impressionist:Paint:Hot Swirl with a brush size at 63%.
Then I loaded the Blue Channel and did the same.
Ditto for the Green Channel, but I Faded to a lower Opacity.
Then I loaded the Red Channel and Inverted the Selection and ran the same filter.
Faded to a lower opacity.
Loaded and Inverted the Blue Channel and did the same, only I Faded to Darken.
Ditto for the Green Channel.

Voila.

I first got a little more color in image by duping 2x, one for cmyk, one for lab. Curves to adjust those two, then copy/paste into orig. image. the rest is in the layers palette.
kiska

@#$%^&**((*&&^%%$$##@@!
Go away CJ!!!!!!

Kiska, Ohhhhh!!!!! Very nice Kaleidoscope. WOW!! And great job on the sunrise.

I'm sure glad T got the Kaleidoscope thread going again. Those are fun to make and CJ's really caught my eye.

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On this one I used a modified (by me) version of Wayne's C6 to C41 cross-processing action. See THIS POST (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=78251#poststop) for Wayne's actions. The comments in the post following his post describe the changes I made to them.)

I then experimented with the Curves Adjustment Layer settings to get a very unique color mix.

Fun and very interesting stuff! Thanks, Wayne, for the inspiration.

~Danny~

Hi,
I was playing around w/ this one, trying to figure out which direction I wanted to go with it. Inverted, applied craqlure, and then increased saturation, and just kept looking at that strange black moon and decided to keep it.
http://www.pbase.com/image/38392120

Thanks, Danny, for posting the picture of Lopez Moon. I, too, had spliced the two pictures together but I like the tree placement better on your version.

Here is a conservative interpretation that I have come up with.

Duplicated background and applied Diffuse Glow
Selected the trees and applied Watercolor/Soft Light 20%
Created a luminosity layer at 20%

Well you know how i made this its all down to different layers adding to the original.

Its now 2am ish i have to go bed after this posting...This site is addictive!

Just one more...i sound like a naughty kid!

Kiska, you really make me :lol:!!
Here's my impressionist - color-pencil sketch.