Lilies - for you to play with

[amica999]

Sorry for the noise, but still experimenting with my new toy

[lkroll]

Tried a glass globe.

[amica999]

Originally Posted by lkroll

Tried a glass globe.

I knew I could depend on you to jump in don't know why, but I was expecting a seamless texture. Glad you did a globe (first) , that's simply amazing
Thanks for the play

[lkroll]

Created a seamless texture and then used Polar Coordinates for the globe. So you got it partly right. lol

[lkroll]

A floating orb version this time. Used Flaming Pear's Ornament filter before the Polar Coordinates step this time. Also used Redfield's free Water Ripples filter for the water effect.

[amica999]

Lovely, Lyle. I went a little more conventional and smudged away

[geepee52]

Nice pics to play with.Used Topaz Clean.
Thanks
Grant

[ghealy]

Pretty flowers, Amica. What Panasonic camera do you have?

Played with this in Paintshop Pro v9. Combined layers of Line art with brushstrokes, added addition layers of textures and then messed around with blend modes, finally cropped to square.

With the necessary compression to post here, you lose some of the texture and pick up some jpeg artifacts, but it still gives the general idea.

Thanks for letting me play.

--Gene

[amica999]

Nice play, Grant, Looks good lighter too

Gene, I have a Lumix FZ28. I shot those without flash so some noise was already introduced. Nice crop and I can imagine the brush strokes. If you want to post larger versions (sometimes necessary) you can use Photobucket etc. and post a link here besides the thumbnail. Further you can support this site as patron and the 100k limit will double.

Thank you all for playing

[Steve Conway]

Where's Palms???

Haven't seen HER post yet!

Steve C.

[amica999]

Steve, that looks simply amazing.

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by amica999

Steve, that looks simply amazing.

You made it easy with your nice image ...thanks.

Steve C.

[ghealy]

@ Amica: I had a FZ30. Loved that little guy. <smile> Now shoot with a Canon 5D. And thanks for the added info about linking and such.

@Steve. Oooh that is real nice! Well done.

[palms]

Originally Posted by Steve Conway

Where's Palms???

Haven't seen HER post yet!

Steve C.

Here i am,
you didnt think i would miss some flowers did you ?

first one is ahb

second is plastic wrap filter, i have never got on with this filter before but i think it had done good on these lovely lily's

third is with some added textures

sorry Amica but in a not very traditional mode today

Palms

[Cupcake]

Thanks for the nice picture.
Here is my play.

[amica999]

No need to be sorry, Palms, I do like the diversity with which people approach the images.
Can't decide if I like No 2 or No. 3 better, your AHB version looks a little very dark on my screen that is....

@ Gene, I fell in love right away with this little camera. I have a Casio, which is a real small pocket cam - and it made some nice shots - if not - the error has to be searched behind the cam. But I really missed some wide angle, some real zoom AND most of all shooting in RAW - and I didn't want to have a truck for the equipment - because I could predict that I wouldn't take the cam with me all that often if a crew was needed. So I guess this is the best pick for me

[amica999]

Originally Posted by Cupcake

Thanks for the nice picture.
Here is my play.

you are more than welcome and thanks for the play. Looks interesting, what did you use, if I may ask?

[Cupcake]

I painted it in Painter.
It is an Abstract.

[amica999]

Thanks, Cupcake.

I made another one with mainly Impressionist....

[geepee52]

Such great pics to play with, I had to have another go.

Thanks
Grant

[Sweetlight]

Wow, yall sure love your flowers huh? Look at all the nice work.
This my friends is THE flower from hell. Since downloading the starter image it has been a comedy of errors. Yesterday I have brought my MacBook home and was working the image in there. Little did I know that I had disabled auto save so this of course is not an issue right? Unless you say ummmm........your house gets hit by lightning!!! And had I plugged the lap top into my power supply, well hell no. So what I considered a good amount of time relaxing and working the image, right down the drain. I had built this perfect little drip that was flowing so, so sweetly from the dangling petal on the right. I mean, pixel by pixel construction. GONE!
So today working on my desktop I tried and tried to duplicate said drip but no drip will ever be as perfect as that drip! So, what you have now is a few hours of painstaking work minus one beautiful drip of paint.........
Anyways, it happens.
c

[MiningArt]

You can never have to many flowers.

[amica999]

Grant, lovely version.
Chris, sorry to hear that you've lost your work - save often, save early - would have loved to see your previous version, more so because even your "substitute" looks brilliant
MA, interesting

Thank you all for playing

[Sweetlight]

Thanks Amica,
I don't get frustrated easy or often but I was just about ready to throw both systeme out the window. lol.
On the original I have created a nice black and white the dropped it on top of the color image. I then used a gradiient mask to run left to right. I tweaked it just right so it looked kind of like the coler was running out of the flower from left to right and that perfect littlle drip hund from the nice spout of a flower petal on the right.
Yes, I broke on of my cardinal rules about saving and saving. It was much like the butterfly effect as a very precise number of events had to happen perfectly, each one setting the next in motion like dominoes. No worries, I have my moments.

c

[Kraellin]

lovely photos! they are actually art all by themselves.

but, we, the destroyers of art, must alter, spindle, mutilate, fold and ... oh yeah... paint lol. sorry, weird day. i went a bit overboard here. i thought of doing these in a collage, but got lazy, so here they are in the raw. bear with, this will take two posts

[Kraellin]

here's the second series...

[amica999]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

lovely photos! they are actually art all by themselves.

but, we, the destroyers of art, must alter, spindle, mutilate, fold and ... oh yeah... paint lol. sorry, weird day. i went a bit overboard here. i thought of doing these in a collage, but got lazy, so here they are in the raw. bear with, this will take two posts

Thank you, Craig and wow! great versions, I really, really like these minimalistic white ones a lot. Well done!

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by palms1

Here i am,
you didnt think i would miss some flowers did you ?

first one is ahb

second is plastic wrap filter, i have never got on with this filter before but i think it had done good on these lovely lily's

third is with some added textures

sorry Amica but in a not very traditional mode today

Palms

Hi there...yes, I knew you would smell out (no pun intended, as they say) these flowers sooner or later.

Steve C.

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by ghealy

@ Amica: I had a FZ30. Loved that little guy. <smile> Now shoot with a Canon 5D. And thanks for the added info about linking and such.

@Steve. Oooh that is real nice! Well done.

Thanks much!

I am not much for flower pics as Palms will tell you, but once in a while I give them a whirl.

Steve C.

[MiningArt]

I had another go at the flowers. What I like most about this image is the rich green leaves, so gave green control of the picture.