Lotus Blossom

[Swampy]

Excellent, Dave! Very sharp and crisp with wonderful detail in the petals.

[grannysdc]

Beautiful Flower!
Embossed then used some actions I had forgotten about..Sandpaper, Goldflakes, etc..

[Kraellin]

dee dee, i like that. good replacement of the background.

lk, very cool.

and dave, very simple, very clean. nice

[sharynideas]

Craig,
Thanks for the info on the sparkles. I haven't tried any of the filterforge filters yet. I've looked at it but really don't know anything about filterforge.

As to what I did to get the tile, I wish I knew. I fiddled over a couple of days, off and on. I know I used high pass filter at the beginning, and finished off with a bevel, but what I did in between is not so evident. I get to trying something, undoing it, trying something else until I get a look I like, but then I can't duplicate it. No self-discipline, I guess.
Shari

[Swampy]

Thank you, Craig. :-)

[palms1]

Great one to see resurrected messed around with some textures ! ! !

Palms

[Kraellin]

shari,

that's fine. i do the same thing all the time every once in a while i go back and look at something i did a year ago and go 'how the heck did i do that?'

nice, palms

[lkroll]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

lk, very cool.

Thanks Craig. Forgot to mention that I also used EyeCandy III Jiggle preset to get the random waviness (since angled brushstrokes alone is way too straight).

[Ziaphra]

...and another!

[Kraellin]

well, i'm not quite done with this one yet. applied my 'silver surfer' filter to this one and liked the results

[Kraellin]

and here's another using a filter forge filter called 'spherize'.

[Kraellin]

and, if you happen to like abstract distortions...

[palms1]

Very nice Craig especially your silver surfer which is aptly named as it does have a liquid feel to it

Palms

[Swampy]

Craig, that filter looks like it has great potential. Would love to see it on just the flower.

[Kraellin]

thanks, palms yes, i like the surfer filter also. it's an alteration of one of steviej's (from the filter forge forum) filter forge filters. he's done a lot of chrome/metal/glass type filters.

and thanks, dee dee i also thought the same thing as i was working with it, but was too lazy last night to do a cutout. i might be able to alter the filter to select only certain hues or brights/darks, though, and do it that way. wouldnt work on every picture, of course, but could help on some.