[TwinANJ]

I took this picture this year when the trumpet flowers were in bloom. Have fun!

Jean

[TwinANJ]

Well this is my version. Used layers...Glowing edge, Blur, Poster edge.
Lighting effect and Spherize. Used Sandstone texture and Glass.

Jean

[TwinbNJ]

Hey Jean - love what you did.

Here's mine.

[TwinbNJ]

Had to give this one another try!

[TwinANJ]

Sissy.... both very nice. I really like the contrast from the flower and the background on the second. Thnx for submitting your versions of my picture.

Jean

[Blacknight]

Is this a sister act or can I play too?

I enlarged this to 800 x 600, and did a find edges, desaturated (on a layer copy) set to multiply. Flattened and played with hue/sat to lighten. Copied again and did an emboss, set to overlay. Flattened, copied and set to difference (which made it "dark" outside). Played with hue/sat until the details I wanted were more visible (the flower and plant hanger). Flattened and played with hue/sat until I got something I liked.

[pjb]

They all look great!!


selected all white and deleted
selected all wood and put a pencil2 filter on
selected each flower and colored.
merged all flowers and put a bevel and emboss then a color overlay

[TwinANJ]

BK...Of course you can play
Your version is great. I like the change.

pjb...nice work on making an array of color on the flowers.
Thank you both for sharing your versions of my flowers.

Jean

[tyeise]

I thought I'd play with Paint Shop Pro's new balls and bubbles filter on this one. I used a cutout of the flowers both as a bump map and as an environment map.

For the background, I laided down a gradient, and then over that the original image with the simple/half wrap filter.

Sort of fun playing.

[TwinANJ]

Theise....Way COOL! Did you download the filters from Photoshop? It looks like something I would like to play with. Thank you for using the new filters on my flowers it looks great!

Jean

[BillC]

I really like these flower challenges! A lot of creativity displayed.
Jean - thanks for sharing the pic, and I like your first version with the deep textures and dark colors
Jill - love the softness of your watercolor
BK - WILD (blue flowers have to be considered 'art'!)
PJB - I really like the pastel effect - nice job
Tyeise - your creativity is showing - obviously you had fun with this.
Here's mine ..
Did a color select on the red flower ... copied the selection to a transparent layer ... added emboss, drop shadow ... and new layer with a black background .. then played around!
Ran thru Neat Image to really take out detail...(somehow this ended up as less than 25K file size)
Bill C

[TwinbNJ]

Oh Bill that looks so neat

[TwinANJ]

Bill...Great job. I love how vibrant the red is to the black background.

Jean

[tyeise]

Jean,

I use Paint Shop Pro 8. Balls and bubbles is one of their new built in filters. Everything I used on this one was built in. Thanks for sharing the wonderful flowers to play with.

Tyeise