I first used auto levels and made a layer. Duplicated twice. Desaturated one of them. Used hue mode to blend. This makes it red and grey mixture. Blended this with the original layer. Applied Unsharp mask....

Nice job everyone. I feel that in future Quilt challenges, we should have a theme which everyone follows. In this image, I made it a night scene, gina has made a monochrome and some others have adopted a artistic approach. This way, the final picture still looks like an ensemble of unrelated images,...

The photos have captured the mood right. Nice job

Gina had introduced a strange looking creature in the middle of a park... So I had to call the police and the local newsmen
It was too tempting to add more and more to the alien story, but I had to stop. Nice work everyone. Count how many times we have flipped the image!!

doug, exactly what I was asking.
A new post or an edit add some new info to the thread. People should be aware that a change occurred(atleast in some cases,like the art-tag example i gave).Does my reasoning sound correct?

I observed that a new edit done to an old message does not appear in the "Last 24 hours" search. I usually click on this link in the floating window that appears on the left of the screen. When Art-tag status is updated in the thread during the progress of the game, it does not appear through...

LOL! true to the name of the thread, your interpretation is really creative...

Paul,
I sent a pm yesterday. Did you read it?Who are the players?I thought it was a nice idea last time, to update the list of players!

Svsg

Hi, I am from bangalore. Curious to know if any of you is from India. I could see a couple of indian sounding names, though not sure. If so, from which part of the country and are you into retouching as a profession/hobby?

Jch, Great work, I am going to try replicating that effect.

Mine is a sketch. This procedure works well for most images in Gimp.
1)Dup,desaturate, reduce the o/p levels (pull the right slider towards left till the image becomes barely visible.Pull the left slider towards right...

very nice painted look. Great Job!

Attempted a sketch for the first time. Added noise and textures to the de-saturated image and merged with the original in overlay mode.

Svsg...

Hue/sat, Levels,Blending modes.
Canvas,Blur.

Svsg...

Beautiful work from everyone, I especially liked the water surface with vortex around the duck and the whale tail. In the second round the pearls changed the look of the image, nice effect.

I added the girl on the duck.this was taken from some pony riding photo, I had to paint a little,...

some solutions when you don't have layers,curves and levels.

1) I haven't used PE, so this reply is based on what you have described. If you have selection tool(even free hand select will do), use that along with brightness/contrast.

2)If you have windows, it comes with...