Thank you for posting all 3 of those, Mags.

Here are some lilacs from a long time ago--last spring. (At least it seems like a long time ago with the winter we've been having.)



Done up as a pastel painting in paint.net.

Mags: I personally like the number 1 Marble Study. If you gaze into them, they look like... I dunno... embryos of "life" - new worlds, new aliens, new everything. Love that first one.

Picq: cool croc!

DepGary: oddly enough, I have pictures that look quite similar, except that they were taken through screen doors/windows and not adjusted in "paint" programs lol. I like that one : )

Swallowtail butterfly, seen wild in Croatia - though not quite like this

My eye...

Here is a picture of a front yard in Michigan as an oil painting.

Produced with Photoshop and a nice little plugin called Fractalius

Started off as a Chrysanthemum. Vectorised (bitmap tracing) and the background removed. Four coloured squares used as a new background. What a mess!

A distortion of Robin Hood statue in Nottingham.

A rich pattern:

I took this photo of my house from the back garden, using a piece of polarized plastic to distort the view. Quite an interesting effect I thought.



I may experiment more with this & see what else I can do with it.

love the pic retread would love to know about fractalius

You'd never know it but this started off as a super close-up of a computer monitor showing a white screen.

A kind of artform. This image is generated by a computer file analysing program. It gives each file a graphical representation. The larger the file, the larger the 'cushion' shape. All computers have many of the same types of files (the operating system files for instance), so a graphical representation everyone's computer files would look somewhat the same. However, nobody has all the same programs and number of files. That means that your computer file picture would look a bit different to everyone else's. A painting of the workings of a computer perhaps:

Indigo ferns!

Don't know what it is but my program and I drew it, all apart from the flowers. They were the big man's work.

That is pretty cool, tw. Looks like a sign--maybe advertising a flower show.

Here is a cardinal in blue with a blue frame.

A peony done in paint.net using the outline effect. This would make a nice stationary background. Not that I'd have a need for something like that. I'm just saying it would.

The view from Ireon (Samos)

Made with Topaz Simplify plugin in Photoshop



This is a photo of a steam train crank, manipulated in Flexify 2, then filtered with Redfield Fractalius, and the explosion done in Harry's Filters.

Final Countdown

Wow, these are so good.

Daffodil mozaic

very nice, the daffodils are almost like a cross stitch piece, and very colourful!



An original photograph ... orchids painted in PSP7 to appear like a watercolour painting ...

Yellow ragwort on a purple podded background!

My garden!

Morning Sky


Filters add drama to image