day11_after.jpg
by love

Comment:
Wonderful transformation! Absolutely professional in every sense; I could easily see this on a magazine page!

the golden door day 8
by onesaint

Comment:
I'm a sucker for reflection images, what a great door!

hoover dam pano with door day 9
by onesaint

Comment:
What a great view! The colors are awesome! I actually like the dark shadows because it really gives me the sense that I am inside looking out.

Twirl
by Alicia

Comment:
Alicia, this is fantastic! I love the ghostly legs nearly in focus, they make a great anchor for the twirling skirt above.

Looking To Ride
by dafletchr

Comment:
Love the tones and the 'glowing' nature of this image!

Cry Baby
by dafletchr

Comment:
Wow, this is beautiful! Amazing paint job, first of all, REALLY looks 3D. I love your choice of making it b&w; love the angle too, with that low bumper it looks like the car is hovering above the ground. I really love everything about this image!

Five Blossoms
by citymars

Comment:
I love the vibrant pink and how they just seem to float in front of the background, very 3D and very cool! Nice arrangement of flowers and great detail!

Happy Happy Joy Joy
by citymars

Comment:
What a great shot! These have to be about the weirdest looking mannequins I've ever seen :-) What a great eye you have to capture them; I echo others' comments, love your DOF and great colors!!

Lance
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
Oh, if ONLY I had teeth that evenly aligned and white I too could be a star!! This is an ADORABLE doggy shot, and I'm not even so fond of dogs :-) Love the tongue slipping out behind the teeth, and what appears to be a hint of doggy toenails on his right side. This is sweet!!

Sudoku
by Melethia

Comment:
I love this image composition so much! Big cheese & wine, little guy, I was jarred into interest from the start :-) So I've spent some time playing, with it, hope you don't mind!
I guess what I'd most like to see would be more contrast... so I tried LucisArt 'whyeth' filter, then added some Redfield 'perfectum' to smooth it back down and got this:
which is not quite what I had envisioned.
Plus I got to thinking, not everyone has LucisArt and Redield and whatever flavor of the day plugins, so why not do it straight from PS? So I did a couple of different USM passes at different settings and a levels adjustment to get this:

Now I realize I have strayed from the norm, so why not keep straying??? So I strayed and made a colorized version based on the whyeth/perfectum version. The colorization was done by making duplicate layers of the original then applying colored filters to them then masking out the part of the image I didn't want colorized...probably a pretty clunky approach, but I've been having lots of fun with this technique and here is the result

Thanks, Deb, for posting such a wonderful image to play with!