Tired of Dead Ends?
by TooCool

Comment:
I glad to se some people using "non-pretty" pictures; this is appropriately "gritty" for your topic. For some reason the inner, light border by the brick bothers me a little, maybe because it almost but doesn't quite mimic the mortar lines. I'd like to see this with the inner black border touching the bricks.
Also, you have a typo or syntax error -- the next-to--last word should be "than" (but I don't deduct for typos!).

Frozen Delight
by jrs915

Comment:
Yum!

A Vase Filled With Water
by Refocused

Comment:
Cool Op-Art, even if it makes my eyes hurt ....

Glen Lake deer tracks....
by undieyatch

Comment:
Now THAT's a U-Turn!

Simple Pleasures
by Cam

Comment:

Originally posted by wkmen: I laughed when I saw this photo, and laughed a little more when I wrote my original comment. But I was just cracking up big time reading all of the comments below. Hilarious! And you started it...how did your model keep a straight face?

Ditto. Hope your GF has recovered ...

Sphere and Fractals
by GeneralE

Comment:

Originally posted by Rooster: THIS A GREAT MOODY SHOT! oops! Sorry about the caps

I think all caps is fine in this case ...

Here's a link to the "original" image before applying the color effect to the sphere. The "Fractals" in the title refers to the bamboo branches and leaves more than to the pattern on the sphere. Overall I was happy with the response, or perhaps the lack of what I expected to be a "Too Digital Art!" response ... Thanks for your comments!

Winter Wonderland
by Everyday Renee

Comment:
In Photoshop 5, I first selected the entire image, then used the Edit>Transform>Perspective tool. This gives you handles like the crop or scale tool, but is not contrained to a rectangle. I dragged the bottom handles directly sideways until the two main posts appeared parallel (109.4% of the original width). I then cropped the excess background this steps created. Unfortunately, I then noticed it needed about a 1 degree rotation; I try to always combine the crop and rotate steps by rotating the crop rectangle. Because this created more unwanted background, I just added a thick stroke in a contrasting color (not the one I'd recommend, but one you can see!) instead of cropping further.
(Tick ... tick ... tick ...)
OK, that border looked pretty bad (I'm leaving it on the thumbnail so you can see) so I've selected the border with the magic wand, feathered the selection 8 pixels two times, then filled the resultant selection with white to create (what I hope is) a frosty effect, and then added a couple of pixels of black around the outside to make it show up on a white display page.

I've also been a little sloppy today, and have been re-saving the image in JPEG instead of Photoshop or TIFF format, so I'm sorry if the image quality has gone down a bit.

Avian Contours
by ScottK

Comment:
A good idea; looks a little bit oversharpened, creating a slight halo on the top/back.

Ornate
by Spanish_Grease

Comment:
Creative use of refraction, reminiscent of the classic vase/face double image.

Tree Forms
by stuart

Comment:
I have a shot of something like this .. they have both great shapes and textures.