Started a thread at DPR's Retouch forum but thought you all would like to play too. Earlier, I made a quick quip to the Wal-Mart lady greeter while she was sorting and dumping some roses (said, is that one for me?), and she gave me this one (which is now in a jar of water). Thought I would share this one with you all for play. It's SOOC with EXIF intact (so maybe on the bland side), but I won't share the RAW (not going to share a 20MByte file; sorry). If you want to play, I believe the jpg is good enough.

Source Image: http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/1357/l1000438.jpg

Seamless Texture (click on thumbnail for it for it's Deviant):



And, here is the Rose Ball:



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I created another seamless texture w/ the help of Fractal Trace for this more random like sphere result.

Droste/Fractal Trace Texture (click on the thumbnail for it's Deviant):

Wow that is really cool Lyle!

Thanks Rod.

Neat effect. My camera will take RAW but I never used it because I couldn't find much to support it but now days there is a lot. RAWTherapee, photivo and Xnview all work with it. RAW and TIF for me are the same size file (23 meg) so I'm still deciding which way to go. I know RAW has a lot of advantages, I guess I just need to make the move. My little handy dandy pocket sized fixed focus spare camera only does JPG, it will do like 3000 of them and I have to batch convert them every time I take them off the memory chip but that's not a big deal. This concludes my pointless babble, carry on.

I threw a little Red-field, and GMIC together and came up with this.
Sorta pretty.

Ahh i see i didn't get quite all the white spots out.
Oh well.

I like it with the white! Clean it up a bit, the white is a bit finicky in places and have it huge and I would love it as a desktop background

Man I'm jealous of you fractilus owners. lol

Really like that one Rod.

it does some neat things but it requires some fooling with to get it perfect.