Giveaway is giving Tilt-shift Generator from Artensoft today (downloaded it but have not installed it yet), but that's not what I'm starting this thread for. They are also offering a 70% discount because of their GAOTD offering (today only) on their other programs and I've had my eye on Photo Collage since I saw Steve Job's collage a while back (they actually used Synthetik Studio Artist, but I don't have that much money; lol). $23.99 still isn't cheap, but I worked my tail off and made over $200 last Monday, so I said why not. lol

It took over an hour to add just the white background images from their site and also render the collage (my guess since I didn't clock it would be it took 25 minutes for the actually collage). Now if I used a smaller sample, it might have taken a lot less time (might test this later) but still happy I am and that's all that really matters. Now the image is huge so only providing a thumbnail with embedded link.

http://www.artensoft.com/ArtensoftPhoto ... allery.php

Sweet!
I saw the tilt shift today but for some reason that 70% discount i missed.
Grabbed it.

cool Lyle, Your dad is getting a lot of mileage out of this pic.

lol; you are right Molly. I usually like using the same target images for my renders just to prove to folks that I did it. Dad's been cool with it; even takes the ones that I print for him to his doctors visits (guess they think I'm a crazy guy; lol). Acquired a lot of cool toys over the years (most free) but some things you just have to pay for and this one, though Dr. di Blasi has a similar java based program, is the best that I've seen to create this result. Thanks to Rod I don't have to buy fractilus though (so thanks again Rod). Not too many tools left on my wish list, but there still is room for more toys as they become available and financially within my $100/year program budget (sans Photoshop but the sans is now permanent since the upgrades policy is just too insane now). Yes, I do use PS for ACR and pretty much only for RAW processing. Usually I get the upgrade every 3rd or so release, but they are mandating every release now and that's just not going to happen unless they create a release that fixes images on voice commands. lol