Here (from the "failure pattern" set) is a converted from black and white
using only texturizebycolorarea filter and COLORS>Brightness & Saturation to
prepare the photo of a friend Garry Tabbert who lives and rocks in California now.

And fireworks from Nasa photograph on my birthday -
and it is nearly time for the cake!

Participating - on Mac without GMIC. Ran dinasset's TexturizeByColor then on one of the layers applied Distorts>Emboss. My hometown

Nice photo and I like that effect Dalia!

I will be near Brooklyn for a day, in August.

Dalia, I tried one with the SE version,
very different play with layers for this outcome.

This is the outcome that I tried to match from the non-SE version

I enjoy bright colors

And the darker ones can turn out nice also

Flying into LaGuardia very early, probably will go into Manhattan, might try to get to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden or even the Coney Sand Sculpture festival. Then at night I will be in Woodside, Queens until the wee hours, then back to La Guardia to catch a morning flight home. I have a list of things I can do during the day, but what I do depends on if the friend I meet in queens will be working that day or not. I had not planned on walking the Brooklyn Bridge as I have done that before.

Here are some new images for your enjoyment.

I was impressed by this one, but as .png is was 18meg

Those are all very nice, Animicule. It is amazing the clarity of the candy store.

gradients on a Manhattan building, was there once in 1968 or so.

Three for Tuesday!

I like specially the waterbird, even if the texture (which is nice per se) is not the most appropriate to the water, which becomes somehow "solid"

Perhaps this one is more liquid?

surely it is, better transformation IMO